Facing Your Fears: 5 Methods to Help You Understand and Conquer Fears at Work
Since Halloween falls in October, it makes sense that National Face Your Fears Day does, too. What better time to explore what scares us than spooky season?
Workplace Wins: 10 Proven Ways to Keep Employees Engaged and Thriving
Employee engagement is critical to productivity, goal achievement, and a thriving corporate culture.
From Summer Slump to Year-End Surge: Re-Engagement Strategies That Drive Results
Q4 is looming and for most of us, the end of the financial year is drawing near. Employee engagement isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a business imperative.
Engagement Doesn’t Announce Its Exit. It Slips Through the Cracks.
The real cost of disengagement isn’t a bad Glassdoor review. It’s lost innovation, eroded trust, and high performers doing just enough to not get noticed.
Why and How to Foster Employee Engagement: 7 Critical Components to a Thriving Workforce
Developing engagement strategies is not simply a feel-good practice; it’s a strategic investment in the future of your organization.
Avoid the Dog Day Doldrums at Your Organization: 5 Summer Strategies for Keeping Employees Engaged
A glance at the calendar will tell you that summer is almost upon us. For some people, that means a slower pace with longer days, kids out of school, and thoughts set toward vacations and weekends spent at the beach or lounging by the pool.
Tacos, Margaritas, and the Perfect Work Team?
What do tacos and margaritas have in common with the perfect work team, you might ask. It’s a fair question.
Future-Proof Your Career: Strategies for Upskilling & Development
Continuous learning and skill enhancement are essential. Job roles are evolving rapidly due to technology and shifts in industry priorities. If you’re not actively developing skills, you risk falling behind.
The Personality-Powered Gift Guide: How to Find a Gift That Truly Connects
How do you select a present that will be meaningful, appreciated, appropriate, and won’t break the bank?
The Connection Between Employee Appreciation and Customer Satisfaction
Employees who are appreciated experience higher levels of emotional well-being on the job, which directly correlates to a positive attitude and better service delivery.
(Remote) Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: 4 Ways to Strengthen Collaboration within your Virtual Teams
I’ve been well acquainted with working remotely for many years. As an analyst (my first position at Omnia), I was able to telecommute a few days a week. (The term “telecommute” tells you just how long ago that was – and how ahead of its time Omnia was in allowing employees to do so.) Years […]
Celebrating Support Staff Everywhere: 5 Strategies for Virtual and In-Office Teams
Let’s discuss the team members who are responsible for managing schedules, coordinating logistics, and delivering the essential services that are fundamental to your company’s success. While their roles are not always directly associated with generating profits or interacting with clients face-to-face, their contributions are irreplaceable. Without them, the company would grind to a halt in […]
How to Unleash Your Employees’ Passion While Strengthening Your Organization
You hire each employee to fulfill a specific role within your organization. And, with rare exceptions, most of your team members want to meet or exceed your expectations. But they also want more. Your employees yearn to feel a deep passion for their work and to be inspired by your company’s mission. They long to […]
Solving the Employee Engagement Puzzle: 6 Ways to Redefine Employee Engagement with Holistic HR Solutions
Only one-third of your employees are engaged, according to Gallup’s employee engagement indicator. Employee engagement has remained a critical trend, and as we begin 2024, organizations are realizing they must prioritize employee experience. Our partner PuzzleHR aims to revolutionize the employee experience. Offering a comprehensive suite of custom HR solutions, from Managed HR to Talent […]
The Polar Bear Plunge: And 5 Other (Less Drastic) Things You Can Try to Start the Year Right
Although the date varies, every winter hundreds of thousands of adventurers around the world choose to hurl themselves en-masse into icy waters in an event called The Polar Bear Plunge. Why? Some do it for the thrill. Some do it to have a great story to tell. Some do it to support a cause: throughout […]
Looking Back Before Moving Forward: A 2023 Retrospective
In a few short days we’ll embark on the adventure of a new year, looking ahead to new aspirations and new possibilities. But before we close the book on 2023, it’s important to reflect on the year gone by—wins, losses, unexpected detours, and hard-earned achievements. Some of the many benefits of taking the time to […]
Five Things Your Employees Will Appreciate More Than a Holiday Party
Who doesn’t like a party? Parties are fun! There’s music, food, laughter, and great conversation. It’s a chance to connect with friends and cut loose a little. Your office holiday party, which typically occurs during work hours, is double the fun. Instead of being paid to work, employees are being paid to not work. How cool is […]
