Human Resources
Holistic Human Resources: Creating an Employee-Centric Culture
In any size company, those leading the team are playing a dual game: build the best customer experience you possibly can in order to be highly profitable AND create a culture that employees deeply love their jobs. Great leaders know that those two tasks are actually intertwined, but it can be easy to place a…
Business Goals
Keep Your Eye on the Prize
One of the greatest challenges you have as you lead your team is to keep the entire team pulling together in the same direction. Team leaders – business owners, human resources professionals, managers – address this challenge in a myriad of ways. Many teams have adopted the principal of setting SMART goals at intentional planning…
Human Resources
Three Keys to Employee Retention
Employee retention is a huge area of focus for all business owners. When it comes right down to it, it is far more costly and challenging to hire and train someone new than it is to retain someone who is doing a great job. Creating and maintaining a workplace where your employees thrive and feel…
Retriever Users
Three Things to Post on Your Digital Sign
Companies using digital signage in the workplace understand the economic and attention-grabbing value of a dynamic, colorful sign. But many companies are under-utilizing this tool in their business. We get it – when you’ve always used a tool a certain way, it can be easy to overlook the value of that tool for other solutions…
Human Resources
Four Common Misconceptions About Your Staff
When you lead a team as an HR leader, executive, or owner, you are afforded a perspective on your business, on your team, that few have the opportunity to share. Your vantage point as a leader allows you to see the holistic structure of your company. Yet, the advantage of being a leader also means…
Digital Signage
Digital Signage: Consider Your Options
When it comes to any optimization for your business, it can be hard to make sense of which features will really matter to you in application. As business owners, we get that – we’re constantly making decisions about software and hardware and weighing the benefits and drawbacks of something new without fully understanding the impact…
Human Resources
Starting Fresh in the New Year
The holidays often provide a welcome opportunity to take a break, remind each other how important they are to us, and rest. As the new year begins, though, it’s an opportunity to embrace new habits and set intentions for the next year that will take you – and your team – to the next level….
Human Resources
Three Ways to Thank Your Employees at the Holidays
The holiday season can be intense in any business. There are fewer working hours in the month, for some industries the workload increases considerably, and there’s a lot competing for the attention of your employees and your customers. Let us not forget, however, the magic of the holidays amidst the chaos of the season. As…
Human Resources
The Value of Engaged Employees
If you’re looking to improve your bottom line and your workplace culture, employee engagement is the place to start. When you’re aiming to increase employee engagement, however, it’s incredibly narrow to equate that with employee satisfaction or happiness, although an engaged employee may also be happy and satisfied at work. Employee engagement is the level of buy in…
Business Goals
Tips for Working Ahead for the Holiday Break
When you have an upcoming vacation, you start daydreaming about the ways you’ll fill your freetime: sleeping in, reading a good book, family gatherings, binging that new show on Netflix… However, the reality of taking a vacation from your job means that you may need to work ahead to keep things going while you’re out….
Small Business
Great Communication for Business Owners
When you own a small business, it can feel like you’re constantly repeating yourself. Owners burden the full risk and responsibility of their business, so everything holds a higher stake for them than their employees. Employees in a small business are constantly looking to their owners and leaders to set the direction and lead the…
Human Resources
How Digital Signage Supports HR
Digital Signage can typically seem like a marketing or even an IT solution. Unless you’re already using digital signage in your company, you may be missing opportunities to unify your messaging to your employees in an efficient, effective way that saves you time and money. We live in an age where everyone has infinite…
Marketing
Reclaim the Wait
Let’s just say it: waiting is the worst. No one, at any age, enjoys a wait. Waiting can feel frustrating, and that frustration is an unwelcome brand message regardless of who’s being asked to wait, be it employees or customers. What if waiting didn’t feel like waiting? What if our wait time felt like an…
Human Resources
Developing a Culture of Gratitude
Amid the daily hustle and bustle, it can be easy to overlook opportunities to show your team how critical they are to your business. As we settle into the holiday season, however, it’s increasingly critical to remind your team that they’re important and valued by both the customers and the company’s leadership. Expressing gratitude to…
Digital Signage
Does Your Digital Signage…?
When we created Retriever, we did it with our customers in mind. In fact, we did it because we saw the need among our existing customers, so every aspect of our Retriever system was made with the user in mind. While we’re certainly not the only digital signage solution on the market, we believe we’re…
Communication
Three Signs Your Communication is Ineffective
You’re not alone. Everyone struggles with communication challenges. In an age where everyone is connected and every friend, relative and brand is competing for attention, it can be nearly impossible to cut through the noise unless what you’re saying is sensational or controversial. In fact, most people think they’re doing a great job of communicating,…