Green Goldfish

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Extrinsic vs. intrinsic Rewards – What Makes a Difference to The Bottom Line?

Extrinsic factors like salary and benefits don’t necessarily lead to employee motivation or boost firm performance. What does? Intrinsic elements. That’s what Dan Ariely shared on a recent episode of the Prof G podcast with Scott Galloway. The Green Goldfish concept, which emphasizes the importance of going beyond monetary incentives, also reinforces this idea. The […]

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Wellbeing is less woo, woo and more WOOO!

Does employee Wellbeing impact Firm Performance and profitability?

Employee Satisfaction, Green Goldfish, Happiness / stan

I’ve heard people say employee well-being is just a bunch of woo-woo. Turns out it is more Ric Flair, “WOOOO!” A report from researchers at Oxford and Harvard this month has shown a strong positive relationship between employee wellbeing and firm performance. The study aggregated data from over 1,600 listed companies in the US. It

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How can leaders foster engagement and reinforce culture post-Covid with a distributed workforce?

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Great time today at our first Jeffersonian Lunch of 2023 with Sarah Lien Finnerty, Pam Didner, and Chris Quinn. We went to Mookies New York Deli in Cary. Thanks to owner Ron Didner for the hospitality. Hat tip to Marcey Rader, CSP® as we had Marcey’s Brussel Sprouts as an appetizer. Here was our topic:How can leaders foster engagement and reinforce culture

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People seated at tables in a conference room, listening to a speaker. The word "DISCOVERY" and a fish graphic are on the wall.

This is the ONE thing that causes most presentations to fail…

Green Goldfish, Purple Goldfish, Silver Goldfish / stan

It’s DISCOVERY. Failing to give your audience time to process new ideas/concepts and allow them the space to discover how to implement what they’ve learned. Big thanks to Victoria Tracy Ringwood and Nikki Jones for providing me the opportunity to present to KONICA MINOLTA, INC. in Mahwah, New Jersey. I shared lessons about customer centricity from both Purple Goldfish 2.0 and

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15 Ways Google Drives Employee Engagement

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At one time it was almost 10 times harder to get a job at Google than it was to get into Harvard… Back in 2014, I wrote an article in Forbes exploring 15 reasons why. Here is a synopsis: 1. Dollars and Sense – With billions of dollars in revenue every year, Google pays some of the highest average salaries in the tech

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Leadership Lessons from the Life of Queen Elizabeth

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Three lessons of warmth from the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Why warmth? Because as we evolved as human beings, we developed skills integral to our survival. One of those was the ability to make snap judgments about our surroundings with a high degree of both speed and accuracy. We judged everyone and everything we

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Judgement Day for the Return to the Office

Flexibility vs. control – Should workers return to the office?

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September 6th, 2022 was the day when many companies have dictated that workers need to return to the office. Many workers have been remote over the last two years due to the global pandemic. Many have gotten used to work-from-home. Namely less stress and greater flexibility. Now many are being mandated to go back to

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How can companies boost employee morale and drive high performance?

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How can companies boost employee morale and drive high performance? The simple answer is doing the little extras beyond compensation to demonstrate commitment to your employees. Yesterday I shared lessons from Green Goldfish in Dallas at #TaxGrowthCon. We examined how companies go above and beyond to create signature extras. While collecting 1,001 examples of employee

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FoodShare Toronto thinks we should pay candidates to interview

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Should we pay job candidates to interview? FoodShare Toronto thinks so. The non-profit organization began paying job applicants $75 per interview. CEO Paul M. Taylor told CTV News Toronto, “I think employers have gotten off scot free for far too long by expecting candidates to bear the costs of an interview. We recognize that people

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How about this potential perk for a new employee? A new house

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Wow! How about this potential perk for a new employee? A new house. Last month I wrote about Florida-based Mechanical One. The AC and plumbing provider is giving away two mortgage-free homes to employees. It’s my most viewed and commented-on post ever on LinkedIn. The company has bought two lots for the three-bedroom, two-bath homes

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Extrinsic vs. intrinsic Rewards – What Makes a Difference to The Bottom Line?

Does employee Wellbeing impact Firm Performance and profitability?

How can leaders foster engagement and reinforce culture post-Covid with a distributed workforce?

This is the ONE thing that causes most presentations to fail…

15 Ways Google Drives Employee Engagement

Leadership Lessons from the Life of Queen Elizabeth

Flexibility vs. control – Should workers return to the office?

How can companies boost employee morale and drive high performance?

FoodShare Toronto thinks we should pay candidates to interview

How about this potential perk for a new employee? A new house

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