Time-Management Mastery: 5 Techniques for Managing your Time
November in the U.S. marks the end of Daylight Savings Time and (for me at least) celebrating the wresting back of that hour of sleep I so unwillingly gave up in March. Since the average person doesn’t have the option of just changing the clock to manage our days, and since both the clock and […]
5 Tricks to Make Dealing with Difficult Coworkers More of a Treat
Remember when you were a kid and went trick-or-treating on Halloween? Oh, the fond memories of fun-size chocolate bars and mini packs of candies. Sometimes you discovered a house that was giving out full-size candy bars, and you etched that house into your memory to go to every year thereafter. Some people even handed out […]
7 Tips for Avoiding a Zombie Outbreak in Your Company
Halloween is upon us, and with it comes a scary new term! We’ve gotten past the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the (not-so-great) trend of quiet quitting. Cue the scary music and cover your eyes because we’re now facing The Great Gloom. The Great Gloom is a term coined by BambooHR to describe a growing […]
Bridging the Virtual Divide: The Importance of Building a Hybrid Culture and 5 Ways to Get Started
When it comes to hybrid work environments, I’ve seen (and worked in) most all variations. When I first started at Omnia as an analyst, our team was able to earn telecommuting privileges, working from home for up to three days a week. Years later, I became a fully remote employee, working totally from home, while […]
Six Steps for Shaping a Positive Corporate Culture
Whether it has been consciously identified or not, every company has a corporate culture. Maybe it’s characterized by change and is therefore dynamic. Maybe your corporate culture is aggressive and focused on growth. Possibly, it is focused on being cutting edge or branded by providing the best customer service. Or less positively, your corporate culture could […]
Why Am I Like This? The Benefits of Self-Reflection, and 5 Tips for Cultivating It
In the middle of June, I suddenly came to feel like my to-do list was my entire personality. I’d find myself mumbling, “ok, what’s next?” all the time! Even when I was doing something I liked, I considered it something to “get through,” rather than something to experience and enjoy. Family gatherings, vacations, even my […]
Mindful Communication: 4 Tips for Interacting with Introverts
Continuing Omnia’s month of mindfulness, this week’s blog focuses on mindful, thoughtful communication with introverts. Don’t try to adjust your screen; you read that correctly. “But introverts don’t like talking to people, right?”, you may think. Yet communicating with introverts isn’t an oxymoron. And since an estimated one third to one half of the population […]
Celebrating National Pet Month: The 8 Omnia Columns, As Illustrated by My Pets
Did you know May is National Pet Month? I didn’t, but I should have. You’d think one of my pets would have mentioned it! Of course, my cats think every day is national cat month (although they don’t have too much interest in other pets), and my puppy is just happy to be involved in […]
Addressing Conflict to Build Team Unity
One doesn’t often think of conflict and unity in the same breath. Workplace conflict is something most of us dread, especially when our days are stressful enough. But conflict, workplace and otherwise, is inevitable when interacting with other human beings. The good news is that conflict doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. In […]
Is There Trouble in the Air? 8 Things to do When Employee Engagement Declines
You know how it is. Things are good with your team; everything’s clicking, spirits are high, and productivity is higher… until suddenly it isn’t. Suddenly, things feel off. You’re not sure what’s wrong; you just know something is. Employee engagement is a measure of how committed and invested an employee is in their job and […]
Quiet Quitting — A Viral Reaction to an Age-Old Problem or the Real Deal?
Even if you’re not an active TikTok user, it’s likely you’ve heard the term Quiet Quitting. The phenomenon has been the subject of news segments, articles, and a popular speaking topic on the conference circuit. You can even find enough t-shirt options on Etsy to build an entire wardrobe out of quiet quitting wear while […]
3 Tips for Planting the Seeds of Empathy in your Organization
Empathy is an important element in growing and nurturing strong connections, in both our personal and professional lives. When someone takes the time to understand another person’s perspectives or emotions, it can cause a deeper relationship to bloom between the two. In a job setting, empathy can foster productive conversations and help resolve conflicts. A […]
Struggling to Get Along? 5 Strategies to Improve Work Relationships
It’s impossible not to think of great romances in February, the month dedicated to celebrating relationships. Jack and Rose…he made the ultimate sacrifice for true love (even though there was enough room on that enormous door); or Danny and Sandy…hopelessly devoted to one another before, quite literally, flying off in a 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible, […]
The 3 Barriers to Listening and 5 Tips for Becoming an Effective Listener.
