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
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…
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…
Human Resources
5 Ways to Encourage Your Employees
We’ve all been there. The workload is heavy, the work feels monotonous, and going to work just feels like a slog. When you’re in a funk, you need something to disrupt the daily grind, something that helps you remember why you’re there in the first place. Disheartened, tired employees need their leaders to step into…
Human Resources
9 Ways Digital Signage Helps HR Managers
As the creators of Retriever Digital Signage, we work with an array of businesses who are using digital signage to get their message across to a number of audiences, in a number of ways. But, when we look at our customer base, we see a major trend of people for whom Retriever has been a…
Human Resources
The Secret to Employee Satisfaction
We all want to create a workplace culture that adds to our employees’ lives. We all want happy, satisfied employees who do great work, stick around, and find joy in their work. But, depending on the size of your business and the type of work your employees do, striking this balance can be a challenge….
Human Resources
Four Great Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Team
The greatest asset of any business is the people who work there, but it’s easy to lose track of opportunities to show your team how much they matter in the day-to-day hustle and bustle. While expressing gratitude and appreciation to your team feels like a soft HR concept, it actually has a significant impact on…
Human Resources
Three Secrets to Keeping Your Best Employees
Finding great people, and keeping them, is paramount to your business’s longterm success. Too often, it seems like the conversation on employee retention is mostly directed at salary, and while it’s important to pay your people competitively, there’s more to the story when it comes to employee retention. Have you ever known someone who was stuck in…
Human Resources
Building a Team: 5 Tips for Effective Onboarding
We’ve written about how expensive it can be to your company to lose your valuable team members to employee turnover. It’s equally important to remember that onboarding a new employee is one of the most important steps to building a successful team. More often than not “bad hires” are actually good employees who weren’t well-integrated into your team. A successful employee onboarding…
Human Resources
The Real Cost of Employee Turnover
Your business’ most important asset is your employees. Recruiting the right people to your team is one challenge, but keeping them there requires a strong communications strategy and commitment to employee satisfaction. When you do lose an employee, you probably think about the costs of hiring someone new as advertising for the position, possibly contracting a recruitment service, or paying a temporary replacement. In reality,…
Human Resources
Celebrate Your Team!
When you have the right team assembled, you want to keep them. We all already know that its significantly more expensive to hire a new employee than it is to retain a good one, and we’re convinced you can retain your great team without expending tons of extra time, effort, and money. Here are three great ways…
Digital Signage
3 Ways Top Managers are Using Digital Signage
As corporations grow, many are increasing the number of digital screens within their workspace. Digital signage is a great tool for Human Resources, but they also lend themselves to department managers as a replacement for incessant emails, memos, and interruptions to the workday. Digital signage offers the tools your company needs to track performance, inform employees of important policies…
Human Resources
Tips for Retaining Great Employees
Human Resources managers know, it costs an organization far more to hire a new employee in place of retaining (and even retraining) your employees. Keeping your people happy is a moving target, but there are some essential truths every business can put into place to have a better shot at keeping their people on their teams. Here are…
Human Resources
Why Individuality Retains Employees Longer
Educators strive and frequently succeed in making students feel valued as individuals. Educational initiatives like Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, professional development initiatives for educators focused on differentiation, and opportunities to celebrate students individually through awards, achievements, and special days ensure that at some point, by the time a student graduates, they’ll have been made…
Human Resources
How Great Human Resources Managers Celebrate Individuality
Human Resources directors know that when your employees feel like they are seen, heard, and valued, a business thrives. We live in the age of the “selfie,” the “personal profile,” the “doubleshot grande iced soy mocha latte,” an age when individualism is everything. But, how do you emphasize the individuals in your big company while taking care of all…
Business Goals
3 Ways the Retriever can Shake up Workplace Communication
What’s on your desk right now that would be beneficial, morale boosting even, for your employees to see? Are those customer satisfaction letters sitting in a pile having only been read by you? Have you thanked the employee who went above and beyond lately? Does anyone know where the company stands with quarterly sales? What can…