Dr. Bob Nelson

Dr. Bob Nelson, Ph.D., president of Nelson Motivation Inc., is the world’s leading authority on employee recognition and engagement. He has worked with 80% of Fortune 500 companies and authored over 30 books, including the multimillion-copy bestseller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees. With Mario Tamayo he co-authored the new book Work Made Fun Gets Done! Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and Results (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; May 11, 2021).

Dr. Bob Nelson is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn and his website.

C-Suite Advisory

Message to Management: Most Workers Do Not Want to Come Back to the Office

Dr. Bob NelsonC-Suite Advisory

As stated in a recent Fortune article, just 3% of white-collar workers want to return to the office five days a week. This is from a poll by management consultancy Advanced Workplace Associates, which also warned employees will quit if bosses force them back full-time. A full 86% of employees...

Wealth Management

Workplace Human Resources Predictions for 2022

Dr. Bob NelsonWealth Management

The primary workplace challenge of 2022 will be around talent: Attracting talent, getting the best from the talent you hire, and retaining talent. The work landscape has shifted dramatically and companies need to change with it. There continues to be an extreme skilled-worker shortage that started even before the recent...

Future of Work

Unraveling the Mystery of the Great Resignation

Dr. Bob NelsonFuture of Work

As Derek Thompson recently pointed out in his excellent article “Three Myths of the Great Resignation” published in The Atlantic, the seeming exodus from the workplace is really a function of three independent trends: 1) Job Switching, primarily by hospitality workers in restaurants and hotels switching to better, higher paying...

CEO Insights

Making Your Own Work More Fun

Dr. Bob NelsonCEO Insights

Making work more fun starts in every job with every individual worker. It’s a state of mind—an attitude—completely in your control. If you learn to harness this attitude you will have more joy and meaning in your work and your life. According to recent research reported by Business News Daily,...

Business Transformation

Hybrid Workforce: Culture Isn’t Exclusive to Being Onsite

Dr. Bob NelsonBusiness Transformation

As companies continue to grapple with the best way forward in navigating a Hybrid Workforce, one of the beliefs driving many companies to require that all employees return to the office is “company culture,” that is the shared beliefs, values, norms and practices that uniquely distinguish one company from another....

C-Suite Advisory

Post-Covid-19’s Impact on Employees’ Sense of Purpose

Dr. Bob NelsonC-Suite Advisory

According to a recent article by McKinsey & Company, nearly two-thirds of U.S.-based employees reported that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused them to reflect on their purpose, that is, the “enduring, overarching sense of what matters most in a person’s life.” Seventy percent of employees said that their sense...

C-Suite Insider

Employees Just Want to Have Fun

Dr. Bob NelsonC-Suite Insider

As COVID-19 winds down and employees return to the office, companies need to remember that (paraphrasing Cyndi Lauper) “employees just want to have fun.” Most white-collar employees have been cooped up for over a year, isolated and stressed on many levels: professionally, socially, and even physically. Being human, they need...

Dr. Bob Nelson

Message to Management: Most Workers Do Not Want to Come Back to the Office

Workplace Human Resources Predictions for 2022

Unraveling the Mystery of the Great Resignation

Making Your Own Work More Fun

Hybrid Workforce: Culture Isn’t Exclusive to Being Onsite

Post-Covid-19’s Impact on Employees’ Sense of Purpose

Employees Just Want to Have Fun

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