Although we consider ourselves extremely vocal when it comes to promoting the link between staff engagement activities and long-term company growth, Winning Workplaces is by no means the only organization shouting this from the soapbox. Just last week, SJF Institute (with whom we’ve previously collaborated to produce content to help you improve your people practices) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I enjoyed this post by Jim Estill on his CEO Blog – Time Leadership. Estill shares a story told by Freakonomics author Steven Levitt about a "lowly IRS clerk" whose idea, once implemented – to start requiring the Social Security Number of children on tax forms to rid the system of kids that were added for [...]
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