A challenge to all managers (rerun) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

A challenge to all managers (rerun) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Im going to risk provoking business leaders everywhere and state that any leader worth her salt knows how happy her people are at work. This is a leaders most basic responsibility. You shouldnt need to see a pie chart you should know already. The question of ?How happy are people in our organization??? is typically handed over to HR who can then distribute a job satisfaction survey that results in a lot of statistics which can then be sliced and diced in any number of way to produce any number of results. You know ?lies, damned lies and statistics???. Im not saying these surveys are worthless. Wait a minute: I am saying theyre worthless. Theyre a waste of time and money because they very rarely give a company the information or the drive necessary to make positive changes. As I said, you as a leader/manager shouldnt need a survey to know how your people are doing so I challenge you to a simple exercise. It goes like this: Read the rest of this entry ? (This is a rerun of a previous article, while Im in London on holidays) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related