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How to Calculate Employee Turnover Rate and Why It’s Important
Did you know that nearly 1 in 3 new hires leave their jobs within the first year? It’s a startling statistic that raises an important question: what’s driving employees out the door, and what can you do to stop it? Understanding employee turnover is more than crunching numbers—it’s uncovering the story those numbers tell about your company.
Creative Corporate Event Ideas Your Team Will Actually Enjoy
If you’re looking for a way to spice things up and have some fun while improving your team’s skills, corporate event ideas are exactly what you need. They might just seem like fun excuses to get out of work, but business events can be incredibly beneficial to your organization and teams.
Spice Up Your Team Building! 25 Unforgettable Food-Tasting Events
Food-tasting events are the ultimate secret weapon for breaking down barriers in the workplace and sparking genuine connections. A favorite food can evoke a memory or aid a conversation, bringing together different cultures and uniting people on special days.
15 Fun Icebreaker Ideas & Get-To-Know-You Games
Get-to-know-you games are invaluable tools that foster connection and collaboration in today’s diverse workplaces. They help remote, hybrid, and in-person teams strengthen their connections and learn more about each other, which is a must for productivity and collaboration.
Creative Employee Appreciation Ideas for Remote Workers
In a world where Zoom meetings have replaced break room chats, leaders are transforming how we celebrate success with new employee appreciation ideas for remote workers.
10 Quotes on Communication at Work
Inspirational and motivational quotes often come from those who have broken barriers, paved the way for others, and achieved their goals. Though they may seem frivolous, workplace communication quotes can reveal valuable insights.
Work Culture Decoded: Understanding Workplace Culture in 2025
Work culture isn’t just some corporate jargon word that gets thrown around a lot—it’s an invisible force that can make or break your team’s success.
People Experience 101: How to Improve the Employment Experience
Employees interact with their workplace and the people in it every day. They have experiences—good and bad—that create their perception and of their company and job. This is known as the employee experience, and it’s an incredibly important factor in business.
Office Sustainability: Easy Ideas & Tips for a Greener Workplace
If you’re ready to create a greener workplace, you’re probably well aware of the increasingly evident effects of global warming on today’s world. It’s ultimately up to us to make a difference, which means building greener workplaces and implementing office sustainability ideas. Every little bit helps when it comes to the planet!
Benefits of Empathy in the Workplace & How to Cultivate It
The importance of empathy in the workplace cannot be overstated. An empathic workplace ensures that all employees within an organization are heard, seen, and treated as equals.
Our Top 5 Motivational Activities for Employees in 2025
Motivational activities for employees are silent game-changers in modern workplace culture.
The Hidden Cost of Presenteeism
Every business wants reliable employees who always show up for work, but sometimes, that goes too far. They show up when they’re sick or burnt out, unable to focus or be as productive as they should be. That loss in productivity is the hidden cost of presenteeism.
How to Build Trust at Work: A Guide for Teams
Trust lays the foundation for everything else in the workplace. But unfortunately, only 21% of U.S. workers strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organization.
Four Types of Organizational Culture in Business
Different types of organizational culture can make or break your company’s success. They have the power to turn a good business into a great one or hold it back from reaching its full potential.
Fear of Judgment: How to Embrace Failure and Foster Growth
The fear of judgment and failure is present in many aspects of our lives, particularly in the workplace. These two common fears can arise for a variety of reasons. It’s human to want to be accepted, excel at our jobs, and support ourselves and our loved ones. But these very natural desires can inadvertently fuel social anxiety at work, leading to a powerful fear of judgement or failure.
11 Game Show Ideas to Revolutionize Your Team’s Potential
I’ve been team building for over 15 years, and in that time, I’ve discovered some of the most powerful tools for boosting team morale: game shows! Ideas like Jeopardy and In It to Win It might not sound like the secret to improving team interactions, but I’ve seen the magic firsthand.
10 Team Engagement Ideas That Really Work
Employee engagement hit an 11-year low in the beginning of 2024 with only 30% of employees actively engaged at work. This is concerning for most businesses, seeing as companies with engaged employees are 21% more profitable.
10 Winter Group Activities for January and February
Winter is a season that often brings people indoors, but it doesn’t mean that your team can’t still come together for some fun. The best way? A good old fashioned winter team building activity. Even coming back to work after the holidays can be arduous, but just because the holiday season has come to an end doesn’t mean the holiday spirit has to go with it. Keeping employees engaged and motivated year-round is vital to the success of all companies.
9 Work New Year Goals for 2025
Personal New Year’s resolutions are great, but have you thought of your work New Year’s resolutions for 2025? Most of us spend about a third of our lives at work, so positive changes made in the workplace are bound to have an effect on other aspects of our lives.
How to Deal with Negative Employees
Negativity in the workplace is nothing new. Since people have had jobs, there have always been negative employees and negative attitudes at work. While that may not seem like a big deal, negativity can have a multitude of harmful consequences.
Friendly Competition: Powering Team Building Success
They say there’s nothing like a little friendly competition to bring people together. After over two decades in the team building trenches, we can confirm that it’s not just a saying; it’s a much-needed workplace revolution.

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