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Celebrate Administrative Professionals Day 2025: Ideas & Gift Guide
Administrative Professionals Day 2025 falls on Wednesday, April 23rd. It marks a special day on which the working world celebrates administrative professionals, secretaries, and support staff. These professionals deserve recognition for the hard work they do to keep offices everywhere running smoothly, and there’s no better day to say thanks!Â
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.
How Managers Can Support Employee Development
Employee development is an essential part of creating a talented and dedicated workforce. According to Gallup, organizations that invest in developing employees are 11% more profitable and have double the retention rates of those who do not. On the other hand, bad managers and a lack of career development are the top reasons for turnover. Businesses need to ensure that managers support their employees and offer them opportunities to grow and develop their skills.
Power of Play: Get Your Employees Playing as a Team
The power of play is the best way to get you working as a team today. If you’re here, it means you are looking for ways to help your team bond through experiences to become a more cohesive, collaborative and more productive unit, right?
Leveraging Career Advancement Opportunities to Increase Employee Retention
In a highly competitive job market, finding ways to gain and retain skilled employees is key. One of the best ways to increase employee retention is through career advancement/development and team building. High turnover can be incredibly costly for a business. According to Gallup, an employee leaving can cost one-half to two times their yearly salary.
The Power of Networking
Without a doubt, networking can be an essential skill to grow a business or developing your personal network. Every relationship you make is critical, as former Head of Design at Twitter, Mike Davidson once said:
Team Building Exercise: Break the Ice & Be a Hero
How do you reach great feats and save the day? With a team, of course. Where would Batman (nay, Gotham!) be without Alfred? Doesn’t Super Mario need a little help from Toad and Luigi on occasion? Of course!
Meet The Team: Paul
In this series of articles we take five minutes to chat with a member of the  TeamBonding team so you can get an idea of the sort of people we are. In this installment, we talk with our Director of Facilitator Training, Paul Giroux.
5 Elements of Cooperative Learning | Help Your Team Learn Considerably More
Results are very important to companies and team leaders, but how team members interact with each other to achieve results is often a neglected aspect of managing a team. (more…)
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…)
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…)
Feature Friday | Employee Training Programs
You have a great team, right? And you want to keep that team. Retaining employees is vital to success.
Performing as a Team – How to Succeed
In the world of group development, if you’ve gotten this far, you’ve gotten the brass ring. You’ve won the game. You have boldly gone where no team has gone before.
Best Team Building | School for Spies
This live action photo was taken during one of our best team building programs. The nation’s most prestigious espionage training academy, School for Spies, is training the next class of recruits! (more…)
Building a Team | Forming
Unless you’re stranded alone on a deserted island, chances are good that you are part of a team on a regular basis.
Daylight Savings | Building Team Energy
I don’t know about you, but the first day back at work after pushing the clock ahead an hour hurts. It hurts a bit more to get out of bed, and it hurts to get through the day without a seventh cup of coffee (I’m well caffeinated).
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