This week winning Workplaces added some new research summaries to our website which speak to how investing in your workplace can improve your competitiveness and bottom line. One of these, a study released last month by the leading online employment platform oDesk, traces the steady growth in contractors used by companies – both because they [...]
Business owners attribute competitive advantage to their business model, value proposition, innovation, as well as the "smarts" I mentioned in this post on Patrick Lencioni’s session (among others) at our conference last month with Inc. Magazine. But as a new special report by Workforce Management makes clear, employee engagement is just as much a driver [...]
Did you know that when it comes to the newest and best research on investing in your workplace for better team building and other desired outcomes, we have a repository on our website? That’s right, it’s here, it’s free – and it’s significant: 40% of the total educational content (some 500 articles) we’ve provided since 2001 on [...]
Among the nearly 350 small and midsize organizations that applied for our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award earlier this year, 96% have a strategic plan. No surprise there, right? (In fact, I find it more surprising that in this tough economy, 4% are getting by without one.) However, when I looked at the vast majority [...]
I love LinkedIn. I’ve blogged before about its value, especially considering it’s free except for your time (though there are fees if you want to post jobs there). In the past I’ve used the business-themed social networking site to gather opinions on Zappos’ "leaving bonus," and I referenced its Group feature as a lead-driving tool. [...]
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