Reenergize Employee Productivity to Increase Profits
Employee productivity is frequently related to profitability. When you think of profitability, several factors probably come to mind. Included are labor, overhead and production costs. However, If you aren’t factoring in employee productivity, you’re missing a key metric. According to Gallup, employee productivity is the basis for human development and economic growth. Poor employee productivity […]
Use Top-Down Approach for Better Employee Engagement
Employee engagement may sound like an optional concern. A back burner issue. If leaders truly want a successful and satisfied workforce, however, then they need to start paying attention. According to Gallup research, 91 percent of employees have left their company to change positions, and 35 percent of employees have done so in the past […]
Fix Group Behavior Norms to Fix Employee Engagement Problems
A disengaged workforce is one of the most costly problems most organizations face. The global economy experiences $7 trillion in lost productivity annually because of poor employee engagement. $7,000,000,000,000! That’s a lot of zeros. The good news is that group behavior norms offer a viable and measurable solution. According to Gallup’s recent State of the […]
Employee Engagement: TIGERS® 2017 Blog Recap Part Two
Welcome to the second installment of our three-part recap series of all of our 2017 articles. In our first installment, we reviewed everything from our Management, Leadership and HR issues category, which covered a multitude of topics. Most notable were leadership skills and growth, delegation tactics, daily habits and hiring strategies, among many more. Make […]
When Creating a Flexible Workplace Offer Options to Telecommute
Whether you like the idea or hate it, one thing is clear. More employees are spending time in a flexible workplace with the offer to work remotely and telecommute. According to Gallup research and America’s Coming Workplace: Home Alone, 43 percent of American employees worked from home in some capacity in 2016. Thirty-one percent spent […]
Employee Engagement Success Strategies Build Loyalty
So, how’s work? I asked a friend this question last week and he said he was looking for a new job. He added that he had been with the current company for three years. No one in senior leadership or human resources discussed a career path with him. He viewed his job as a dead […]
A Winning Corporate Culture Builds Employee Retention
Certain companies carry the reputation of being a fun place to work, with break rooms boasting ping pong tables and cafeterias full of free food. But your company’s culture includes so much more than fun and games. It’s how your employees interact with one another and their customers. It’s how leaders motivate their team members […]
Creating a Workplace Culture of Engaged Workers
You know that employee engagement is important, but do you know how your corporate culture affects engagement? Your company’s culture has a direct influence on how engaged your employees are, and if your culture suffers, so does engagement levels. According to Gallup research, your employees will be most engaged when they are treated as stakeholders […]
Battling Millennial Disengagement
Millennials (those people born between 1980 and 1996), now represent about 38 percent of the U.S. workforce, and by 2025, that number will likely soar to 75 percent. It’s troubling then to find that only 29 percent of millennials are engaged in their positions, according to Gallup research. The Gallup report, How Millennials Want to […]
Overcoming Bad Management
Sam said, “I can’t take this place anymore,” and he sent out his resume and nailed a great job. Sam, like many workers in the US are changing companies now. With the economic turnaround and leaders raising salaries, why are people changing jobs? The reason Sam provided was that he had no way of overcoming […]