Recognize, Recharge and Retain Employees
The company that I work for just started offering this benefit. When I had young children, childcare, was one of the biggest stresspoints ESPECIALLY during holidays and sick times. Hearing about a teacher in-service day at my kid’s school could bring on cold sweats. If you have young children you know what I mean!
This [...]
Older Bloggers have more fun? Yes, indeed.
In my Inspired Employee blog there are so many issues that affect us as workers, older workers, communicators, and people from many generations. In this blog, age is one of the many factors that contribute to a diverse workforce, along with culture, location, background, education, outlook, experience and more. [...]
We all have a lot of demands on our time at work. In addition, we have requirements, that we must adhere to…. hopefully, these are clear, concise and easy to understand.
When requirements are fuzzy or “whatever you think” it leads to confusion and frustration.
Make sure your work requirements are spelled out and reviewed, let your [...]
This kind of event is an excellent team building service project to have with a work group. Our troops really enjoy knowing that we think of them and want to show our support. There are also many activities that need to be done in this project and many times avaialbe during the last week in August. I’m [...]
What makes a GREAT team member? Who do you go to for help? Who does your manager want to hire to be a great addition to the team? It takes more than tech savvy, a great addition to a team has a sense of the people that are in the group, maintains a sense of humor, [...]
Have you ever been in a job interview and they keep asking questions such as,
“How do you handle stress?”
“How many hours of overtime do you typically work in a week?” or
“Are you available for week-end work during projects?”
Do the red warning flags start waving? Maybe the interviewer is trying to tell you …..
“There is no [...]
Do you have a ton of work specific acronyms? Have you ever said “Please run a TPS report?” If you want everyone to know what you are talking about, define your terms in the documents you use.
It is easy to do, just build a table with the acronym in one column the definition in the [...]
Each Day listed below, can be the spring board to a fun employee celebration. This is a great time for a picnic, Popsicles at work, or some patriotic music to “wake up” your first team meeting of July 4. These team building events are so important. Make sure to plan ahead AND announce the event [...]
“Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you.” –Bill Cosby
“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” –Stephen Covey
“It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment [...]
Many companies encourage volunteering in the community. There are so many great reasons to do this: building strong ties, learning about neighborhood events, sponsoring worthy causes, giving time instead of dollars, getting your company name highlighted as a sponsor, learning new skills, and building strong teams within your company.
If you have a engaged group of [...]
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