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Employee Wellness

Tips To Maintain Employee Wellness While Minimizing Turnover

A healthy company culture that promotes employee satisfaction in a remote environment will positively affect company morale and your bottom line. When employees feel supported by a positive work environment that includes transparency, communication, support networks, and work-life balance, productivity increases while turnover rates decrease. Read on for tips to maintain employee wellness by prioritizing […]

Employee Engagement

3 Steps to Improve Employee Engagement and Productivity

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to improving employee engagement and productivity. If your company wants to move the needle, you must consider a broad range of employee engagement solutions. However, it doesn’t end there; you’ll need to adjust them to meet your specific needs to achieve the most benefits for your company and your employees. […]

Feedback

Feedback from Employees: 3 Simple Questions to Ask

The first thing I do in any almost any new client engagement is survey their clients and employees. It’s critical to getting the information I need to get the results the client wants. It immediately tells me if the client is living their brand promise, if there are customer service issues that need to be […]

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In Praise of More Meetings

What’s needed are more meetings. Everyone in any kind of growing company should be in some kind of five to 15-minute focused, purposeful meeting on a regular basis. Yes, I know everyone is busy, and we’ve learned to hate meetings. But not the kind of short and focused meetings I’m talking about. Even if it’s […]

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Lessons in Leadership from Sally Ride

What lessons in leadership are left to us by Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut to be launched into space? She died July 23, 2012 at 61 of pancreatic cancer. She was president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 to improve science education for kids, which she called […]

Dogfish Head Brewery: What Happens When You Hire the Right People

About a week or two before our annual trip to the Delaware seashore, my husband starts getting excited. It’s not just the promise of sand, sun, and the boardwalks. You see, he’s a huge beer aficionado with his particular favorite being Dogfish Head Brewery. Dogfish Head Brewery is based in Milton, DE with a great brewpub very […]

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Feedback: 4 Tips to Turn Criticisms into Collaborations

Constructive Criticism for Business Leaders Constructive criticism focuses on what people have done and can do, rather than targeting their character or personality. If people believe their failures result from personal, unchangeable deficits, they lose hope and stop trying. Let them know that setbacks and mistakes result from circumstances they can change. It’s not easy […]