You’ve probably got at least a few rituals in your office, or at least, you did, before the pandemic. Maybe you had an employee named Bob who brought doughnuts in for everybody and just left them in the break room, first come, first serve, or maybe you’re ‘Bob,’ and left the doughnuts there for your […]
Category: Employee Engagement
Tips for Celebrating a Remote Office Halloween This Year!
Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in the US, and many companies decide to do something every year to celebrate. Usually, that involves some type of party with themed decorations and as often as not, also includes a costume contest, good food, music and more. This year is understandably different. With the pandemic […]
Leadership During The Covid-19 Era
By this point, most people have reached more or less the same conclusion. In the short run, Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere and it’s certainly not going to go away. Worse, even if the most optimistic vaccine projections are true, the simple truth is that the pandemic is almost certain to have long-lasting effects on how […]
Customer Service Week is coming up: Tips to celebrate your remote customer service employees!
You may or may not be aware but Customer Service Week is fast approaching (October 5th-October 9th). Unfortunately, with things being what they are and so many people still working from home in response to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s celebration of your hard-working customer service professionals stands to be a bit different than it […]
How Giving Plants To Your Employees Can Transform Your Company
Mike Robinson and his wife run a small engineering firm in Canada that employs about twenty people. Mike handles the technical side of the business and his wife handles the people. Several years ago, his wife, Suzanne, came to him with an idea. Why not give every member of the company a plant they could […]
Build Trust and Boost Productivity in Remote Teams
It’s no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way we work. Millions of Americans are working from home right now, with tens of millions more engaging in remote work all over the globe. There’s no end in sight to the pandemic, which means this is the new normal for the foreseeable future. […]
Coronavirus Increases Need To Appreciate Employees Working From Home
A surprisingly large percentage of companies that have some sort of recognition program in place tend to take a minimalist approach. Most often, this takes the form of recognizing an “employee of the month,” and perhaps a separate award for employee of the quarter or the year. In tandem with this, other companies will also […]
Are Your Remote Employees Being Sufficiently Recognized?
Recent events have radically redrawn the map of most workplaces, with the pandemic sending tens of millions of employees home where they try to get as much work done as they can while they simultaneously contend with school closures, the complete absence of daycare facilities and in a growing number of instances, care for sick […]
Helping Your Employees Work More Effectively From Home
If you’re like many managers and small business owners, you’ve probably got a number of employees working remotely, from home right now. That’s been a fairly common practice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s a practice that seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Some employees have taken to the new […]
How Included Do Your Remote Employees Feel?
The question posed by the title of this article is not an idle one. It is, in fact, an essential question and one that’s vitally important. Too often, managers and business owners have an “out of sight, out of mind” philosophy regarding their remote workers. Unfortunately, these days, that kind of thinking can really come […]