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…
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…
Business Goals
Is Your Workspace Sparking Joy?
On average, people spend 1/3 of their entire lives at work – that’s about 90,000 hours! The aesthetic of your space and the health of your workplace culture directly impact the quality of life of your employees. Is your workplace sparking joy… or despair? The health of a workplace and its employees can be impacted by…
Design
Is It Important to Look Good?
Culturally, we’re constantly making decisions about what gets our attention. With so many things vying for our attention, we can be choosy, and we choose what appeals to us. If you have a message you’re trying to communicate, and no one is paying attention, ask yourself whether you’ve delivered it in a way that you would…
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
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
Retain Your Employees
As business owners, we know that when you have a great employee, it’s vital to your business to keep them on your team. It’s costly to the bottom line, as well as the morale of the team, to lose your great staff members. Some studies indicate that it’s as costly as 6-9 months of the staff member’s…
Business Goals
Up-selling with Retriever
Every line of business has some product lines or services they wish their customers knew about. Educating your customer about extended offerings is key to any healthy bottom line. Not only is it 50% easier to sell something new to an existing customer than acquire a new one, they’re likely to spend 31% more when they do try…
Business Goals
Resolve to Track Your Goals
How many years have you resolved to lose weight in the new year? Holiday treats make that a necessity, but there’s something about the calendar reset that gets us all thinking about how we can be better with a fresh start. Changing habits isn’t easy work, and those most successful at reaching their goals dedicate themselves…
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…
Communication
Why Visual Communication Drives Engagement
Digital signage offers numerous benefits to your business: real-time updates, reduced costs for advertising and printing, and reduced staff time. The real power of digital signage, however, is in its ability to communicate visually. Communicating visually is important because it’s the most effective form of communication. “90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual,…
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…
Retail
Digital Signage: Keeping Retailers Vibrant in a Changing Economy
The retail industry is being forced to reimagine its business model as it faces the persistent challenge of serving local customers in worldwide marketplace that includes online competitors. Nationwide, retail stores are closing at an alarming rate three times that of even a year ago. National brands like Payless, The Limited, Sears, and dozens more…
Higher Ed
Getting the Message Across to University Students
Fans of the television show “The Office” remember a hilarious idea that the character Ryan, the entrepreneur, came up with an idea called WUPHF! – a way to send a message to every communication portal a person had. Today, it feels like we need to WUPHF! to get anyone’s attention long enough to get the message across. As recently…
Marketing
Communicating Well: 4 Tips for Creating Substantial Content
We’re all guilty of it: just creating content to for content’s sake. After all, a decade ago businesses didn’t have to manage multiple social media channels, write blogs, create videos and more along with their actual work. So, maybe your social media posts have gotten a little fluffy, or maybe you’ve just been recycling old blog posts as new…