One of the perks of being a small businesses that enjoys a payoff of employee engagement is the publicity value that comes with winning awards. For example, our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces received over $20,000 in free publicity from radio and TV spots alone. For these companies that place a premium on team engagement [...]
In 1985, Paul Silvis founded Restek Corporation in Bellefonte, PA, as a manufacturer of chromatography tools for the analytical sciences industry. Silvis, who has spoken at our annual conference in the past and is set to speak again next week at our joint event with Inc. Magazine in Denver, has been candid about having the technical [...]
Back in March I shared a link to a Raleigh News & Observer article that featured two Winning Workplaces-affiliated organizations: The Redwoods Group, our 2008 Top Small Workplace winner and a certified B Corporation, and B Lab, the group of our Top Small Workplaces judge Bart Houlahan (who judged for our workplace award program starting [...]
Winning Workplaces believes that better engagement of employees equals better business results. But we don’t just talk the talk here – we walk the walk! The notion I mentioned above that’s the essence of our tagline is instilled in our nonprofit primarily from our founder and Chairman, Ken Lehman. It’s well known that the company his family [...]
One of the employee retention tips I mention most often here, based on its success rate at our award-winning small and midsized businesses, is hiring for attitude and fit – even over skills – to keep the atmosphere of team building strong and, thus, your workplace culture productive. Owners and leaders of these companies report [...]
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