Last week’s The Wall Street Journal article on Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing includes observations from me on this popular topic. The very next day, Friday, I was interviewed by Fox26 Houston to provide advice to employees who find themselves being a victim of Quiet Firing. Over the weekend, others reached out to me to discuss [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne. At least half of the workforce is quiet quitting, according to a report published last week by Gallup. Weeks before, The Wall Street Journal reported on the viral spread of the topic on social media, especially TikTok, by Gen Z and Millennial employees. Sometimes the posts included [...]
After two years of burnout from Covid-19, Gen Z employees have begun to set boundaries, focus on a life outside of work, and have a better work-life balance. They call it “quiet quitting.” Their viewpoint also comes with less enthusiasm for work, doing just enough to get by, and not voluntarily offering to do [...]
InnovationOne, LLC was delighted to participate in the Ethos Project led by Idaho National Labs of The US Department of Energy. The Ethos Project studied the cultures of innovation of six different DOE LABs. The team learned there is a high correlation between culture and R&D lab performance. The results are outstanding: a one-point [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner for InnovationOne, LLC It is essential to use a people-oriented approach to implementing AI to keep the human emotions and work front and center in the change. A people-centric approach involves the impacted employees and clients in the design of digitizing workflows and processes. AI strategies fail when the [...]
Change is imperative for organizational success. The bedrock of organizations that achieve success is a culture of innovation. Yet many leaders resist these cultures of innovation. They may believe culture is too mushy to measure and manage or takes too much time, or perhaps they don’t think about it because it was never taught [...]
Gallup is reporting this month that US employee engagement has dropped in each of the last two years, from 36 percent in 2020 to 32 percent in 2022. However, hybrid and remote workers are more engaged than on-site workers, and employee engagement is higher for organizations that focus on culture. Gallup’s reporting raises the [...]
A client confided in us that they suspended their annual employee engagement surveys for three years to save costs due to an economic downturn. Now their business is growing again, and they plan to restart their surveys. Instead, we suggested using an empirically developed survey that measures the organization’s capability and culture for innovation [...]
Only 12 percent of HR respondents have a regular cultural assessment strategy for assuring their workplace culture stays on track, according to a 2021 Talent Management State of the Industry survey. This result is extraordinary because having a toxic work culture is ten times more likely than low pay to cause employee turnover. What then [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne. Many organizations trying to fight falling employee engagement numbers are making a mistake. Frankly, now is not the time to deal with such matters. Instead of launching another employee engagement survey, listen to your employees’ frustrations and begin to work through them in a very transparent way. Then, [...]
