UpMo, Inc.

Flow is an optimal optimal mental state that occurs when challenge meets skill. It leads to feelings of engagement, joy, full absorption, and proficiency. A critical aspect of increasing flow for employees is investing in career development.

Employee-centric career development can contribute to innovation. Conversations with global executives from multiple industries confirmed that this issue is top of mind. The question is - is there a secret sauce for developing innovators?

Research shows that those with higher levels of psychological well-being produce more, higher quality work and live overall happier lives. It is imperative to consider and measure employees’ well-being when designing employee engagement approaches.

A recent HR Outlook survey of senior HR professionals found that a surprising number of HR teams don’t have a succession plan in place. With employee attrition threatening to rise and executives preparing to jump ship, this is cause for concern.

Labor statistics show that more jobs are becoming available. As they do, employees will begin to flee from enterprises that lowered the cost of labor by substantially downsizing and forcing every last ounce of productivity out of those who remained.

There are big shifts happening today in the way employees are valued and treated. These shifts require truly innovative technological solutions that inspire a new level of social collaboration and re-think archaic HR processes.

An UpMo executive shares her experience at the WorldBlu LIVE 2011 event in San Francisco.

The non-profit, WorldBlu, is a leader of the democracy at work movement and their WorldBlu LIVE 2011 event happened last week (May 19th-20th). Two UpMo executives were in attendance.

Employees want a voice. Programs and systems that treat employees like chattel will struggle to gain adoption and the quality of the employee-provided insight gained from these systems will be lacking.

A recently released Executive Job Market Intelligence Report strongly suggests that a majority of executive talent is preparing for a successful job search. There are many reasons it makes sense to look at internal opportunities before jumping ship.