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…
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…
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
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…
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,…
Human Resources
Onboard well!
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 started on the wrong foot. During employee onboarding, you have the opportunity to give a new employee a sense of belonging as a part of your team, as well as…
Human Resources
Increase Your Employee Retention with These Three Tips
There is way more at play than money, when it comes to employee retention. We all know it’s hard to keep our best people, and it costs a lot more to hire a new employee than it does to retain a good one. But, when our employees begin to disengage, they take their first steps…
Human Resources
What Your Bulletin Board Isn’t For
If you’re trying to communicate with a busy workforce, time is of the essence. There’s only one of you, so the best thing you can do to ensure that your message gets across is to utilize effective communication strategies. Most offices employ a bulletin board to assist with getting the word out, but here’s the…
Human Resources
Three Factors Impacting Your Employees’ Attention
In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. But it’s not, is it? In fact, you probably spend more time than ever repeating yourself and trying to roll out new policies. Why is it so much harder to communicate with…
Business Goals
The Simple Trick to Stop Repeating Yourself
Monday morning staff meeting, you roll out a new and important employee procedure. You tell the story about what led to this procedure, you talk about it in detail, and you make it clear that this is a mandatory and immediate change. By Wednesday, though, your team has forgotten, and you find yourself repeating the…
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
Make Your Employees Happy
The HR landscape has changed a lot over the last decade. Thanks to modern technology and improvements in communication, the job of the HR representative has transitioned into a role far more concerned with recruitment, retention, and shaping the culture of the business itself. As a result, the HR representative, more now than ever, is…
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….