I know you can hear me, but are you listening? People get my name wrong a lot. I’ve often remarked to friends that it’s like being part of a social experiment every day of my life. Admittedly, Keather is a unique name. I’ve never met another Keather, and I’ve never met anyone who has. I […]
Want to Know What’s New in Employee Engagement and Motivation? 5 Trends You Need to Pay Attention to in 2023
Workplace trends and buzzwords may have you thinking that 2023 will be all about the word quiet. I mean really – how much more can we take? Everywhere we look there are LinkedIn posts, Tik Tok videos and articles about quiet quitting, quiet firing and quiet hiring. In a world where employee engagement is at […]
Ready to Wrap Up Your 2022 Goals? Don’t Forget to Celebrate Your Successes
If you’re anything like me, the goals you set at the beginning of 2022 are the furthest thing from your mind at this point. For me, a new puppy, last-minute shopping, and the prospect of sixteen house guests has pushed any thoughts of my resolutions and goals way into the back of my consciousness. But […]
Thanksgiving – 5 Ways to Show Gratitude to Your Employees
Due to some miraculous time warp, the holidays are suddenly here. Wasn’t it just Labor Day? This week, the US will be celebrating Thanksgiving, and (when we’re not rushing around shopping and cooking or looking for a place to lie down after the meal) many of us will be reflecting on what we’re most thankful […]
Your Employees Don’t Want Another Paperweight: 8 Modern Ways to Recognize Your Employees
Business is constantly evolving. Sometimes that evolution is gradual and at other times it is faster than we can wrap our heads around. The pandemic catapulted many businesses into a new era; it created new challenges and new opportunities. Some companies took the opportunity to reduce rent overhead and embrace a new hybrid or even […]
Engagement Increases Retention
One of my favorite work experiences took place during the 2012 Summer Olympics. The company I was working for went all in on the Olympic experience. We were an organization of 75,000 across 110 countries, so this was our opportunity to bring together the whole company. We made our own torches, we played silly games, […]
The Great Reprioritization: 5 Things Your Employees Want
It’s not a secret that your current job market is looking quite a bit different now than it did even just three or four years ago. We watched the labor market get turned upside down in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, and now, it has rebounded and is righting itself in ways not many could […]
The Great Motivation: Are you doing these 6 things to engage your team in 2022?
It’s the year of the “greats” … the great resignation, the great reset, the great reshuffle, the great reprioritization, the great share, the great mental breakdown. I may have made that last one up. Change is constant, and sometimes it happens faster than we anticipate. Now more than ever, it feels hard to keep up. […]
Check Yourself: Evaluating Your Career Mid-Year
Mid-year, the end of the second quarter, school’s out! This is a great time to reflect on your career, check in on your goals, and see how you’re doing. So, how is it going? Feeling stress-free, engaged, and overall satisfied? Excellent! Check in with us next week for another informative article! Oh, or no? Or […]
I Burned Out at 27. Here’s What I Learned.
I’ve always had a strong work ethic. I blame (and thank) my mom for that. On my 15th birthday, she dropped me off at Kroger (a grocery store chain, in case you don’t have them in your neck of the woods) and told me not to call home until I had a job. She had […]
How to Use Personality Type to Avoid Stress Spirals
One of the many cool things about personality assessments is that they are a springboard for any human resource initiative, problem, or interaction. Filling an open position? Assess your top performers to build a job benchmark. Having conflict on a team? Use the Omnia assessment to understand the communication style of the parties involved. Getting […]
Leveraging Personality Type to Build Effective Teams
A coworker of mine, we’ll call her Tonya (because that’s her name) always says, “Teamwork makes the dream work,” a phrase originally coined by John C. Maxwell in his book by the same name. We all expect her to say it any time one member of our team helps out another. Nothing beats that feeling […]
That One Memorable Gift
It’s that big gift. Remember the one, when you were a kid? The one thing that you weren’t expecting, but it made your eyes light up. And you kept playing with it long after the holidays. Maybe for years. It’s the one that pops into your mind when someone asks, “What is the best gift […]
Bringing People Together in a Remote World
Millions of us are still working (and living) at a distance due to COVID-19. We’re heading into another holiday season socially distanced, and it’s having an impact. Even if you’re taking steps to help remote workers prevent burnout, balance working from home with homelife, and avoid Zoom fatigue, it can still be a difficult time […]
How to Earn a Merit Badge in Self-Awareness
If you’re anything like me, you learned a lot about yourself over this past year-plus. Maybe you feel like you’re an expert at self-awareness. We’ve certainly never been given this much time and space for reflection. But we’ve also never (en masse, in recent history) had so much intense and constant change. Maybe we have […]
Camp Omnia
Welcome to Camp Omnia. This month we’re embarking on a learning journey to help improve yourself and your team. You know, just like summer camp ought to be. While there aren’t any ropes courses, trust circles, s’mores, or singing Kumbaya, (though we fully support the team efforts), we have packed this camp with valuable information […]
