What’s Next…?
I am often asked what the key is to Employee Engagement. We start with reasonable pay and essential health benefits but those are simply qualifiers for satisfaction. Employee Engagement addresses the intangibles that go above and beyond “job requirements”. Employee Engagement speaks to the things that allow us to love our job: • Recognition of [...]
An Ounce of Prevention
We hear it all the time- Americans need to eat healthier (and less), exercise more, and in general, take better care of ourselves.
Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Employer…
Oscar Wilde once said, “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
I Quit!
This certainly seems to be the week for dramatic exits…with Steven Slater of Jet Blue of course taking the cake. Slater got into an argument with a disobedient passenger who would not close his overhead bin and sit down until the plane taxied to a stop.
Jump Onboard!
We’ve all experienced it…the dreaded first day at a new job. You are given the requisite tour of the office, training materials to read through, perhaps some videos to watch. And then what? Most likely, you dread coming back the next day for more of the same, or only to sit at someone’s elbow as [...]
Rewarding Managers for Engagement
In the struggling economy, employee engagement came to the forefront more than ever, with employers wondering how to motivate staff that had seen colleagues laid off, taken on more work for the same (or less) pay, and often feared for their own jobs.
Recognition Can Be a Piece of Cake
Today I read a post on the Fistful of Talent blog by Marisa Keegan in which she gives her thoughts on a recent episode of the show Cake Boss in which Buddy (the boss) decides to create an employee of the month program to motivate his staff. She details the crimes against recognition he commits [...]
MY PROBLEM WITH EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION DAY
There are a lot of cynics when it comes to holidays. The lovers have Valentine’s Day, while single folks find it too commercial; Italian-American’s celebrate their heritage on Columbus Day, but it’s offensive to Native Americans; the eco-conscious have Earth Day, but even that has its critics…you get the picture. Well today, March 5, is [...]
“Cocoa is for Cobblers” – How Not to Reward and Motivate Your Team
Tomorrow is Christmas and somewhere Santa’s elves are hard at work trying to finish cobbling gifts for all the good little girls and boys. In this classic SNL holiday spoof of Glengarry Glen Ross’ “Coffee is for Closers Only” scene, we learn that rewards like a new toboggan, some candy canes and a few shiny [...]
Taking on the world’s recognition problems, one blog post at a time!
