The only thing worse is when you give someone feedback and they sit there, smile and nod, and tell you they’ll be sure to keep it in mind ... only for you to find out weeks or months later they just ignored you and kept on doing things how they wanted to do them.

We all know how important it is to work from a set of shared values –– it’s one of the most powerful predictive factors for employee engagement and high performance, plus, it encourages a sense of camaraderie and makes being at work much more enjoyable.