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 [...]
What are successful small and midsize businesses doing to recognize and reward workers who consistently go beyond the call of duty? You may be surprised to learn that, at least among our employee engagement research sample, the 342 firms that recently completed an application for Winning Workplaces’ 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award, the tendency is [...]
I always enjoy hearing about how small businesses think outside the box in their marketing strategies to create buzz and, through so doing, win the business of customers or clients that might not otherwise have known about them. Toilet Paper Entrepreneur author Mike Michalowicz shares an example of this he came across today on his [...]
Yesterday I shared the extent to which organizations in government services that applied for Winning Workplaces and Inc. Magazine’s 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award use some employee development strategies to create a more knowledgeable and productive workplace culture. Today I’d like to expand on this to cover ALL learning tools we surveyed, used by [...]
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