Home Grown People Practices of Our 2011 Workplace Award Applicants – #1

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Our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces Award Application Is Now OPEN

Winning Workplaces is excited to announce that our online application for our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award, with our partner Inc. Magazine, is now open. Go here to apply; the link also contains information to learn a lot more about the award, including 2011 eligibility requirements, frequently asked questions, testimonials from 2010 applicants about [...]

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Tag Cloud: Top Business Wishes of Our Small Workplace Award Honorees

We sent our final IDEAS newsletter for 2010 to our email subscribers yesterday.  In it was this article sharing the results of our latest annual survey of winners of finalists of our annual award that assesses their ability to reap a payoff of employee engagement and team building strategies in the current economic climate. One survey [...]

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Our Great Workplace Award Honorees More Optimistic About Next 12 Months Than Constant Contact …

Late last month I shared the preliminary results of our 2010 annual survey of Winning Workplaces’ hundreds of winners and finalists of our small workplace awards.  Today I took a fresh look at the results — at the same time that Reuters Small Business came out with an "exclusive" look at comparable data, Constant Contact’s [...]

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Our 6-Year-Old, 2010 SMB Award Applicant Firms Have 19 Times the Mean Sales of Those Measured …

Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has an illuminating post on Small Business Trends this week in which, based on U.S. Census data of 6-year-old businesses, he shows that the typical (or median) entrepreneur’s sales are below the average (or mean) sales in 9 sectors.  Shane writes that this distinction [...]

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