“I deeply resent how we’ve infantilized the workplace. How we feel we have to apologize for having lives. That we don’t trust adults to make the right decisions. How constant […]
Designing a Workspace to Engage and Inspire
When you hear the word “office,” what do you picture? A sea of cubicles separated by six-foot walls? Low ceilings and artificial lighting? Strangely patterned carpeting? Gray upon gray upon […]
Employee Engagement: Three Steps to Borrow from Customer Engagement
Every year, organizations invest significant time and money to understand and appease their customers, while often overlooking their most important customer and asset: employees. But, employee engagement is critical to business […]
Company Culture 101: Five Questions to Ask Yourself
These days, most people understand why it’s important for a company to have engaged employees. But where it gets much trickier is the how – how do you make sure […]
5 Ways to Welcome a New Employee
Recently, we’ve seen some new faces in our hallways. I couldn’t help but wonder how they were acclimating to their new daily environment. Starting a new job is a daunting […]
Keeping Employees Engaged in the Ever-Evolving Workplace
In today’s world, change is the new norm. In college, I vividly remember my favorite professor telling the class that we would soon enter the workforce with job titles that […]
What Your Employee Engagement Survey Can’t Do
I’ve had several conversations lately about annual employee engagement surveys – it’s about that time of year when people are either reviewing results or preparing to conduct a survey, depending […]