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Create Happiness in Your Workplace Culture
Some simple steps can help you create happiness in your workplace culture. At a time when retention and hiring may be challenging, you want your business to be as employee []
Employee Recognition Strategies
If you want to hold onto your top talent, then you need to have some employee recognition strategies. You simply cant leave this to chance. Otherwise, you may give too []
Hold a Productivity Holiday at Work
Organizations looking to improve should schedule a productivity holiday at work. This gives everyone a chance to catch up on important tasks that never seem to get done. If youre []
How to Prevent Poor Employee Engagement
Poor employee engagement is a problem that rarely fixes itself. In fact, it usually gets worse and then exponentially worse. And theres a good chance it will never recover. Recently, []
Common Leadership Communication Mistakes
Some common leadership communication mistakes lower productivity and hurt workplace culture. These problems may seem obvious but during busy times, they are easy to overlook. As a result, employees a
Understand Your Competition
In business, its important to understand your competition. They will influence a lot of your decisions. But some are competing against the wrong things. This can result in frustration, as []
Need a Text Message Policy for Work?
If employee productivity and retention are concerns, then you may need a text message policy for work. Texting has become an increasingly popular workplace communication tool. But while its use []
Dance Machine Story
Join Ken Okel for a special performance of his Dance Machine story. In honor of our 650th episode, were tearing up the format and doing something different. Hear a story []
Ten Excuses For Avoiding Change
When you try to introduce a new idea to your business, you may hear ten excuses for avoiding change. These are common concerns designed to torpedo disrupting the status quo. []
The Problem With Business Motivation
While you may want to encourage your employees to do more, you need to understand the problem with business motivation. In todays economic climate, people may consider your rallying cry []