How to Improve Employee Engagement: Find Good Friends
You’ve probably heard this before “I hate my job, but I love the people.” Usually, that love between co-workers stems from a mutual dislike of the company, culture-crushing gossip, criticism, and suppressed complaints. Flip that around to “I love my job, and I love the people” and those friendships become a defining aspect of the […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Focus on Quality
So, the manager just walked up to say that they need you on a team project and the planning meeting starts in 10. You grab your laptop and coffee, wander into the conference room with a smile plastered on your face and “please let this be a good group, please let this be a good […]
#Hiring and Dating Have a Lot in Common
Hiring is like dating We find “the one”, we woo them, lavish with wine and chocolates, change our status on FB. And then, the stars align. We ask them to go steady. They say “Yes!!” But what happens after that? What happens to our candidates after the wining and dining and wooing and hiring? How […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Make the Mission Clear
It’s 7:37 pm on Wednesday night. I’m still at work, writing this blog and jamming out to Stevie Wonder. It should be a pretty quiet and lonely experience, but I’ve come to realize that I’m not completely alone. While I might have the office all to myself, I still see a few co-workers online, I see a […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Show You Care
Have you ever had a moment where you sat at work and wondered what would happen if you simply got up, left and never came back? Would anyone notice? Would anyone care? According to Gallup, only four in 10 U.S. employees strongly agree that someone, a supervisor or coworker, cares about them as a person. That […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Give Praise
In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work? If you answered yes you’re one of the lucky ones, as only 33% of the workforce has, found Gallup. In all honesty my first reaction to this was, can’t employees perform their best without being told “good job” at least once […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Allow Employees to Do their Best Work
Do you know why employees leave one company for another? There’s a saying I’m sure you’ve heard, “An employee doesn’t leave their job, they leave their boss.” Well according to Gallup, that doesn’t even rank in the top 5 answers by 31 million respondents as listed in the State of the American Workplace report. Here’s the […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Focus on Productivity
Sounds simple enough to implement, yet why do 7 in 10 U.S. employees believe they don’t have the needed materials and equipment to get their work done right, as reported by Gallup? Why are organizations reporting that they’re experiencing negative hits on profitability, workplace safety, and quality of output as a result? Of all the […]
How to Improve Employee Engagement: Start with Expectations
According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, only 33% of employees in the United States are engaged at work, compared to an engagement rate of 70% at the world’s best organizations. The ‘33%’ figure has lead us all to ask two key questions: What do we mean by engagement, really? How do we improve […]
How the best HR people think like Dr. Seuss
In honor of Dr. Seuss’ 113th birthday, I’ve chosen to honor this man who helped me learn how to read and enjoy laughing out loud – and now with my daughter – with a little blog. It is said over 60 books were written by Dr. Seuss, and from those I’ve chosen top life-lesson quotes – and […]
