In this post, you’ll learn the core differences and similarities between employee engagement, motivation, and job satisfaction. The Performance Triangle offers a powerful visualization of the interplay of factors that impact your team’s performance. By leveraging this model, you can identify the specific areas that need improvement and develop a strategy to achieve excellence. By […]
The Transition: Employee to Managerial Role
Are exceptional employees bound for managerial success? Not necessarily. While being deemed a “good employee” may increase the likelihood of promotion to a management position, being a good manager requires a distinct set of personal traits, skills and values. In general, managerial roles require a unique skill set, often emphasizing “soft” skills. Being an employee […]
What Do Elon Musk and Bill Gates Have in Common?
GPT and Q7 offer an unexpected answer to this question. I asked ChatGPT to help me build Elon Musk’s values profile, using my Q7 questionnaire, and then compared it to the profile calculated earlier using crowdsourced responses. I was pleasantly surprised that the two profiles matched up to 95%! Getting almost identical results with a […]
Student Loan Forgiveness Degree
Student loan forgiveness has been trending for quite some time, and we wanted to support something positive. So we decided to source a new work of art devoted to this sensitive issue and display it at the COMA gallery. Today we are thrilled to present a new exhibit that will be a worthy addition to your […]
How to Measure Employee Engagement
Whether you are building a team from scratch or planning to improve the engagement of the existing team, you need to start measuring and monitoring employee engagement as soon as possible. This is Part 3 of “How to improve employee engagement”. Here you will learn why measuring employee engagement is important and how to set up […]
Best Employers and Top Universities, Part 2
Do you need a university degree? Here’s what may save you a lot of money and a few precious years of your life: To build a successful career in the Knowledge Economy, you most likely don’t need a degree. Only 300 out of 2900 large organizations made the final list of Canada’s Best Employers – […]
This Show Must Go Off!
My second encounter of the third kind with Rogers was shorter than the first – but appallingly useless.
Best Employers and Top Universities, Part 1
Would you like to work for the Best Employer? There are several considerations to be made before rushing in your CV. If you’re reading this blog, you probably belong to an endangered species, and these considerations could change your career. Forbes has released its 2023 list of Canada’s Best Employers. Only 300 companies out of […]
Employee Engagement: Practical Steps to Take Now
This is Part 2 of “How to improve employee engagement”. In Part 1, we discussed “What is employee engagement” and how much it costs to not have an engaged workforce (more than you might imagine). In this part, we introduce the first practical steps you should take to improve your team’s engagement. While searching for […]
Google-Boggle
In the knowledge economy, large bloated organizations are not sustainable. Google is just one of them.