Keep Remote Employees Engaged With These 5 Tips
As more companies move toward distributed workforces, the challenge becomes not only to maintain a positive company culture for your in-house staff, but also to immerse all of your remote workers in your company culture. Due to sheer logistics, that is a more difficult proposition. How do you keep remote employees engaged when they can be any where at any time?
Public Employee Recognition is more important than private. Here’s why.
It’s long been a corporate practice that employee recognition is left for annual reviews or company anniversary programs. These once or twice a year moments are important, but are not going to be what motivates employees to work smarter. An annual increase in compensation and a t-shirt marking someone’s 10th year at a company is not what improves company morale or reaching new goals.
Creative Sales Incentives for Motivation: Our Top 3
While job-related incentives have traditionally been used to boost sales performance in the past, companies are now looking to break the mold with new and ingenious rewards packages such as vacation getaways or the latest in highly coveted gadgets. A new dawn of non-cash incentives is upon us and they’re sexier, more fun, and help employees strike a better work-life balance than previous. Best of all, they’ll keep employees happy and sales at an all time high.
Work life balance: 4 steps to improve
In general, employees working in the United States are particularly bad at achieving a proper work life balance, coming in at 8th to last on the OECD Better Life Index. While this is due to many factors, including manager apprehension and lack of understanding effective policies, there is something employees and managers can do to make a positive change in their work life balance.
Create Healthy Competition – The Science of Sales Motivation #3
So far we’ve gotten the straight dope(amine) on the biology of motivation in part 1 of the series and learned how to put the power of progress to work for us in part 2.This week we turn to something familiar to all of saleskind - competition. Is there anything better for sales team motivation?
The Importance of Employee Retention: How to Keep Your Talent
Employee retention is often a reflection of a company’s health and success; high turnover rates can indicate low employee morale or problems in management, whereas low turnover rates show employees are happy enough to make long term investments to a
Motivate Employees with Motivation Mondays
Getting your team excited and pumped up for the week can be a challenge, but everyone wants to start off on the right foot. Granted, not all of us can be Vince Lombardi, but I found that sometimes I don’t have to be to get the job done.
5 Ways to Keep Your Employees Motivated and Happy
Many companies offer lavish perks to their employees in order to keep them motivated and happy, but things like free food, on site childcare, and office gyms won't necessarily keep staff content. Before you spend most of your budget on expensive things to attract and retain talent, you should know there are more creative ways to make your employees happy.
The 6 Best Ways to Improve Communication at Work
Good communication is important when you’re talking to family, friends, or even strangers. But in the workplace, effective communication plays a pivotal role in maintaining the delicate balance of a company. Choosing what to say at the appropriate time can increase company productivity, employee morale, and encourage a smoother workflow. On the other hand, bad communication in the office can lead to mismanaged projects and unhealthy employee relationships. Here are some of the 6 best ways you can improve communication in your office.
The Power of Progress – Science of Motivation Series #2
What really motivates your sales team? This post examines how the power of showing progress and celebrating small wins improves motivation and sales performance.