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 [...]
A perennial political issue, and one that has become even more of a hot button this year in the run-up to the midterm elections in the midst of a tough economy, is the extent to which government creates the conditions for business growth. I found what amounts to an underreported Cheap Accutane story about how [...]
I’ve referenced Bob Rosner a number of times here. It’s evident from his work at Workplace911, his guest blogging at Today’s Workplace, and in his best-selling book for managers The Boss’s Survival Guide that greater employee engagement is a top priority for him. A few weeks ago I saw that The Wall Street Journal‘s The [...]
I like to reference this statistic that appears on our website when I see folks challenge the notion that there is no payoff of employee engagement: From the period of 1998 to 2006, the stock of the companies identified in FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” list outperformed that of the [...]
Late last year, citing both Small Business CEO and several small firms that have won Winning Workplaces’ annual workplace award, I made the case that giving back to your community is not just good for your brand, it helps strengthen your employee engagement for a more cohesive and productive workplace culture. One strategy in this [...]
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