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This Study of 400,000 People Reveals the 1 Reason Employees Work Harder (and It's Not Pay or Benefits or Culture Decks)

This Study of 400,000 People Reveals the 1 Reason Employees Work Harder (and It's Not Pay or Benefits or Culture Decks) | :: The 4th Era :: | Scoop.it

Forget slogans and posters. Forget mission statements. Forget culture decks. A survey of over 400,000 people across the U.S. found that when employees believe promotions are managed effectively, they are more than two times as likely to give extra effort at work -- and to plan for having a long-term future with their company.

 

But wait, there's more: When employees believe promotions are managed effectively, they are more than five times as likely to believe their leaders act with integrity.

 

The result? At those companies, employee turnover rates are half that of other companies in the same industry. Productivity, innovation, and growth metrics outperform the competition. For public companies, stock returns are almost three times the market average.


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Jerry Busone's curator insight, January 12, 2018 8:17 AM

Great Study of 400k employees . So don't waste time on that culture deck ...Promote your best people... if teams matter promote the best team player... if productivity matters promote the best at that... the companies that do this have less turnover, more innovation and better engagement . Carrier Guidance big key. #ADPELEFY18 #offthebenchleadership  #Workhappy #hellowork

Cammie Dunaway's curator insight, January 12, 2018 1:14 PM

Great insight "When employees believe promotions are managed effectively, they are more than five times as likely to believe their leaders act with integrity."

Carolyn Rowe's curator insight, January 15, 2018 12:34 PM
For all for all who are looking for ammunition in the effort to get talented team members promoted.  
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Creating Slack: The Quick Scheduling Trick To Make Your Week Most Productive ~ Fast Company

Creating Slack: The Quick Scheduling Trick To Make Your Week Most Productive ~ Fast Company | :: The 4th Era :: | Scoop.it

by Laura Vanderkam


"I got in the habit of leaving Fridays open a few years ago when I realized that packing my calendar too tightly was an invitation to disaster. I’d write down my priorities for the week and assign each priority a time, but inevitably, things would come up. These could be not-so-great things, like fitting in a doctor visit, or good things: a quick-turn-around assignment at a new publication, an invitation to a lunch I wouldn’t want to miss. To use Donald Rumsfeld’s phrase, these were “known unknowns.” I didn’t know what would come up, but I knew something would.


"Having open Fridays, I decided, would let me bump projects there. My priorities wouldn’t have to roll over into the next week, which probably had its own deadlines."

Jim Lerman's insight:

Wonderful suggestion! Not just creating a slack day, but slack periods within a couple of days per week. Scheduling slack time is kind of like the "gift of time" one experiences when someone cancels an appointment at the last minute.

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