Use Assessments To Help Improve Remote Employee Engagement

It’s no secret that this recent pandemic has changed how employees engage in their work. Since 2020, a Finances Online report has shown that 80% of corporations worldwide have transitioned to hybrid and remote workspaces, moving away from the traditional office. Even more important, 64% of these companies have said this move will be permanent. These changes bring new challenges. […]

Using Employee Assessments To Improve The Workplace

Using assessments for employees is an optimal method for boosting engagement and improving workplace culture. Developing a comprehensive knowledge of individual team members is often a complex undertaking. We at XQ Innovation can help you understand your employees through successful assessments. Employers can use this additional information to motivate employees and integrate them as a team. With proper utilization, employee […]

What is Happening to HR?

Human Resources (HR) is at a crossroads. Business leaders and HR professionals understand that disengaged and unhappy workers have a negative impact on productivity and profitability, yet not all modern HR strategies are addressing these concerns. In fact, a 2017 Gallup poll found business units in the top quartile of engagement realize 17% higher productivity, 20% higher sales and 21% […]

Do We Treat Employees Like Machines?

(Part 3 of our series, “Why Do People Hate Their Boss”) Do we treat employees like machines? It’s a question on some employees’ minds these days. What motivates people and how they think is the passion of one of today’s great American business management visionaries, Systems Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Peter Senge. An […]

How Henry Ford and the Machine Metaphor Can Teach Us About Current Employee Engagement Challenges

Part 4 in our series, “Why Do People Hate Their Boss” People everywhere want to be freed from leadership styles and management models that continue to make them feel like slaves to machines. Peter Senge’s modern Machine Metaphor (discussed in Part 3 of this series) describes an institutionalized cookie-cutter model that can be seen in every business sector, from schools […]

Why Do People Hate Their Boss? (Part 2)

Work environments can become stifling when cynicism and resignation have replaced commitment, energy and imagination, and when employees secretly have one foot out the door.

Why Do People Hate Their Boss? (Part 1)

Many of today’s employees are tech-savvy digital natives who instinctively sense the gap and may even articulate it only to have their observations fall on deaf ears.