Refocus on 2021 Goals
There is no failure, only feedback: The only true failure is giving up. This is something I say to my children often. It serves as a reminder that as long as we keep striving toward our goals, we have not failed to achieve them, we are simply still working toward achieving them. It’s just as […]
A Recipe for Recognition: How to Put Your Heart into Employee Motivation
Imagine. It’s Valentine’s Day. Cooking isn’t necessarily your strong suit. But, in the interest of romance, you decide to cook your significant other a beautiful gourmet dinner. You do your research, pull recipes from various sources, and nearly lose your nerve more than once given the amount of steps, potential for error, and mountain of […]
Help Your Employees Stay Accountable to Their Goals
Friday, January 1 Dear journal, this is the year! My resolutions are to jog every morning and cut ALL sugar from my diet. Monday, January 4 Dear journal, my big plan to get up early and go for my inaugural jog, followed by a complete ban on sugar, was better when I was picturing it […]
2020: A Year for the History Books
Each year, as we look forward to new beginnings, it’s essential to make room to reflect. While it’s tempting to run full force into the next big project or next resolution that will make us – to borrow from Daft Punk – harder, better, faster, stronger, we owe it to ourselves and our teams to […]
Boosting Morale After a Tough Year
If you haven’t heard, 2020 has been a tough, crazy, roller-coaster ride of a year. I know, I know, I realize that’s all a big… understatement. Unfortunately, there’s still so much uncertainty surrounding our personal and professional lives. COVID cases in the United States are surging once again, creating anxiety for many. As we end […]
Three Components for Successful Modern Team Building
Businesses are about people working in a collection of teams to deliver on your company’s promise. Your people make up the soul of your company. Team building unifies people, making them an unstoppable force. Companies with robust team building programs perform better and have a brighter future than those that do not. Organizations “with a […]
4 Things You Need for Effective Virtual Team Building
Working remotely certainly has its perks for your team members. Sometimes, doing so is a necessity. But, prolonged (or indefinite) physical separation can cause employees to feel lonely and disconnected from their work. Unfortunately, when their morale drops, so does their productivity. As a leader, it’s your job to make sure that doesn’t happen. It’s […]
5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Virtual Meetings
Please tell me this has happened to you too. You go to Teams with thirty seconds to spare before the meeting starts to discover the meeting was set up in Zoom. Zoom says there’s a meeting already in progress (yes, and I’m supposed to be in it!), and it won’t let you in. Apparently, someone […]
Conflict Resolution for Teams Working Remotely
When you think about conflict, you probably picture two (or more) employees disagreeing face-to-face in a meeting or common space at the office. It’s out in the open and usually very apparent. When you think of conflict resolution, you probably picture those involved sitting with a mediator to discuss challenges, miscommunications, and work toward solutions. […]
How to Use Collaboration Tools to Boost Company Culture When Working Remotely
Working in remote teams has become the “new normal” of business life today. Some companies were already transitioning to work from home or partial remote roles; however, many have been forced to embrace remote work recently. Remotely distributed teams require organizations to leverage their workforce effectively and bring the most talented and knowledgeable people together […]
How to Motivate People Through Employee Assessments
Do you know what motivates your employees to come to work every day? If you don’t have an answer to that question, there’s a good chance that you don’t have the workplace strategies in place to ensure that your workforce remains engaged in their tasks. Without using employee assessments of some kind, it can be […]
Five Surefire Ways to Accurately Assess Your Organizational Culture
Companies that actively manage their cultures tend to be more successful than companies that don’t. In fact, Deloitte’s research has found that organizations that develop and promote a strong sense of purpose among employees have 30 percent higher levels of innovation and 40 percent higher retention rates. They also rank among the top one or […]
6 Tips for Building a Team That Works
Would you like to know how to build a strong team that collaborates more effectively and consistently performs at a high level? Of course, you would! Teams that perform poorly and struggle with accountability are incredibly bad for business. Whether the reason for the poor performance is conflicting personalities, mismatched skillsets, appreciable gaps in knowledge, […]
How to Engage Your Employees When Resources are Tight
As a leader, you want to engage and reward your employees because it ultimately helps the firm’s bottom line and is the right thing to do for your people. But, when the company’s cash flow is down to a trickle, and giving raises is off the table, how do you do it? While paying your […]
3 Reasons Why Employee Performance Issues Occur and What To Do About it
When the phrase ‘performance issue’ gets uttered, it’s usually in the context of official documentation that an employer keeps to protect itself. That’s all well and good. Managers need to show that they followed an appropriate process to address an employee’s inability to fulfill their role. This gives the employee a chance to improve and […]
