Integrity. Respect. Innovation. Collaboration. Chances are, if you’ve read up on corporate values at all, these are all words you’ve heard tossed around time and time again. Don’t get me […]
Building a Culture of Trust
“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 […]