Employee Engagement Key to Realizing Entrepreneurial Dreams

I like Dragan Sutevski’s comparison on his Entrepreneurship In a Box blog of running a business to being in a dream.  According to Sutevski, there are only a handful of factors keeping this experience from turning into a nightmare.
Number 7 on his top 10 list that he shared this weekend is employees:
Your employees can contribute [...]

Upcoming Free Webinar on Employee Engagement

Regular readers of our blog are familiar with on-demand employee recognition solutions provider Globoforce.  I’ve mentioned them in these three posts, and their VP of Global Strategy, Derek Irvine, commented on one of them.

I just saw on PR Web that Globoforce is partnering with Aberdeen Group to host a FREE webinar March 4 on recognizing [...]

There’s Value in Low Employee Engagement, Too

Much of what I write about here deals with the payoff of employee engagement when it’s high.  But what is a company to do when it’s modest?  Or – as is often the case for firms that do not actively measure this, or that haven’t in quite some time – when it’s low?

Martha Finney wrote [...]

Is There a Better Employee Motivator Than a Competitor?

Linking to this article on BNET, which talks about how Apple’s Steve Jobs motivates his employees, SmartBrief on Leadership advises, "To fire up employees, give them an enemy."  ("Enemy" in this case refers to one of Apple’s chief rivals, Google.)
I don’t know if I agree with this assessment.  While it’s certainly important to watch what [...]

Team Building for Employee Benefit

There are several ideas for team building activities. These range from simple child’s play strenuous exercise group. The choice of activity depends on the purpose of the activity. It can be for a newly merged team to develop communication skills, adaptability, and so on. The most popular idea of team building is a departure from [...]

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