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Supporting Employee Mental Health in the Workplace
One out of every five employees is likely to be dealing with a mental health issue. According to the National Institute for Mental Health in 2020, 21% of American adults are experiencing some kind of mental illness. A stunning statistic that mental health professionals commonly use to describe its gravity.
Online Meeting Etiquette: Useful Tips for Organizers and Attendees
With so many people working remotely, the number of virtual and hybrid meetings has exploded. While this shift to remote work can be great for productivity, it can also lead to some challenges when it comes to meeting etiquette.
Building Business Relationships in 2022: What It Takes To Succeed
In the business world, it’s not what you know, but who you know. Building strong relationships with other businesses is essential for success in 2022. By networking with like-minded organizations, you can unite to make a positive impact on your community. Not only will this help promote your company and its products or services, but it will also help strengthen ties within the community.
Company Culture: The Importance of a Strong Work Culture
Company culture is one of the most important aspects of any successful organization to have. This culture can influence and be influenced by many things including the type of communication within an organization, how you show appreciation for your employees and the standards you hold them to as well. Read our list of elements that make up a great work culture, as well as why it’s so important for your company’s growth.
The Future Is Flexible: Benefits of Workplace Flexibility
Flexibility in the workplace is more than allowing your employees to take an hour off for a doctor’s appointment. It’s about giving your team a choice of how, when, and where they want to work.
Upskilling Employees: 5 Strong Reasons to Invest in Employee Development
Upskilling focuses on helping existing employees improve their skills, or learn new skills, for their current positions with the company.
6 Ways to Personalize Your Employee Onboarding Experience
With an increase in employee turnover, providing a personalized onboarding experience has become more important than ever. However, many employers still fall short in this category. A Gallup survey reveals that only 12% of employees think their organization does a great job at onboarding new hires.
How to Support Work-Life Balance & Keep Employees Happy
Work-life balance is a concept that supports the efforts of employees to split their time and energy between work and the other essential aspects of their lives. Family, friends, education, spirituality, personal growth, and other private pursuits typically fall into this category.
4 Tips for Maintaining Company Culture in Hybrid Workplaces
The recent shift to hybrid work models has created challenges for many companies. Lack of communication and purpose are causing remote and hybrid workers to lose morale and focus. Furthermore, younger professionals are finding it difficult to build strong connections with coworkers in the virtual space.
Graduates of the Pandemic: What Does Gen Z Want in the Workplace?
Before the spring of 2020, most Gen Z students had their lives planned out – finish college, get an internship, travel, and get a job.
Employee Onboarding: Developing a Successful Process
Consider the experience of starting a job from the perspective of your newly hired employees.
Team Building vs. Team Bonding Explained with Examples
If you’ve ever worked in an office – be it in a virtual or in-person setting – you’ve probably heard your manager talk about “team building” and “team bonding” numerous times.
5 International Fun at Work Day Celebration Ideas
The words work and fun don’t always go hand in hand. Enjoying your work can become tricky when you feel as though you have been doing the same thing day in and day out for years. Since employees spend so much of their time at work, it is important to schedule activities and outings that help break up the monotony of the work week. International Fun at Work Day on April 1st is the perfect day to break away from the everyday office tasks and enjoy time as a team.
10 Ways to Recover Your Team from Remote Work Burnout
When employees suffer from remote work burnout, they often have trouble concentrating, being productive and creative, or are thinking of leaving the company.
Retaining High Potential Employees: Can Team Building Help?
Retaining high-potential employees is no easy feat. As the labor becomes even more competitive, companies are at higher risk of losing valuable talent to competitors offering higher salaries or better benefits. These are important things to consider, but your ability to retain employees often depends on how they fit into the company’s culture.
Take Two Twosday: 12 Steps to Take in 2022
Coming out of a pandemic, we all wish these past two years could have a take two. Twosday, 2/22/2022 is a hopeful numerical palindrome that holds more significance than just your average day. What’s a numerical palindrome? A number you can read the same way forwards and backward. Many people use days like this to hold a special event like a wedding, announcement, or party for an easy, lucky day to remember.
Understanding The Impact of Change Management & Change Leadership on Productivity
While there are many different factors that lead to a lack of productivity in the workplace, poor management is often identified as the leading cause. However, what if poor management is not the cause of lower productivity, but an improper balance of change management and leadership? Having this improper balance within an organization can hinder change, progression, and growth.
Guide to Hiring & Retaining Gen Z: 7 Things They Value Most
With the generation of tomorrow’s workforce here today, companies are turning their focus to hiring Gen Z in the workplace. These up-and-coming employees have innovative ideas and a different opinion on the modern workplace.
Is a Big Raise the Only Solution to the Big Quit?
Debates about the Great Resignation of the Big Quit have only intensified in 2022. American workers are retiring early, discovering new career paths, or choosing to stay home and raise families.
5 Tips for Engaging Distributed Teams
Employing people remotely isn’t a new concept. Long before the pandemic, companies have realized that they don’t need to have a physical presence in a given location to hire local talent. Thanks to modern technologies, we can connect with people from around the world easier than ever before.
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