Working remotely, commonly referred to as telecommuting, virtual and work-from-home jobs, grew 27% in 2014 and 83% of human resource professionals surveyed say telecommuting will be more prevalent in the next five years1. Common remote roles include consultant, customer service representative, account manager, case manager, business development director and marketing manager. Some people work remotely…
Category: Company Culture
Employee Reviews – Five Ways to Rekindle Relationships
Most employees are full of enthusiasm and passion when they begin a new job, however 85% of companies report a sharp decline in employee morale that continues to deteriorate according to a study of 1.2 million employees at Fortune 1000 companies. Instead of approaching employee reviews with contempt and dread, follow these five tips to…
Impact of Change on Employee Engagement – Change is Personal!
Rolling into 4Q there are plenty of demands on business; finishing strong, evaluating performance, prepping for the next year. The need to modify, adapt, change is implied. When is it truly embraced? And who leads the charge? For most organizations, change has been the constant, especially in the churn of the 2007—2009 recession. Change is…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T – Find Out What It Means…
We’ve all heard the Aretha Franklin song about Respect – and quite frankly, the respect she’s looking for is something we all desire. Hence why the song lives on through the decades. Respect is an issue that can build up or tear down relationships, friendships, and even businesses. Often on the heels of respect is…
Employee Engagement Starts With…YOU
Rhett Power hits the all important nail on the head. If you’ve ever read a Dale Carnegie book, checked out a blog or attended a course, you might find one main concept that spans all content: we train you on you first. When Carnegie wrote his books and his training courses, the focus was on…
6 Tips for Better Employee Management
Employee management is, for all intents and purposes, the day-to-day engagement of employer-employee relationships on a professional, work-related level. To manage your employees well, you need to think of them less as the physical incarnation of their job roles and more as the people who make your business’ success possible. In the past, employee management…
4 Cost Effective Ways to Re-engage Your Employees
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to do someone else’s job for a day? Some organizations take this question very seriously and use it as a means of employee engagement. This is one of several low-cost tasks that management can do to increase employee engagement and discussion about job satisfaction in the…
How to Conduct an Employee Review
No matter when you do an employee review, it gives you a chance to assess your team members on an individual level. While an employee assessment process is often times looked at as an exhaustive process, it does give you a great way to be one-on-one with everyone on your team. To help you conduct…
7 Traits Exhibited by a Team Player
The ability to work effectively in a team is essential to your professional growth. If this is a concern for you, then it’s time to examine what type of primary traits you should work on developing in yourself and your employees. If others see yourself as a team player, there is a good chance that…
6 Components to Creating an Effective Business Team
Have you ever wondered why some teams complete goals efficiently and successfully while others fail? When components are missing, a team can end up elongating a process instead of completing a task. While every team is different, you will increase your chances of building a strong team by incorporating the following 6 tips from your…