Tag: employee engagement
5 Ways to Foster a Brighter Workplace Amid Summer’s Glow
Here’s a roundup of fun ways to keep the startup team — and entrepreneur types — inspired.
What If Every Weekend Was Three Days Long? At These Companies It Is
Looking forward to an extra day off this week? What if a four-day work week was the norm, not the exception? Take a peek inside companies where everywhere weekend is a long one.
5 Ways to Shrink the Threat of an Employee’s Exit to Proprietary Info
Proactively addressing staff departures lets a company minimize the risk from unwanted disclosures.
How to Create a High-Performance Culture
One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is the opportunity to craft your company culture. It’s also one of the hardest, because – let’s face it – you cannot dictate a culture. Ultimately, your company culture is going to be what people make it. But, as a leader, you ought to steer in the right direction. SmartRecruiters has been 3 years in…
Stop Hiring Disengaged Employees
An employee’s engagement level post hire is a combination of the type of person who was hired and how they were grown while in the role.
How Employees Who Speak Up Can Help Your Business
Most workplaces have a “loudmouth.” These people are an asset. Their opinion may be shared by the team, so be a good leader by taking their concerns seriously.
5 Simple Office Policies That Make Danish Workers Way More Happy Than Americans
Americans think it’s normal to hate their jobs. Let us introduce you to the Danish concept of arbejdsglde. It means happiness at work. Here’s how…
Perks don’t always keep workers
At her workplace, Deborah Beetson can count on catered lunch once a month and regular bagel breakfasts. Those are just some of the perks that have landed her employer, DPR Construction, on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work. But ask those same workers if they feel engaged and you will discover perks are not enough to keep them loyal or inspire them to put…
How to tame your employees’ wandering eye
Tempted by the prospect of landing a better gig, 85% of the workforce is looking for a job or interested in talking with recruiters, according to a survey released Tuesday by LinkedIn. That even includes people who are “satisfied” with their jobs.
Why Incentives Do NOT Actually Motivate People To Do Better Work
If you pay people more, they’ll do better work, right? Nope, says science.
Use continuous communication to keep employees on track
If an employee responds to a dressing-down by insisting they’ve never heard such criticism before, it’s a sign that either you or your company’s managers aren’t communicating properly, writes Art Petty. “[T]he effort to deliver constructive feedback is minimal, the techniques to do so effectively fairly easy to learn and the results when done properly, priceless,” Petty writes.
What Are Employees Really Complaining About?
Look deeper into seemingly shallow grievances to get to the root of workplace complaints.
Why Pinterest Employees Took A Road Trip In This Winnebago
For two weeks, Pinterests creative team open mic’d, BBQ’d, and screen-printed their way across the American Southwest. To get your own creative juices flowing.
Employee Engagement Can Be Predicted
Address the issue of employee engagement in a new light, start hiring for engagement traits that can be predicted.
The One-Question Employee Engagement Test
We’ve seen the definition of employee engagement. But, how do you test for employee engagement? One simple question – do you trust your employees?
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