5 Tactics to Support Your Employee Engagement Strategy [Part 4]
It used to be a joke that if you had a job title change to ‘Special Projects’ you were headed out the back door of your employment. Maybe the joke still lives. However, I have met plenty of very talented problem solvers having a job title the same or similar to...
5 Tactics to Support Your Employee Engagement Strategy [Part Three]
When you were taught how to swim did you experience the shock and awe of being forced to enter the water while consumed in fear? Or were you first coached on the pool deck and acclimated psychologically and physically for the inevitable entry into the unknown...
Big ROI for Employee Engagement Strategy
The Interview Client: Charles Clayton, Learning & Development Consultant Industry: Healthcare provider Location: Dallas, TX, USA Organization: Baylor Scott & White serves North and Central Texas through 46 hospitals, more than 500 patient care sites, more...
5 Tactics to Support Your Employee Engagement Strategy [Part Two]
Welcome Aboard. Sink or Swim With On-boarding. Imagine you are marooned on an island inhabited by a tribe of friendly people but culturally vastly different to what you are used to. All of the norms of this tribe are not threatening but far outside your patterns of...
5 Tactics to Support Your Employee Engagement Strategy [Part One]
Employee engagement has been at the forefront of business topics for a couple of years now at least. I have found a number of definitions and interpretations of employee engagement and I really like this article in Forbes by Kevin Kruse, [@Kruse]. Kevin Kruse uses...
On-boarding is mission critical
Organizations spend enormous amounts of time and resources to hire a new employee. According to Bersin by Deliotte, 22% of new hires quit their jobs in the first 45 days of employment. Their research goes on to say a poor on-boarding process is the reason for new...
People Join Organizations and Quit Managers
We have heard this statement over and over “People join organizations and quit managers.” But is there any truth to it? According to two different research reports, one reason people leave organizations is due to the boss. Kenexa research shows that 30% of turnover...
Special Event – Development Drives Retention
According to CareerBuilder.com, 21% of employees plan on finding a new job in 2014. Are you ready to lose 1 out of 5 of your employees? I don’t think so because you know that turnover is costly. There are the obvious costs – hiring, interviewing, and training...
3 Major Causes of Poor Execution in Organisations
One of the most commonly mentioned issues by leaders of organizations in my client community is the lack of execution and follow through. This critical issue spans from lack of follow up calls by the sales team to entire projects stalled or abandoned due to lack of...
Communicate Your Way to a Successful LMS Roll-Out
We are very fortunate to welcome some great new clients to our community. As we commence these implementation projects we have been engaged in conversations about how best our new clients can develop a communications strategy to ensure a successful ‘go-live.’ I have...
Developing New Leaders
DOTS Talent Solutions has added an extraordinary new toolkit of modules to our existing library of over 200+ business titles. Our new toolkit consists of 20 modules designed to help new leaders and managers succeed in positions of authority. Our new range of modules...
The Case for Performance Support
Performance support is not instructor led or e-learning. Performance support is all about providing easy access to knowledge and information that people need to execute their roles. Performance support delivers information at the point of need. Performance support...
7 Tips to Creating Great Performance Reviews in DOTS LMS
Make performance reviews an effective contributor to your organisation's health. You can utilise features within the DOTS LMS to help you create and deliver performance reviews without the dread and and trepidation so often part of this business process. Don’t...
Values Need More Than Posters [8 Keys to an effective values framework]
Values can be effective in sustaining a great organisational culture as well as building a new one. Values have had their proponents and detractors and I will admit to being a bit cynical about the use of values in an organisation to drive a cultural change. I have...
9 Tips for Effective Performance Management
9 Tips for Improving Performance Management 1. Performance management is a process and not an event. Include performance management in one-to-one meetings between managers and employees throughout the year. This can include discussions on barriers to...
DOTS LMS v11: Prepare for Roll-Out
All of our clients are receiving invitations to our first round of v11 webinars to help showcase our latest version of DOTS LMS. There is a lot to show and we will follow up this first round of webinars with focused sessions for each of our existing clients and the...
The Next DOTS LMS Webinar
Welcome to our 2014 webinar information series. These webinars are offered monthly on a range of topics to help you get the most out of your DOTS LMS. This online webinar is the final webinar in the series on 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Managing Your...
Align Performance With Organisational Goals
The process outlined here represents a project undertaken by a client to improve its management of development and performance. There are limited resources available outside the budget allocated to a learning and performance software platform and existing team...
Vado Defined
This is a guest post by Cindy Pascale, Director of Vado Inc. Vado is a partner with DOTS Talent Solutions to bring the innovative Vado course modules to Australia. Besides a beautiful city in Italy, what is Vado, and why would anyone give an e-learning courseware...
3 Factors to Develop a Performance Culture
In our business we have the pleasure of working with some very successful organisations and each has a culture that oozes high performance when you walk in their offices. You can see clues in the way people interact; looking at each other in the eyes, greeting people...