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Your Employee Engagement Is ‘In the Bag’
Not long ago, one of our employees came into work to find a grocery-size paper bag sitting on his desk inscribed with the words ‘Amazing Service Mystery Bag’ in black Sharpie ink. Just as the...
View ArticleHow to Inspire Your Employees to Work 12 Hours on a Saturday
Quick: Think of the top three items on your to-do list. These are likely must-do tasks that cannot wait another day. While each item may be essential to your business, you probably wish that you had...
View Article4 Reasons Your Company Needs Talent Alignment
By Andre Lavoie It shocks me how challenging it can be to get teams working toward a common goal, let alone tracking and understanding their progress. This process often resembles a game of telephone,...
View ArticleBack to the Future: Why Face-to-Face Training is Back in Favor
By Ben Egan There is significant business value in investing in your employees’ learning and development. I know, this is hardly a revelation as training helps improve an employee’s capabilities,...
View ArticleTips for Boosting Employee Engagement
By Keith Cawley Everyone wants to engage and be engaged — in networking, on social media, and especially in the workplace. A recent Gallup poll, however, reports that 7 out of 10 workers report being...
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One Great Dane’s Advice for Building Positive Employee Engagement
As a learning specialist and business consultant for over 35 years, I have found that in order to create long-term businesses success, one has to understand what it means to be a leader and what it...
View ArticleThe Effect of Top-Down Management on Employee Engagement
By Andre Lavoie There’s no denying that an engaged employee is a productive employee. What is worth denying is employee engagement is a bottom-up process driven by the very people you hope to engage;...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Ways to Manage Introverts
By Nicole Hall According to TINYpulse, only one out of four employees feel fully recognized for their work. Companies that offer recognition programs can decrease their employees’ attrition and improve...
View ArticleTake a Page From a Coach’s Playbook to Build a Winning Business Team
By Autumn Manning When it comes to managing teams, winning coaches understand that providing consistent feedback and praise to individual players contributes to the betterment of the team. Great...
View Article10 Simple Steps to Inspire and Engage Your Employees to Do Their Best for You
By Ray Zinn A disengaged employee is like an unplugged alarm clock. Neither works very well. Employee engagement is not a game. It isn’t a one-time fix, nor a once-per-year cash bonus bribe. Employee...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Good Feedback? How to Offer Constructive Advice to Your Staff
By Andre Lavoie Annual performance evaluations are losing steam, with employers and employees alike professing how much they dislike them. A March 2016 report from TINYpulse found that 31 percent of...
View Article4 of the Most Common Leadership Development Mistakes Companies Make
By Thuy Sindell Only 35 percent of managers are engaged at work, a recent Gallup report suggests. That means just a handful of managers are really leading employees like they should—and that has...
View ArticleHow to Be a Good Leader: 3 Questions Every Employee Wants Answered Every Day
By Nate Regier The research on employee engagement, morale, and retention is clear: Employees of any age come to work wanting answers to three important questions. The more confident they are in the...
View Article7 Smart Ways Business Leaders Can Better Engage Their Employees
Post sponsored by Aurora University Half of all U.S. adults have left a job to get away from their manager at some point in their career, according to a recent Gallup survey. And less than one-third of...
View Article4 Icebreaker Activities to Help Build Employee Engagement
By Greg Spaulding Engaged employees drive a company’s success. They’re ready to perform, innovate, and help their companies grow. So here’s the reality: Only 33% of U.S. employees today are engaged in...
View Article3 Tech Tools That Can Have a Big Impact on Your Small Business
Technology has started to feel like a four-letter word these days—especially in the business world. Stand by the water cooler and you might hear chatter among employees about what programs, such as...
View Article6 Surefire Strategies to Kickstart Employee Engagement
According to Gallup, employee engagement is on the rise with 34% of employees engaged at work. While that’s great news, it still leaves 66% of employees who are potentially not engaged or not happy at...
View ArticleHow to Conduct Effective Employee Surveys That Will Improve Your Business
By Andy Bailey For B2B companies, team members are one of the main reasons clients turn into repeat buyers. Without great team members, client service and operational execution suffer, which means your...
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