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How to Deal with Compensation Without Ugly Performance Reviews
We all know that everyone hates performance reviews, they are archaic, and there is a tone of research showing that companies will do much better without them. Many empowering companies like Linkedin and HootSuite have eliminated traditional reviews from their performance … Continue reading
What Are the Benefits of Having an Organizational Chart in Your Startup?
As a growing start-up company, implementing an organizational chart may not be on your list of top priorities. You may think “why should I have an organizational structure when I only have twenty employees, and everyone knows their role?” It … Continue reading
Social Media Makes Us More Honest in the Workplace
At 7Geese, we are well on our way to change the meaning of performance review – Goodbye the traditional paper-based form filling process that creates many problems and Hello integrating performance management with social media to provide real time coaching … Continue reading
How to Communicate and Integrate Your Core Values Into Your Organization
In my previous blog, we have discussed the importance of core values and how to set them in your organization. The next step is to communicate and integrate these core values into your organization, which I’ll be discussing in this blog post. … Continue reading
Transform your tech company from Good to Great (1/7) – Level 5 Leadership
This post is part of my series on how to apply the concepts of the book Good to Great to tech companies. In this post I’m going to talk about Level 5 Leadership, it’s significance in tech companies, how to cultivate it, and some examples of Level 5 Leaders in the tech industry. Continue reading
Stop the Social Business Madness at your Workplace
I recently re-watched one of my favorite TED talks titled “The Power of Introverts” by Susan Cain. Susan’s claim that today’s workplaces are becoming overly social and teamwork-oriented hit home for me, and in this blog post, I will build … Continue reading
7 Lessons We Can Learn From Geese to Succeed at Work
Geese are fascinating creatures and for many reasons, our company name and logo represent seven geese flying in a V-formation. Below are 7 things we can learn, some of which I extracted from reading Christopher Knight’s post: Sharing a common goal: As … Continue reading
Infographic: Importance of feedback in business and its evolution
How do we become remarkable at work? We ask questions, we challenge assumptions, and we request feedback to improve! Employee feedback is necessary for both employees to advance their careers and companies to enhance their performance. Today over 90% of … Continue reading
Leading Gen Y’s in a Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s workplace looks and feels very different than it did only 10 years ago – if you haven’t noticed it already, there is a demographic shift of employees that has directly affected how we work. This shift is set to make waves for companies and in this… Continue reading
Recognize your peers!
Last week, the new recognition feature was released for 7Geese. This new feature allows for peers to award badges to each other for behaviors that are in alignment with company values. Recognizing your peers within the company has many benefits and I’ll demonstrate how … Continue reading
Motivate your team intrinsically or extrinsically?
There is no doubt that motivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals. Motivation can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is driven by an interest or enjoyment in the actions required to achieve a goal, without relying on external rewards or pressures. Extrinsic motivation is the opposite and requires external rewards such as money or external consequences such as demotion. Continue reading
Social Goals, a buzzword that may stick around
There is a new buzz word flying around these days in company performance management talks. It’s “social goals”. Social goals do not refer to society or humanity goals as the name sounds. Social goals in the context of a company are goals that have been made visible to everyone, enabling teams to easily … Continue reading
Why on earth did we choose 7Geese for our product name?
Last night I was the keynote speaker at EIO, a Vancouver-based entrepreneurship organization. I did a presentation about Social Business and our product 7Geese. The presentation went great and many people came and asked me questions after I was done. One of the main questions that … Continue reading
