Management Goal Setting for the New Year
Management goal setting and New Year’s seem to go hand-in-hand. We make our resolutions and set new goals. How many of us actually achieve them? In a study conducted by YouGovAmerica from December 16-21, 2022, the findings report that 37% of Americans say they have a goal or resolution to accomplish in 2023. Of this […]
Want to See Business Growth in the Organization? Tap the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Want to see positive change in your organization? Consider how you tap into your employee’s entrepreneurial or gig mindset. How? You’ve heard or read about “that” brave soul who took a leap of faith, quit his job, and started his own thriving business. Or that digital nomad who ditched her demanding job for a relaxed […]
Creating a Workplace Culture of Engaged Workers
You know that employee engagement is important, but do you know how your corporate culture affects engagement? Your company’s culture has a direct influence on how engaged your employees are, and if your culture suffers, so does engagement levels. According to Gallup research, your employees will be most engaged when they are treated as stakeholders […]
Improve Happiness to Improve Engagement In Government Agencies
Employee engagement is important for U.S. government agency performance. According to new research, engagement appears even more important for local and state government as disengaged employees reportedly cost the U.S. up to $100 billion annually. According to Gallup’s research findings reported in the article, Unhappy State, Local Government Workers Cost U.S. Billions, 71 percent of […]
Slipping Engagement Levels Leaves Leaders Wondering What To Do Next
While engagement levels are still higher compared to the same time in 2015, levels slipped to 32.7 percent in May after the two previous months remained above 33 percent, according to U.S. Employee Engagement Slips Below 33% in May. Employee engagement levels have steadily increased over the past three years, and levels in 2015 largely […]
Engage Employees, Decrease Stress and Promote Cooperation with Team Building
Employees are important to the success of any organization. With excess stress, however, disengaged employees and a lack of company-wide cooperation, organizations suffer to succeed. Team building activities with a few key strategies are a great way to turn attitudes around resulting in a culture of cooperation. Here are a few team building tactics to […]
Promote a Culture of Belonging through Corporate Team Building
The results of the Globoforce 2014 UK and Ireland Workforce Mood Tracker survey are in, and the survey found that organizations that encourage a sense of belonging and workplace friendships among employees enjoy higher employee retention rates and engagement. Through corporate team building tactics, leaders can foster these relationships among their employees. “This year’s survey […]
TIGERS® Success Series 2014 Team Building Blog Recap Part Three: Employee Engagement
Welcome to part three of our four-part 2014 blog recap series. The past two weeks have been focused on the year in Polls, Research, and Surveys and Management, Leadership, and HR Issues. This week we are moving into Employee Engagement, which varies in topics from emotional commitment to job satisfaction to involvement. Because employee engagement […]
Health and Engagement Goals Reduce High Health Care Costs
Stress kills. We all know this. So it makes good sense that executives who want to keep health costs to a minimum during shifts toward Obamacare would focus on employee health and engagement goals. As companies strive to keep workers healthier and stem the tide of higher health care costs, it is sensible to embrace […]
Replace a Cut-Throat Work Culture with an Empathetic Culture To Spark Engagement
When you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you understand their situation, feelings, and motives. That’s empathy…and today’s corporations, leaders, and employees seem to come up short on this basic soft skill. Empathy is a skill important to building good workforce relationships. When individuals are empathetic, they recognize emotions being experienced by another, […]
