Guitar Magazine Poll: Team Building Matters More Than Skills

Back in March I wrote this post, which expanded on a point made by Marisa Keegan at Fistful of Talent to argue that employers should draw a line in the sand and hire for attitude and fit over skills.  The justification for doing so is a greater tendency for your employees and teams to create [...]

At Least Seven of Our 2010 Award-Winning SMBs Had 2009 Turnover That Was Better Than Their Industry

Earlier this month I shared data from our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces employee engagement research which showed that the 20 winners of our award this year had better (which is to say, lower) average 2009 turnover than the 20 finalists.  But how do the winners compare to their industry?
From the preliminary research we’ve done [...]

Businesses with Fewer Than 50 Employees Alone in Employing MORE People Over Last Decade

A trend of extremely small businesses – those with fewer than 50 employees; the majority of American employers – is that they have historically been underserved compared to their larger peers.  This, in fact, is a primary reason why Winning Workplaces was founded in 2001 – to equip leaders of these firms with effective, bottom [...]

Western U.S. Has More Faith in ‘Move Your Money’ to Help Small Biz Grow Than Other Parts of Country

In Winning Workplaces’ latest IDEAS newsletter on employee engagement and team building strategies in small firms, we wrote a feature on the "Move Your Money" movement after we sent a survey on it to registered users of our website and others in our network.
We listed selected qualitative feedback of our 172 respondents to the question, [...]

Comcast Cares Day Volunteers Pitch in at More Than 50 Sites Across New England on Annual Day of Service

Comcast Cares Day Volunteers Pitch in at More Than 50 Sites Across New England on Annual Day of Service
As part of the ninth annual Comcast Cares Day, one of the largest single-day corporate volunteer efforts in the country, local Comcast employees and their family members and friends will volunteer at dozens of community sites across [...]

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