Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership

As explained in  John Baldoni 's, book,  Lead With Purpose ,  Marshall Goldsmith  suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these  six questions : Where do you think we should be going? Where do you think you and your part of the business should be going? What do you think you're doing well? If you were the leader, what ideas would you have for you? How can I help? What suggestions or ideas do you have for me?

Business leaders who wonder whether they should conduct an employee survey should think about these  five good reasons  for conducting surveys, as recommended by John Kador and Katherine J. Armstrong in their book,  Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1.  To discover what employees are thinking and doing  – in a nonthreatening survey environment. You will learn what motivates employees and what is important to them. 2.  To prioritize the organization’s actions based on objective results  – rather than relying on subjective information or your best guesses. 3.  To provide a benchmark  – or a snapshot of your employees and their attitudes at a certain point of time that you can then compare to future surveys to spot trends. 4.  To communicate the importance of key topics to employees  – by communicating with employees the survey results that shows your organization is listening to employees. 5.  To collect the...

Over the past year, 1,000 people who left an employer told author Leigh Branham the reasons for why they left.   Those reasons, captured in a post-exit survey, contribute greatly to the new release of the second edition of Branham's best-seller, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave .       The original edition was based on feedback from nearly 20,000 surveys.    The updated book includes insights regarding some additional new survey questions , such as: Was there a triggering event? How long did it take until you actually left? What could your employer have done to make you want to change your mind and stay? Did you look for another job while still employed. Eye-opening highlights from the book reveal that: The cost of losing the average employee is one times their annual salary .  That means that  company with three hundred employees, an average employee salary of $35,000, and a voluntary...

Business leaders who wonder whether they should conduct an employee survey should think about these five good reasons for conducting surveys, as recommended by John Kador and Katherine J. Armstrong in their book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1. To discover what employees are thinking and doing – in a nonthreatening survey environment. You will learn what motivates employees and what is important to them. 2. To prioritize the organization’s actions based on objective results – rather than relying on subjective information or your best guesses. 3. To provide a benchmark – or a snapshot of your employees and their attitudes at a certain point of time that you can then compare to future surveys to spot trends. 4. To communicate the importance of key topics to employees – by communicating with employees the survey results that shows your organization is listening to employees. 5. To collect the combined brainpower and ideas of the workforce – that somet...