Category Archives: Employee Engagement

Let’s Play! How Gamification Can Improve Employee Engagement

Robert ErichOctober 15, 2015 Everybody likes to be rewarded. Parents treat cleanup time as a game of scavenger hunt for their kids. Teachers often give gold stars or classroom currency to students for good behavior. Mary Poppins famously sang, “just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” This is gamification–making the ordinary or … Continue reading Let’s Play! How Gamification Can Improve Employee Engagement →

6 Benefits of Employee Monitoring

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Victoria VessellaOctober 12, 2015 It can be difficult for managers of remote teams to ensure that their employees in the field are working to their fullest potential. Without a means of tracking their activities, managers are forced to do a lot of guessing about what employees are doing throughout the course of a day. Luckily, … Continue reading 6 Benefits of Employee Monitoring →

Are You Investing In Employee Development Or Waiting On LinkedIn?

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Adrienne WhittenSeptember 29, 2015 Employers are struggling to find the skills and talent they need and employees often struggle to keep up with an ever changing set of technical skills. Meanwhile, independent online courses and MOOCS are exploding, and you have companies like LinkedIn betting billions on the idea that employees will train themselves with … Continue reading Are You Investing In Employee Development Or Waiting On LinkedIn? →

5 Inspiring Ways Companies Are Engaging Their Employees

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Darby WilliamsSeptember 24, 2015 This level of concern is based on very real problems faced by organizations. 87% of global workers are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work (Gallup “State of the Global Workplace Report”, 2013) 76% of employees feel it is necessary that their company invests in their personal career development … Continue reading 5 Inspiring Ways Companies Are Engaging Their Employees →

Improving Employee Engagement For Millennials Via The Hiring Process

Employee Engagement

Daniel JamesSeptember 18, 2015 Short & Sweet Version: Millennials want to become leaders of the company they currently work for, but they think they lack leadership abilities. Use the hiring process to identify leadership qualities in millennial job candidates, and then help them understand how they can grow those abilities to eventually take on leadership … Continue reading Improving Employee Engagement For Millennials Via The Hiring Process →

How to Bring Out the Best in Your Employees

Employee Engagement

Jamie NicholSeptember 17, 2015 One of my first managers told me that the core of her job was to help her team be the best they can be. While those words always stuck with me, I think that mentality sometimes gets lost among the administrative details of management. Here are four simple tenets to help … Continue reading How to Bring Out the Best in Your Employees →

The One Person You’re Not Paying Enough Attention to At Work

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Joel DolisySeptember 11, 2015 Understanding the business value IT professionals bring and a call to celebrate IT Professionals Day Imagine the world without technology—void of computers, the Internet and smartphones. I know, it’s difficult to do. Technology not only plays an enormous role in the way we live, communicate and interact with each other on … Continue reading The One Person You’re Not Paying Enough Attention to At Work →

5 Strategies Best Places To Work Use To Engage Employees

Employee Engagement

Ryan MeadAugust 29, 2015 You and your employees see Forbes’ Best Places to Work every year. Although they love the company, you know there are specific pieces of the puzzle missing to make your organization part of that list. While it might not be on the list yet, the company is on its way to … Continue reading 5 Strategies Best Places To Work Use To Engage Employees →

How To Improve Job Satisfaction In A Growing Company

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Jacob ShriarAugust 19, 2015 How is it that some big companies are so bad at job satisfaction? It makes little sense. If anything, big companies should understand the importance of job satisfaction since they have so many resources at their disposal. A study by researchers at Baylor University found that employees of small businesses feel … Continue reading How To Improve Job Satisfaction In A Growing Company →

Gamification: The Savior Of Employee Productivity

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Jeremy BoudinetAugust 11, 2015 Less than one-third (31.5%) of U.S. workers were engaged in their jobs in 2014, according to a 2015 Gallup poll. Here’s how Gamification can improve that metric. Looking for a new form of Monday Motivation? Gamification may be your answer. According to a recent survey, 78% of workers are utilizing games-based motivation at work, via performance-based contests, leaderboards, … Continue reading Gamification: The Savior Of Employee Productivity →