Understanding The Correlation Between Engagement and Happiness

Wouldn’t it be great to get consistent feedback from big numbers of employees without the useful hassles associated with distributing and managing company surveys? HappyOrNot’s solution is filling this void. The company provides kiosks and backend analytics which allows organizations to easily listen to their employees every day. By placing HappyOrNot terminals in high-traffic areas […]

What’s Preventing Your Success?

We all have obstacles to achieving success. Barriers to entry like the dollar value, market saturation, lack of capital or finding the best staff, are all real obstacles. So if problems can be solved, and they can, what stands in your way? Why are these problems not getting solved? What is your number one obstacle? Can I […]

Shake Up Your View Of Leadership

Some New Ground Rules For The Millennial Generation Since starting NextGenLeaders eight years ago, we’ve had the privilege of working extensively with Millennials. At the onset, my assumption was that great leadership is great leadership, and that most of my favorite principles and models would have as much currency for Millennials as they do for […]

3 Fs for a Healthier Workforce

The World Health organization makes it clear that there are significant benefits from an improvement in workforce health. Whilst investments in workforce health might instinctively seem to benefit employees the most, in fact the benefits are split between the employees and the organization. Having established that increasing workforce health is a mutually beneficial outcome, how […]

Millennials and Volunteerism

A recent study[1] found that 92% of millennials are interested in making the world a better place.  That got me thinking:  Are millennials active as volunteers?  How can charitable organizations tap into their potential? Volunteering Trends The most recent data from Statistics Canada[2] paints an interesting picture. Volunteer participation is highest for the 15 to […]