8 Small Businesses With Memorable Names
September 3, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Late last year America’s Best Companies shared tips on naming a business. At the top of their list was to make it "memorable, quirky, and unique."
Much more recently (on Tuesday) I saw this post from Lennie Rose on her blog for Big Ooga, a Chicago area resource for finding and connecting with accomplished entrepreneurs, in [...]
10 Ways Our Award-Winning Small Businesses Find and Keep Great Employees
July 27, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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I enjoyed this post by Susan Fronk on the America’s Best Business Practices blog. In it she argues that the one thing that can most positively impact your small business – over and above measures to grow revenue, cut costs, and deliver excellent customer service – is finding and keeping great employees.
She provides more value [...]
20 Effective Employee Learning Initiatives for Small Businesses
July 3, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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The business justification for employee engagement focused on their continued, on-the-job learning is easy to understand. It’s a win for employees who increase their skills and become more marketable in their careers; and the company wins because their talent has a greater ability to perform at top levels and to innovate, and it’s less of [...]
Pushing Back on Two Comments on NY Jets’ 2010 Top Small Company Workplace Award
June 15, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Some of the most (and most vociferous) comments I’ve seen related to the announcement of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces last week in the June issue of Inc. Magazine – firms whose human capital strategies contribute to their revenue growth and profitability – appear in response to this post by Manish Mehta on The Jets Stream [...]
Inc. Magazine Has Some Cool Extras in Their Coverage of Our 2010 Small Biz Award Winners
June 9, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Since Monday I’ve been blogging about our big news of the year (so far): the announcement of Winning Workplaces’ 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces in the new, June issue of Inc. Magazine. On Monday I shared ROI metrics that support their investment in innovative people practices. And yesterday I discussed two quantitative data points where [...]
