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If you Hope to be a Magnet for Talented Employees, Think Personal, not Personnel.
According to a recent article in The Vancouver Sun, November 18, 2006 you need to think personal, not personnel. That's the word from KPMG's chief human resources officer, Beth Wilson.  " The most important way to attract the best and brightest employees is to recognize the importance of individual differences and to focus on their culture, programs and policies in a way that will be flexible and support those individuals as they develop through their career.  That's hard to do, but there aren't enough companies doing that right now."
And KPMG should know what they are talking about when it comes to attracting and retaining talent as this year, for the fourth time, they have been named as one of Canada's top 100 employers.  According to Wilson one of the areas that can put companies ahead of the pack when attracting and retaining employees is the building of relationships within the workforce.  "There is a significant difference from the the older generation," said Wilson.  "A lot centres around individuals and relationships.  They're really looking for an individualized employment experience.  They want to connect with the people they work with.  Is someone focused with helping them with their career development, coaching, getting good career feedback, etc?"
"These issues are important", she states, "because there is a war for talent and knowledge workers can go wherever they want. Unless you are seen as an employer of choice you won't attract or retain the kind of people who will develop and execute the business strategy that puts you ahead of the pack.  You will meet fewer knowledge workers and they will have more choices."  
High Performance Employees couldn't agree more with her assessment.  Jeff Campbell, President of High Performance Employees, thinks that Beth Wilson got it exactly right. "That's why we offer such revolutionary new products  such as our "Make your Company An Even Better Place to Work" Relationship Management Service. Check it out for yourself. It's one of the most unique and cost effective HR tools to diagnose the state of the relationships in your organization.  If you want to resolve workplace conflict in your business or organization then try it and you'll be amazed."
Make your company An Even Better Place to Work
We've recently added even more information to the site for those of you interested in learning how to make your company An Even Better Place to Work. Now, you can download a PDF document detailing the An Even Better Place to Work program. Feel free to print the document for distribution among company decision makers toward facilitating incorporation of the program. We've also added a brief PowerPoint presentation further highlighting the program process, rationale, and benefits. A personal message about the An Even Better Place to Work program from Jeff Campbell, President of High Performance Employees,
I feel that this is absolutely THE best product on the market today for evaluating your teams and individuals and for showing you the information you need to know to make a good team GREAT. Just look at what it tracks automatically for you:
  • Satisfaction @ Work Diagnostic
  • Openness @ Work Diagnostic
  • Feedback @ Work Diagnostic
  • Motivation @ Work Diagnostic
  • Difference Management @ Work Diagnostic
  • Ownership @ Work Diagnostic
  • Conflict @ Work Diagnostic
With all this new information coming your way your teams cannot help but improve dramatically across the board. I am confident you will love the results the program provides and am willing to risk my own money on it by offeringa free trial. We will help you with everything that is required to get you started. If, after the trial, you decide that you like the program we'll be more than happy to help you implement it at on a permanent basis. If you decide that you don't like it then you have lost absolutely nothing. Take a moment to contact us for your free trial. I know you will be delighted with the results.
-Jeff Campbell Contact us now to learn more about how to make your company a great place to work!
Press Release: Do Your Employees Smile When You Walk Into the Room, or When You Leave the Room?
Just about every CEO/company realizes the importance of honest feedback from employees at all levels, but very few are actually receiving it as the filtering which naturally happens when lower level management pass on comments from staff is nearly impossible to get around. With recent statistical averages pointing to at least 20% workforce-dissatisfaction (and even higher turnover rates), it is invaluable to find out what exactly is going on in the thoughts and feelings of employees. If your employees smile when you walk into the room, then you're definitely doing something right. But what if they don't? Jeff Campbell, director of High Performance Employees, knows what it takes to achieve success in business, be it a large corporation or a fledging enterprise: it is the people who make up that business - plain and simple. But he also knows it's not just any people who drive success; it is the people who are recognized for their individual contributions to the group, who are encouraged to apply their strengths to the big picture. High Performance Employees introduces two of the most valuable tools for getting the absolute best from your people and for managing working relationships, The Corporate Ombudsman and the new Even Better Place to Work diagnostic tool. The Corporate Ombudsman is a free service devised to help higher level management find out exactly what is happening in their organization. With the Corporate Ombudsman, any CEO/Manager can receive anonymous (or the writer can include their name if they wish), unfiltered emails DIRECTLY from any staff member, thus giving them a formerly unseen view of the company at grass roots level. Not only does this give the CEO/Management of the company some extremely valuable and formerly unheard information but it also gives the staff a way to express their feelings and ideas more directly. You listen people into existence - showing staff that they actually matter, and that their ideas and concerns are being taken seriously, is a crucial aspect of turning workplace morale around. Adding to the "feel good" factor in the organization helps staff concentrate on the job rather than griping about what the company is doing wrong, or worse, seeking employment elsewhere. Losing good employees to frustration with workplace complaints increases overhead costs - giving them a voice within the company keeps them loyal, happy, and smiling when you walk into the room. High Performance Employees can to "help you to grow your people" with a brand new website offering this free feature - which may be the first of it's kind in the world! The Even Better Place to Work diagnostic tool is a new system of evaluating your team online and will prove to be one of the most beneficial resources any company dedicated to building a strong, dynamic team will ever come across. Using the new system will provide leaders and individuals alike with an amazing, and formerly unknown, insight into how the people in their organization feel. It