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Peter Stark has trained thousands of managers and employees around the world on how to increase morale and create places where employees love to come work. His new book, Engaged!, focuses on how, in this troubling economy and anxiety filled job market, do managers get employees to stay engaged?
Peter took the time to speak with us about his new book, insight to his research, and his favorite engagement strategies.
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Filed under: In the News, Leadership on March 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Forbes.com
These days it feels like we should be grateful just to be employed. But that doesn’t mean it’s always easy to go into the office–especially in the aftermath of layoffs and the midst of uncertainty. Peter Barron Stark and Jane Flaherty, the authors of several books about corporate leadership, have just written Engaged: How Leaders Build Organizations Where Employees Love to Come to Work. In it, they offer advice on how managers can get their staffers enthusiastic about being on the the job–and doing their best work…
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Filed under: In the News, Leading Change on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
YourHRdigest.com
There may be 50 ways to leave a lover but there are only 2 ways an employee leaves an organization: physically, as in moving on to a competitor, which is manageable and the company hires a great employee to take over the job; or mentally. It is this second one that strikes fear into the heart of every manager: the employee who mentally quits, but stays with the organization…
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Filed under: Articles, In the News, Leading Change, Managing Layoffs, Newsletters on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
BendWeekly.com
Although workers can’t control the economic downturn, they can try to keep a positive attitude and play a part in the optimistic influence needed to maintain a company’s success.
Peter Barron Stark — author of the forthcoming book, “Engaged: How Leaders Build Organizations Where Employees Love to Come to Work” — recommends that workers attempt to envision what can be controlled in the office: the results from assignments, work relationships…
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Filed under: Articles, In the News, Managing Layoffs on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Reuters.com
With layoffs happening all around her, automotive worker Ellen Whittington is doing what many worried Americans are doing: trying to find a safer, better job before she loses the one she has.
Strange as it may seem, changing careers or trying to upgrade jobs amid a recession and millions of layoffs may be just the thing to do — to jump before you get pushed.
“Some organizations use downturns to go out and capture the top talent in the industry from competitors that are hurting,” said Peter Stark…
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Filed under: In the News, Managing Layoffs on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
ManageSmarter.com
No matter how troubling the times are, the bottom line rules business and motivated employees move the bottom line.
Why? Motivated employees improve your product and your service, they want to come to work. Even better, their positive attitude is contagious. These workers achieve results, which earns money for your company. Furthermore, they want to stay with you because they feel fulfilled in their work. You are their employer of choice. Employees with an above-average attitude toward their work will generate higher customer satisfaction, higher productivity and higher profits for their organizations…
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Filed under: Articles, In the News on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
IndustryWeek.com
According to a study in 2007 by the Manufacturing Performance Institute, over 70% of the 984 manufacturers surveyed expected their revenues to increase. What a difference two years can make! Today, manufacturers are one of the leading industries dealing with managing labor costs in an economy experiencing headwinds that most of us have never seen before. With health care and retirement benefit costs increasing, consumer and business demands for products decreasing, and the challenge of gaining credit and raising capital, lay-offs have become the best viable business option for many manufacturers.
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Filed under: In the News, Leading Change, Managing Layoffs on March 24th, 2009 No Comments »
1to1media
There is no denying times are tough. Consumers and businesses are less likely to open their wallets as freely as in the past. For salespeople, this reality comes with the added stress of more clients saying “no” even as quotas remain constant. How do you keep a sales force motivated and positive in such challenging times? Read the article . . .
Filed under: In the News on March 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Over the last two weeks, people who represent us in the legislature, all the way up to President Obama, have spent thousands of hours in outrage because it has become public knowledge that AIG paid their executives a total of $165 million in bonuses. These bonuses were paid to the same executives that helped dig AIG into a deep hole they could not climb out of. Congress is outraged. We all have a reason to be outraged. Congress spent hours and hours to create a new law that would place a 93 percent tax on the bonuses so they could take the money back. I am the first to agree that the bonuses were inappropriate in this situation. What I am not in agreement with is how long this topic has been discussed and debated when 100 percent of our Nation’s leaders focus should be on getting the economy back on track. To put this in perspective, the taxpayers have spent $170 billion to keep AIG alive. The $165 million spent on bonuses is roughly 1000 times less than the $170 billion the government has provided. This would be like loaning your brother $1,000 and being outraged about how he spent $1.00 of the $1,000 you gave him for something other than the original purpose.
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Filed under: Peter's Blog on March 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
