When I gave a webinar for nearly 500 CEOs in the Vistage community, they asked me to respond to these questions:
- How do you drive productivity and customer service where the primary delivery is person-to-person?
- Would you address the Employee Free Choice Act?
- When facing downsizing, how do you keep key staff motivated?
- Can you discuss exempt and non-exempt employees?
- What are the best practices for hiring?
- What are the best practices for performance reviews?
- How do you engage employees?
- How do PEOs and outsourcing HR impact employee productivity?
- How do you get managers and supervisors on board when they, as well as employees, focus on this downward economy?
- What are the barriers to changing organizational culture?
- How do you structure a bonus plan that's objective and motivates everyone, especially top performers?
- What can we do to help departments work together?
- How do you increase productivity and, in general, change corporate culture with an older "veteran" workforce?
- What do we do to calm the nerves of people who remain employee during layoffs?
- How do you hold people accountable without making them feel that you're beating up on them or getting overly defensive?
- What are the best practices for employee retention? What metrics do you monitor?
- What's the most successful method to reduce "blame games?"
- How do you get people to admit responsibility for their actions?
- With our current economic conditions, how do you perceive HR as an asset to an organization, i.e., revenue generating?
- How can I help people with strong and different personality types get along so they can truly listen to one another?
- In a small company where people wear many hats and must adjust expectations quickly, how do you conduct performance reviews?
- What's the single largest change we could make to improve productivity?
- How do you feel about using profit per employee as a productivity metric?
- What are your thoughts on the pros and cons of telecommuting?
- What are the top five techniques for getting the most from contractors?
- Which Web sites can we use to find information about our specific state laws?
- What are the keys to success for a new work-from-home employee?
- What are the major differences in manufacturing environments versus office or other workplaces?
- How do you keep a pipeline of qualified desirable employees even if there are no openings at present?
- How would you handle operating in a community with high drug use, high turnover and absenteeism?
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