The Productivity Blog

FedEx Express (NYSE:FDX) was awarded the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) 2010 Productivity Pioneer Award today during a presentation at i4cp's 38th Annual Member Conference. This award is presented annually to an i4cp member company that has demonstrated unique and successful programs to...

Here's a late-breaking bulletin: employees leave their jobs because they're dissatisfied with their compensation. Are you shocked? We weren't either. But when results of i4cp's latest survey on Retention Strategy and Execution confirmed the top reason workers bail, we decided to take a closer look.

At a time when leadership and talent management are more critical than ever, few organizations excel in these areas, according to a new study from i4cp. Findings from the study, now available on the i4cp website (corporate membership required), provide insight into the most critical issues...

Are we really three weeks into the new year already? Time flies when you've got too many things to do and not enough time to do them. That's why both organizations and individuals need to prioritize. Not only can setting priorities make organizations less frenzied, they can make them more effective -...

After conducting thousands of studies that cover hundreds of issues related to productivity and the workforce, one thing is clear: there is no single organizational element that is correlated with high performance. Rather, there are five. For decades, the research team at the Institute for Corporate...

Pick a leader - any successful leader. Then search Amazon and see how many books and other publications come up on that person. Abraham Lincoln? 83,642. Gandhi? 61,923. Even Barack Obama, who was widely introduced to the world just five years ago, has 8,670. People love studying successful people.

i4cp is hosting a complimentary webinar on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 1pm EST titled, The Five Domains of High-Performance Organizations. Innovative products and a compelling business strategy are essential, but both fall flat without the human capital that drives the organization. Yet, most...

As we leave the "aughts" (rhymes with "naughts") and enter the (what should we call this next decade, the "tens"? The "teens"?), it is clear that a large part of the population is disappointed. Not just because the last decade was the worst in history for stock market performance, but because the...

i4cp will be hosting a member-only webinar on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1pm EST titled, Driving Retention and Productivity through Employee Onboarding - PNC Financial Services. The onboarding process plays a pivotal role in accelerating the speed and degree that employees - from entry-level...

Company experiences over 120% growth in new membership last year The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the world's largest vendor-free network of corporations focused on building and sustaining a highly productive, high-performance organization, experienced record growth in new...