“I love this job. The work I do is so interesting and I am finally in a job that I am learning so much. My problem is that this manager of mine is … Read more
How Much Does Financial Stress Impact Your Employee’s Time at Work?
Pwc has been surveying full-time employed adults in the U.S. nationwide about their financial well being for several years. The 2015 survey analysis and … Read more
Opportunity Cost, or What I Learned About Employee Satisfaction From SNL
Two middle-aged men walk into an elevator. The taller and heavier of the two points to the other’s t-shirt. It’s a Saturday Night Live t-shirt with a … Read more
Why Are 85% of German Employees Disengaged at Work?
I often write about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how being recognized is critical to our sense of fulfillment, hence, our productivity at work. In … Read more
Taking Initiative: It’s the Sign of a Healthy, and Highly Engaged, Workforce
“When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.” — Sam Dash, American law professor and chief … Read more
One Answer to Company Data Breaches: Better Employee Engagement
It seems we hear about more breaches of companies’ personal or financial information nearly every month. When companies suffer security breaches, costs are … Read more
Leaders Can Influence, But Every Employee Owns Their Own Engagement
I’ve been asked a couple of times recently, “Do you think ‘employee engagement’ has become just another business buzzword?” It’s a valid question and one … Read more
Engagement and Retention: One Doesn’t Always Lead to the Other
Retention and engagement have a strange relationship. Engagement can increase retention, but at the same time retention is quite apathetic to engagement. … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Information and Engagement Go Hand in Hand
Engagement is the key to employee retention and here’s an easy-to-implement, cost-free, way to get some going. Make it a practice to ask your people a … Read more
News Flash From SHRM Las Vegas: Millennials Don’t Want Feedback
Monday’s big keynote speaker at the annual SHRM conference in Las Vegas was the ever popular Marcus Buckingham. Marcus has the great English accent, high … Read more