Hi! This is Karmen Zabron and I’m the Founder and Chief People Officer at Area of Effect (AoE). As part of the Cohesion Culture™️ team, my role is HR Gamification Strategist. At AoE, we believe that it’s people that make your company great, and we help HR and organizational leaders create environments where individuals can thrive. How …
DON’T BOX IN WORKPLACE CULTURE Make it a strategy Oftentimes, leaders fail to respond to the periphery until it is in plain sight. For the past several decades, it would be hard to consider “culture” being a sidelined conversation. YET, the attention to changing the toxicity of the work culture has only come into its …
Observation of daily attendance, satisfactory task completion, and supervisory involvement is inconclusive to determine if employees are engaged. Whether intentional or not, employers believe if they observe certain behaviors as engagement activities, they will become qualified to assess which employees are “all in” and committed to their cohesive teams. It’s important for organizational leaders to …
Four Aspects of Engagement All Cohesive Teams HAVE Read More »
Strengthening the success of a corporate culture is as easy as being honest, modeling exceptional behavior, and a full outright integration of “say and do.” YET, even in its simplest form, building a culture that excels in upstanding moral and ethical values takes work. What I call the “Culture Cyclone” begins when leaders do what …
Does Your Corporate Culture Excel in Truth, Doing & Simplicity? Read More »
Right from the start, my writing on this topic is not about whether a company should or should not offer a remote work option. I have “no dog in the fight.” However, I do care how company’s title the program and how they speak about it, as our words shape our world and give meaning …
During the Great ReCALIBRATION (aka the Great Resignation), 48 million people quit their jobs. People did not just quit and lay on the couch eating potato chips and streaming their favorite videos (okay, some of us did that for a brief time); they thought long and hard about how they wanted to work, who they …
Make culture a strategy and it will find something else to eat for lunch. Read More »