A Creative Guide to the Best Holiday Gifts for Your Employees
Facebook Linkedin Finding holiday gifts for our team can be a challenge. After all, no two employees are the same, and we want to show genuine appreciation for their hard work in a meaningful way. The right gift can strengthen team dynamics, boost morale, and foster a sense of employee empowerment and gratitude in the workplace—but […]
Simple Conversations With Your Coworkers Matter (A Lot)
Facebook Linkedin Imagine you enter the conference room for a meeting about company goals and how to achieve them. An hour later, you leave the meeting feeling like no progress was made and your time was wasted. Unfortunately, many of us leave conversations at work feeling disappointed rather than uplifted and motivated. That’s a problem. Whether […]
Turn All Of Your Prospects Into Paying Customers Using This Unique Tactic (Case Study)
Facebook Linkedin When our small business starts to grow consistently, we finally feel relief and excitement. However, these emotions can be overshadowed by the question of “what’s next?” Securing our success is priceless. There are highly technical ways and time-consuming processes to get new clients and keep business booming, yet one incredibly influential piece of […]
Excel At Work By Using The Four Social Styles
Facebook Linkedin Relating to our peers at work is an ongoing, career-long challenge. To excel, we must nurture our work relationships. Without knowing our coworkers, employees, and managers and how they work (alone and with others), we can’t communicate or work effectively. We can use social styles to help us understand ourselves. Social styles, created by David […]
How To Overcome Meeting Anxiety
Facebook Linkedin Few things compare to the anxiety we feel in the minutes before a meeting begins. The fear of being judged and criticized can be incredibly overwhelming. Why is it that the majority of us struggle with anxious feelings at work? What can we do to make our work less stressful and experience calm […]
How Creating Work-Life Balance for Your Employees Can Be Lucrative (Case Study)
Facebook Linkedin Enough with showing up to work early, working under pressure all day long, staying late, and doing it all again the next day. Something has to change. Restaurant training manager Omari leads a small team that struggles with burnout and poor work culture. He was tasked with finding a long-term solution. Over a decade in […]
Surprising Advantages of Work Retreats for Your Team (and Company)
Facebook Linkedin Company or team retreats are quickly becoming a popular investment for many organizations. Why is that? A team retreat is a trip an entire team or a specific department takes to get out of the office, spend quality time together, progress on important work, collaborate, and build better relationships. The goal is to […]
Improve and Maintain Quality, Boost Customer Service Tenfold (Case Study)
Facebook Linkedin It is, and always will be, true: take care of your customers, and they’ll take care of your success. Starlight Oasis Hotel is owned and managed by Savannah, a highly experienced hospitality expert. Savannah has successfully grown the company over the years, but not without challenges. Her team’s service and her customer base […]
10 Effective Ways To Engage and Motivate Your Employees
Facebook Linkedin Understanding what motivates and engages employees (and the workplace factors that inhibit motivation and engagement) helps leaders and managers help their teams, and in turn, their companies. As discussed in our article on the major role employee engagement plays in our business, keeping employees engaged keeps our companies running smoother, allowing for faster […]
How A Nonprofit Boosted Employee Communication by 17% Within a Quarter (Case Study)
Facebook Linkedin Founded by passionate small business owners, the Alliance of Independent Entrepreneurs (AIE) addresses the unique challenges that independent businesses face – representation and limited resources. Since establishing the nonprofit, the AIE team had been facing communication issues in the workplace that greatly affected productivity and output. Co-owner Elizabeth was determined to find training […]