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Stop Killing Employee Morale | 4 Ways to Boost Team Motivation Right Now
There are many reasons that projects fail. Many challenges are rooted in team participation and engagement.
Empathetic Leadership: The Key to Employee Retention
Maintaining high retention rates is critical to the overall success of your business and long-term profitability. After all, advertising for new employees and then interviewing, selecting, and training them takes time and money that you can’t afford to waste. In the long run, it’s much better for your business if the people you’ve invested in stay with you.
The Employee Turnover Formula & Why It Matters
What Is Employee Turnover? Employee turnover is the percentage of workers who leave your organization, the employment relationship ends and they are replaced by someone new. This is not the same as employee attrition. When attrition occurs, the position is not filled with a new employee. There are two types of employee turnover: involuntary turnover and voluntary turnover.
How to Avoid the Great Resignation
If you read or watch the news, you’ve probably heard the term “The Great Resignation” recently. The pandemic has led to many people reflecting on their lives and reassessing what’s important to them. They are evaluating what they want from life, as well as how their job and the work they do fit into that vision.
Languishing & Leaving: What Is It And How To Help Your Workforce
How to Avoid “Languishing and Leaving” Keep employees engaged to avoid losing good people As we move into the second half of 2021, there is a dominant sense of “blah” permeating the workplace. If you (or your employees) are showing signs of this, you aren’t alone. Coined “languishing,” this sense of stagnation and joylessness is a direct result of the fatigue that set in around the pandemic — and then the push to bring people back into workplace environments that try to pretend nothing has changed. This is a recipe for disaster — one which is already playing out with companies reporting record numbers of resignations, as well as furloughed workers declining to return at all.
What Is Employee Engagement?
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to the organization and its goals. Engaged employees care about their work, they use discretionary effort to accomplish work as a team and their performance is of higher quality.
There is No I in Team | Effective Leadership
The corporate world is experiencing a massive shift. A new generation is entering the workforce, many are retiring, and the formula for leadership is being re-invented. Dictatorships are giving way to collective organizational vision creation. Our titles, age, or departmental role do not define us. Focus is shifting from individual acceleration to purpose-driven teamwork. (more…)
Who Took My Sandwich | Tips to Avoid Workplace Annoyances
There are little things that people do that can cause us to scream in our heads – “Oh My God, Oh My God, Oh My God, will you stop PLEASE!” – but the annoyances are usually so trivial that no one ever really shares their frustration out loud…at least not until it’s too late to sound rational. (more…)
Fun at Work | Group Activities & Team Building Games
It’s simple, having fun at work through group activities and team-building games leads to a great company culture.
Best Employee Onboarding Practices
Imagine you recently hired a new employee, and within a few months, this new employee ends up leaving you. There are a wide variety of reasons why they might choose to leave. It’s possible that the problem is they were never properly introduced to the company. There are a few steps that you can take to be proactive about employee retention.
Avoid New Employee BORE-ientation
According to the training firm Leadership IQ, “46% of rookies wash out in their first 18 months.” This was found by a study done over 3 years of 20,000 new hires. This could be due to the fact that those new hires are not clearly told what they were hired to do or what their goals should be for the first six months and the first year.[lede] (more…)
Team Building Quote of the Week: 1+1 = 3 … or much more
“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” – Stephen Covey (more…)
Why She Left You | A Story of Employee Turnover and Overcoming Heartbreak
She left you. It’s over. You can’t go back now! All you can do is learn from your mistakes.
Need to Know Strategies for Employee Retention
Do you have some pretty amazing employees that you’d hate to see leave? Do you know how to get them to stay? Employee retention should be a top priority, but it can be challenging for a company. It’s crucial to know what steps to take toward success. The more you know about the importance of employee retention, the better! (more…)
Shift Your Focus | The Importance of Employee Retention
Employee turnover is an important issue to monitor in the workplace. Understanding how often employees end their relationships with your organization and why people are leaving are vital to managing employee retention. Most of the reasons for employee turnover are not personal, but you can do a lot to learn from the past and lay a better foundation for the future. (more…)
More About What Makes a Successful Team
Ever feel totally out of your element? Chances are that many of your team members do, which makes success difficult to tackle.
Team Building Events & Outcomes
We spend most of our waking lives at our workplace so it makes sense that our work environment should be a place for friendship, fun and of course – high productivity.
Overcome 4 Major Barriers to Growth Through Team Networking
Networking generates business leads that can help you and your team grow your business through sales and partnerships. However, there are 4 major reasons why people struggle with networking:
Use ALL Team Building Tools to Build a Stronger Team
“Satisfied or happy employees are not necessarily engaged. And engaged employees are the ones who work hardest, stay longest, and perform best.” – Gallup Business Journal Gallup has found that engagement has a greater effect on workers’ wellbeing than any of the benefits it studied. Employees want an intrinsic connection to their work and their company. (more…)
The 5 S’s of Kaizen for Team Success
In a follow up to last week’s post on Kaizen for team building, this week we’ll delve a little deeper into the philosophy.
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