Leadership Tips for Cross-Silo Success

ASTD Staff

Management silos are where innovation dissolves in layers of hierarchy. Great business ideas go wasted every day because employees don’t know what to do with them, and those employees are afraid of wasting company resources trying to figure it out. Here, Nancy Dea... More »

New case shows legal risks of papering fired employees file

ASTD Staff

When preparing to terminate a worker, you want to be able to produce the most solid documentation to defend a potential lawsuit. Just make sure supervisors know to document employee performance and behavior at the time it occurs—not just before or a... More »

Employee Recognition Linked to Better Business Performance

ASTD Staff

Research from human resources firm Bersin & Associates suggests that companies that excel at employee recognition are on average 12 times more likely than their peers to generate strong business results, including higher profitability and better market leadership po... More »

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line

ASTD Staff

More than 100 studies have affirmed the connection between employee engagement and performance, but the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study — 32,000 employees across 30 countries — makes the most powerful, bottom line case yet for the connection betwee... More »

Do Your Employees Trust You?

ASTD Staff

In any relationship trust is an important factor and this is especially true in the business of managing people. More »