Our Reaction: Meaningful Employee Recognition Can Help You Retain Valued Employees
We recently came across a helpful blog series from Cisco Systems entitled: Cisco Partner Talent Series. The series focuses on helping partners attract, develop, and (most importantly in our opinion), retain talented and dedicated employees. While the audience for the majority of the articles seems to be big business—small, growing companies can certainly pull some...
How to be an Authentic Leader
More often than not – people in power who are tasked with leading a large group of people are often bi-polar in their personality. What we mean is, often the “true” personality of your boss only emerges outside of work. It’s easy to see through fake people, especially fake bosses. It’s as if a cookie-cutter...
Increasing Employee Engagement
Fact: You cannot have engaged customers without having engaged employees. According to Gullup, a prominent authority on employee engagement statistics, 70% of employees in the US are not happy—and therefor disengaged. This impacts customer retention, turnover, and most importantly the company’s bottom line. In fact, their 2013 report include findings such as: “Engaged workers...
Appreciating Employees: Sweat the Small Stuff
We’ve talked a lot on this blog about rewarding hard word, how to incentivize sales, and even how to plan an awards banquet – but we always seem to focus on large-scale gestures of appreciation of your staff. Well, we’re here to tell you that it doesn’t always have to be an engraved plaque or...
Advice for Small Business Owners
We talk a lot about awarding accomplishments or planning for an your next banquet but what about small business owners? An eight-person company is much less likely to cater a large awards dinner, let alone go out of their way to engrave plaques and crystal awards. We’re not saying it never happens—it’s just less likely...