At some point in your career, you’ve probably worked at a place that really struggled to maintain its corporate culture. It may have felt that with each new hire, the company’s culture drifted farther from what it had once been until it was almost unrecognizable. If you now own your own company, you’re probably keenly […]
Category: Employee Engagement
The Role of Employee Recognition in Remote Work Settings
It would be almost impossible to understate the impact that the Pandemic of 2020 had on the workplace, globally. While it’s certainly true that remote working was steadily gaining in popularity, the pandemic hurried things along. Almost overnight, tens of millions more people began working remotely and companies had to struggle to come up with […]
Gen Z Employees Are the Most Difficult to Manage, But…
Based on the title of this piece, you might expect this to be a fairly negative article, putting down the youngest generation of employees. It isn’t, but it will take a couple of paragraphs for that to become apparent. Bear with us! First, let’s start with the claim and yes, it’s hard to spin the […]
Coffee Badging – The New Trend that Employers are Frowning upon
If you’re not familiar with the term we used in the title of this piece, let’s define that before we go any further. Coffee Badging is one of a slew of new work-related terms to hit the public’s consciousness since we put the pandemic behind us and some companies have begun mandating that their employees […]
Why Everyone is Desperate to Land a Job at Apple
Of all the giant, multi-national companies in the world, there are only a handful that have a genuine air of mystique about them. These are companies that people fall all over themselves to get jobs at, and sometimes, will apply to literally every open position they’re even remotely qualified for in order to get a […]
Hybrid Work Culture – The Final Compromise?
To say that the Great Pandemic of 2020 was a transformative event would be an understatement. It changed just about everything, including huge alterations to the landscape of the world of work. Virtually overnight, tens of millions of people around the world began working exclusively from home and companies scrambled to facilitate that change and […]
Improve Morale at Your Company By Boosting Employee Confidence
Here’s a disturbing and somewhat disheartening statistic to consider: A recent Gallup survey found that less than half of employees surveyed (49%) felt “very confident” in their ability to reach their desired position in the company they work for. Put another way, most of the people working for you aren’t confident they’ll eventually be promoted […]
Managers Must Be Careful When Offering “Dry” Promotions!
Even if you’re not familiar with the term, you’re undoubtedly familiar with a practice. Given the current makeup of today’s workforce, most of the Dry Promotions being offered are being offered to Gen Z and Millennials, the younger segment of the workforce, and some of the offers are being accepted. What is a Dry Promotion? A […]
Corporate Volunteerism – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Although the Great Pandemic of 2020 has finally released us all from its grip, it has left indelible marks on the landscape of the world of work. The notion of working remotely, once a fringe idea embraced by only a few, has become mainstream. New terms like “The Great Resignation” sprang into existence as workers […]
The Battle Over Remote Work Rages On
Our current trend of Remote Work and the recent Pandemic go hand in hand, with the latter being the direct cause of the former. If there had been no Pandemic, then Remote Work would still be a fringe topic of conversation. The Pandemic, of course, changed all of that. With the global economy virtually shuttered, […]