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Resources on the Essential Skills for CIOs – Page 3

How to Improve Employee Engagement?

A frustrated employee is not productive. A satisfied employee is. How should an organization use its limited – and ever shrinking – budgets to improve employee job satisfaction and morale? Here is a recipe for employee engagement.

Five Disciplines of the New CIO

This whitepaper discusses the five key disciplines – skills – that a Chief Information Officer (CIO) must master in order to deliver business value.

Six Steps to Better Employee Engagement

The authors suggest that employee retention is key to an organization’s success and arguing that compensation is not the primary reason for employee attrition, they make the case for better employee engagement, and better support systems

Aligning Employees with Organization’s Core Values

Developing a high-performing organization starts with defining its core values &ndash; the <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">actions and behaviors essential to the organization&rsquo;s success. To do this successfully,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">you must engage your employees in a series of conversations about what it means to be&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">a values-driven organization, what behaviors support the core values, and how important&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">employees are in the daily realization of the core values.&nbsp;This tool highlights some of the techniques used to accomplish that.</span>

What Makes Team Work?

This paper summarizes research done on team effectiveness. This material is dated but a good read.

Team Effectiveness Questionnaire

This paper presents a team effectiveness model and a questionnaire to assess your team’s performance using this model.

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