In Winning Workplaces’ experience – when consulting with small businesses and when evaluating them as part of our annual Top Small Company Workplaces competition – when companies "share the pain" with their employees to help weather hard times, often a prime employee engagement activity is switching from a traditional five-day work week to four days, [...]
As Newswise reported two weeks ago, a University of Iowa study found that a good portion of the $134 billion that businesses spend annually on employee development strategies "could be wasted if companies don’t assure their employees that they have a promising career with the company." That’s a huge chunk of change – savings that struggling [...]
With passionate, and necessary, discussions going on now in Washington, DC, about how to trim national spending, one of their small businesses, Turner Consulting Group (TCG) – a Winning Workplaces 2011 Top Small Company Workplace award winner – has a relevant story to tell. Founded in 1994, this 35-employee firm, which provides IT-based grants management [...]
In April I mentioned that one of our small workplace honorees, Headsets.com CEO Mike Faith, would be speaking at our 2011 Leadership Conference with Inc. Magazine. I’m getting ready to pack my bags for this jam-packed, three-day event, which will be held next week in Dallas, Texas. Go here for more info. I took a [...]
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