will also show what they feel is working and what isn't and give you that vital information fast so that you stop little problems from becoming bigger ones. This system brings proven professional (organizational psychologist designed) team development to companies large and small. It provides scheduled, on-line, DIY, self service, rolling, interactive program of practical activities. When used by an organization it produces automatic, integrated individual, team and company reports. Use of this system will bring dramatic results, which are sustained and embedded in the culture. A proven 5-20% improved performance, with no administrative burden and without asking people to work longer or harder. About High Performance Employees - High Performance Employees is the North American-based portal to achieving success; offering real-life, viable resources that any business can utilize to create "Winning Relationships in the Workplace." The program, while multi-leveled and comprehensive, operates from the idea that it is human differences that create uniqueness - and that uniqueness is an asset to be cultivated,, rather than cancelled out. "Winning Relationships in the Workplace" has been available for the last 10 years and has been used by clients in the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East including Siemens PLC, PepsiCo, Sony, Glaxo Smith Kline, Exxon Mobil, World Wildlife Fund and Barclays Bank. About Jeff Campbell - Jeff Campbell served as a police officer in what was once one of the world's most dangerous places to police: Northern Ireland. After immigrating to Vancouver, Canada in 2001 Mr. Campbell joined the Vancouver Police Department; focusing his beat on the tough downtown eastside area. With many years of up-close-and-personal social-studies in his career as a police officer Jeff began contemplating the reasons behind an individual's success or failure in life - wondering why some people seemed to 'make it' while others floundered. These questions led him to become an avid scholar of the science of success; trying to decipher a design behind achievement. During those studies, Jeff encountered the "Winning Relationships in the Workplace" program and it became his vision to introduce this and several other personally-developed training workshops to North America.
What Are YOUR Employees Spending Their 8 Hours On?
What are your employees doing with their 8 hours?
If this is the kind of paperwork your employees are processing - and according to recent statistics upwards of 20 percent of them are actively looking for someplace other than their current workplace to build a career - what can you do about it? How do you keep that 20+ percent from turning over and looking for workplace satisfaction elsewhere? High Performance Employees has created various programs to help you address just this issue. By following the tenets laid out and taught in our workshops you and your employees can learn to have not just 'good' working relationships, but GREAT ones - and in doing so, you will be ensuring the future positions of those very employees you've already spent time, energy, and money on to train. From one of our recent workshops: "Seventy percent of the people leave jobs because of 'relationship issues.' And most of those are relationships with their immediate supervisor. That's a real critical relationship. Twenty-five percent of a manager's time is lost on unnecessary conflict. In my experience, when I run the Winning Relationships program at organizations that's a conservative figure. In my experience, working with people like yourselves, it's much much higher. All I'm trying to suggest is - you want differences, you don't want conflict. Conflict doesn't make good business sense. You're losing time. You're generating stress. The stuff that was being talked about this morning in terms of improving efficiency and all of that - look at the time that's lost. And it was really interesting this afternoon - about communication issues coming up. And that's all about relationships. You know, to grow your business, grow relationships...It's not just a soft issue, or, rather it is a soft issue - but the soft issues are often harder than the hard issues..." Listen to live samples from our workshop events here and when you're ready to take a first step toward reversing that 20+ percent loss, toward maintaining a happy atmosphere in the workplace, toward listening your employees into harmony and satisfaction in your place of business (and affecting your financial bottom line in a positive way in the process!) you can sign up for the free Corporate Ombudsman service, learn more about High Performance Employees' A Great Place to Work system, or check out our extensive list of workshops and workshopping options. High Performance Employees is poised to help you grow your people, so why not take advantage of what we have to offer - and ensure that those you value most in the office aren't actually on their way out the door. Image courtesy: PostSecret.
The High Performance Employees Newsletter
Now you can stay connected to the High Performance Employees website via your email inbox! Just use the 'Get Connected!' signup form on any of the main website pages to enter your email and receive a copy of our monthly newsletter. The newsletter will be targeted to business owners with working relationships as the main focus; including tips and highlights from the High Performance Employees workshops, event information, new site feature announcements, targeted news articles, and personal messages from the Director of HPE, Jeff Campbell. Also included will be helpful business tips ranging from maintaining high morale in the workplace to how to decrease turnover rates at your company. Get connected! Sign up now! Our first issue is expected to make it's debut in early August. Archived newsletters will also be available on the website, in our News Room.
Introducing the High Performance Employees Corporate Ombudsman
We are proud to introduce our new website feature - The Corporate Ombudsman! The Corporate Ombudsman is a free service devised to help higher level management find out exactly what is happening in their organization without the inherent filtering which naturally happens when lower level management pass on comments and results from staff. Just about every CEO/company realizes the importance of honest feedback but very few are actually receiving it. That means that the person in charge is running the company staff on information which is not necessarily "correct." With the Corporate Ombudsman any CEO/Manager can receive anonymous (or the writer can include their name if they wish), unfiltered emails DIRECTLY from any staff member, thus giving them a formerly unseen view of the company at grass roots level. The service can be used to pass on anything which the staff member thinks the CEO/Manager should hear about.Not only does this give the CEO/Management of the company some extremely valuable and formerly unheard information but it also gives the staff a way to express their feelings and ideas directly to the top management. Learn more about the Ombudsman feature here or register your company for this free service now, by clicking here.
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