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 […]
