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Motivated Employees: Get that Festive Feeling with Fun Seasonal Decorations Motivated employees are likely to do a better job. Employees who feel happy and appreciated are also employees who are more likely to stay with a company long term. Retaining employees means reduced employee turnover and decreases labor costs. One of the ways to keep employees […]
Let’s be honest here – hiring the right staff isn’t the easiest of tasks. For small and medium-sized businesses, finding qualified talent is particularly challenging due to limited resources and tight budgets. Recruiting and hiring the right employees for your business can be the difference between survival or failure. Hiring is a huge investment for […]
It may start out as a minor nuisance….then you begin to notice arguments with managers, longer-than-normal lunch breaks, or more wasted time. And before you know it, those small problems begin to add up and impact your teams and products. These are signs of disengaged employees, and it is costing the business a lot of money […]
Four Ways to Get Staff Onboard with Workplace Safety Procedures One of the biggest problems with safety procedures lies in the fact that they’re quite hard to practice due to the lack of motivation. After all, when everyone knows it’s a drill, it all seems less like an exercise designed to save your life and […]
Given a chance, we all like pursuing jobs that lend a boost to our passion. Earning a livelihood out of this job is, obviously, important. But, in reality, we end up in jobs that don’t satisfy. Money and Job are found as two primary causes behind 85 percent of stressed works. “Pleasure in the job […]
In the latest episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham talks with Nicholas Crowe, Director Professional Development at the Canadian Professional Sales Association. Listen as we talk about Nick’s role at CPSA and how the association is helping to revolutionize front line professions. Nick is a self-described education, training, and project management junkie. He’s passionate about building and refining education products […]
The majority of employees think their bosses don’t encourage new ideas at work, according to a study published in Harvard Business Review. Ultimately this leads to potential revenue loss and a higher turnover rate. In the latest episode of the HRchat show, we hear from Dr. Laura Hamill, Chief Science Officer at the Limeade Institute, about how encouraging […]
In the digital age, rapid communication has become easier than ever before. As a result, however, we are often bombarded on every side with requests for communication. Perhaps in an attempt to accommodate this rise in request for our attention, we have developed a sort of commonly accepted shorthand in the form of acronyms, abbreviations […]
The number of virtual teams of employees – those who work from their home or another non-traditional location, and those who work closely with team members in other locations – has increased substantially over the last two decades, with a 2016 study by RW3 CultureWizard finding that 85% of respondents worked on virtual teams and […]
Business Transformation Tips For change to be successful, it must engage those that will live the change. The number of individuals that need to be engaged varies from project to project. In all cases, this engagement requires great facilitation skills. If you asked any other consultants at organization design firm, ON THE MARK, I think […]