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
Improve Your Communication, Improve Your Employee Retention
In manufacturing, one of the biggest and most frustrating challenges is employee retention. For HR leaders in the field, their job requires constant energy spent in recruitment, onboarding, and communicating… and re-communicating. When the labor pool is small, employee retention is all the more critical: when you find good, qualified employees, you want to keep…
Small Business
The Biggest Challenge Facing Small Business Owners
As small business owners ourselves, we get it – ensuring that your customers and employees are happy with your business while maintaining an appropriate amount of growth and a healthy ROI can be a constant balancing act. Small business owners wear a number of hats and may function in a number of roles on their…
Human Resources
3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…
Business Goals
How to Crowdsource Engaging Content
Creating fresh and engaging content for your digital signage on a regular basis will help to keep the people viewing it engaged, which can feel like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be the case. Whether your digital signage is aimed to engage your customers, your employees, your students, or someone else entirely,…
Human Resources
Ensuring Success for New Hires
The first 90 days of a new appointment is make it or break it for your new employees. Your company’s communication strategy is a critical element of your company’s onboarding process if you want to retain the great people you’ve recruited. “Your goal in every transition is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point,” writes Michael D….
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…
Business Goals
Employee Engagement: Why It Matters
Businesses in every industry and at every size are talking about employee engagement, perhaps ad nauseam. Sometimes terms like “employee engagement” can start to lose its potency as we keep talking about it, but never find anything that makes a difference. But, employee engagement is one of the best ways to improve your day to day and reach…
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…