Which comes first employee engagement or financial success? Those of us who have spent many man-hours in understanding employee engagement, developing and implementing engagement programmes and measuring the results may be tempted to render the above statement a rhetorical one. It could be argued that financially successful companies have more money to spend on their...
The Psychology of Change
Dr. Leachim Semaj is a Jamaican psychologist and consultant who I had the fortune to interview a few weeks ago after he presented at the Jamaica Employer’s Federation conference on the topic – Mastering the Psychology of Change: Learning from the Past, Managing the Present, Reading The Future. He’s also a member of CaribHRForum and...
Workplace Civility
The term “Workplace Civility” came up at one of our subsidiaries operational meetings and it sparked my interest. We may argue that humans have evolved or progressed but from a conceptual perspective it seems we have come full circle in a kind of pseudo-progression. The insurance company Geico says “even a cave man could do...