COVID Killed Cohesiveness for AEC Firms: Here’s How to Get it Back By: Engineering Management Institute “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” – Babe Ruth,… [Read More]
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AEC Talent Acquisition in 2023 and Beyond…
AEC Talent Acquisition in 2023 and Beyond… By: AECIQ Talent acquisition has long been approached in a reactionary fashion – with a “we need a hire tomorrow” mentality. This results in high stress for hiring teams and fragmented processes toward identifying quality candidates and getting the right people in the right roles. The shortcomings associated… [Read More]
A Game Changing Employee Engagement Tool
We all know that we need to communicate better. The vast majority of dysfunctional relationships are the result of (or breach) in communications. In all organizations, communication plays a central role in a well-functioning (or poorly-functioning) relationship. Leaders need to communicate their visions for the company to employees, and managers and employees need communication skills… [Read More]
This Valentine’s Day, Get Engaged – to Your Employees!
The 3 C’s of Engagement Diamond rings are evaluated on the 3 C’s of cut, clarity, and color. I see three Cs of Employee Engagement that all leaders should embrace: Communication is the cornerstone of engagement: Recognize the power of a robust communication plan, one built on clarity, consistency, and transparency. With today’s technological advances,… [Read More]
Guest Blog: A Formula for Ensuring Training Transfers Back to the Job
A Formula for Ensuring Training Transfers Back to the Job By: Anthony Fasano, P.E., Engineering Management Institute Human Resources and Learning & Development professionals are often tasked with the job of finding training or building training programs for their firms. This is extremely difficult to do in a world where everyone learns differently, and everyone… [Read More]
Employee Engagement is not a “program”
By: Bob Kelleher Employee Engagement is more than a program; it entails a cultural shift — a change in how things are done and communicated from the top to the bottom of an organization. Engagement cannot be shunted to the end of every meeting, where it will stand a higher chance of being given short… [Read More]
Guest Blog: Top 6 HR Technology Trends to Watch in 2019
Top 6 HR Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 By: Amy Champigny, Deltek Gartner’s 2017 CEO survey found that CIOs must scale up digital business initiatives. Digitalization was on the periphery of most CEOs only a few years ago. The time for transformation is now. No matter which way we look at this finding, it… [Read More]
The War for Talent is Over, and THE TALENT WON!
By Bob Kelleher 2019 is shaping up as the year your firms’ employees are finally in the driver’s seat. We’re in a perfect storm of a shift in the employee / employer – supply / demand curve: Unemployment levels are near record lows, businesses are growing, and thousands of boomers are moving into retirement EVERY… [Read More]
Author/Speaker Bob Kelleher Shares 10 Tips for Hiring the B.E².S.T Workers
Author / Speaker Bob Kelleher Shares 10 Tips for Hiring the B.E².S.T Workers By Bob Kelleher, Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Founder of The Employee Engagement Group Is your company experiencing high turnover rates? Are you struggling to keep top talent engaged? Most companies tend to blame turnover on engagement, but they don’t have an… [Read More]
The State of Employee Engagement and Why Organizations Have Been Looking at Engagement All Wrong
Bob Kelleher recently spoke with Anthony Fasano from the Engineering Management Institute about the importance of employee engagement and how organizations have been looking at it all wrong. Bob also provides some tips on having empathy in the workplace, and how by doing so, you can help with the overall success of your organization. A… [Read More]