Employee Engagement
The latest posts that were tagged with "Employee Engagement".
Celebrating Our Own
03/24/2011We had a very special “Recognition Wednesday” this week at MTM Recognition. Robert Crowder celebrated his 30th Anniversary at MTM with a crowd of his fellow employees and friends looking on. Wide smiles of joy and admirat...
Celebrate National Employee Appreciation Day
03/04/2011Employee Appreciation Day is a great time to celebrate you company’s greatest asset, the employees! The day first arrived on calendars in 1995 and was created to be a way of capturing the interest of all employers in all indust...
Employee Appreciation Drives Results
02/28/2011According to the Blessing White 2011 Employee Engagement Report: Executives appear to struggle with key leadership behaviors, especially what’s required to create a high-performance culture. Like a child being given a choc...
Love Your Job
02/14/2011The old saying goes “Find something you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Not every single person gets lucky enough to find a job doing something they absolutely love. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t love th...
Milestones are for Celebrating
02/07/2011Economists say we are in the beginning stages of bouncing back from the tough years we’ve endured both in business and personal life. Whether you agree with this or not there is one part of business that remains exceedingly imp...
Recognition has an Excellent Track Record
01/20/2011Recognition has an excellent track record of engaging employees and is especially critical after a long, lean period, when employees have often been overstretched and under-rewarded.A recent Manpower study showed that over...
End of the Year Ideas
12/06/2010It’s hard to believe that December is already here and with it comes much preparation for Christmas gifting, holiday feasts with family and for most companies, the annual holiday party. The holiday party is the one time a year ...
Safety is Job #1
11/05/2010Incorporating recognition into your organization’s safety program is an integral step to ensure the success of that program. Through the reduction of accidents and lost time, the investment made into an effective safety rec...
5 Quick Guidelines for Your Program
08/30/20101. Communicate What is Expected We all have a craving to be appreciated and recognized. Do you recognize the types of behaviors you want repeated? Do you communicate with your employees what it takes to get to those levels of a...
Successful Onboarding
06/16/2010A first impression only happens once. There are no do-overs. Those first seconds, hours, days...even weeks, set the tone for the connection of your new hires to your company. How you assimilate or onboard a new staffer, has a s...
Recognition Has a Proven Track Record
05/11/2010Recognition has a proven track record of engaging employees and is especially critical after a long, lean period, when employees have often been overstretched and under-rewarded.A recent Manpower study showed that over 60 perce...
Build Engagement Through Successful Onboarding
04/28/2010A first impression only happens once. There are no do-overs. Those first seconds, hours, days... even weeks, set the tone for theconnection of your new hires to your company. How you assimilateor onboard a new staffer, has a si...
2009 Emerging Workforce Study
04/22/2010Spherion Staffing has sponsored a longitudinal study spanning more than a decade (1997 – 2009) backed by the well known international polling firm Harris Interactive. The economic meltdown of 2008 has been a game changer ...
You Need Social Media
03/23/2010For many of us social media is brushing our teeth. We don’t think about it - it’s just part of our daily routine. We forget some of you are still trying to convince some of “them” that your organization is risking irrelevance. ...
Parsley's Perspective
03/17/2010Brian is a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst who travels the world helping organizations change the way they do business. Pulling from his experience as Chairman of a national online recruitment site, Brian knows wh...
Employee Engagement through the Eyes of the Boss
03/08/2010No, I’m not talking about The Boss, Bruce Springsteen. I’m referring to the boss of a company or organization, the CEO. I’ve been enamored by the current CBS reality series, Undercover Boss. This series follows high-level...
Ideal Motivational Perk?
02/26/2010Many companies see cash as the ideal motivational perk. This is usually not the case. A recent survey from McKinsey found that three non-cash motivators rise above all other forms of incentive: Praise from managersAttention of...
It all started in Kindergarten
11/12/2009Remember the gold star you first received in kindergarten? How did it make you feel? Did you work for another? Humans seek approval of and for their achievements. As infants we are rewarded for our positive behaviors. Grades dr...
Why are today’s workers so disengaged?
09/23/2009Imagine working for a company where nearly 25% of the employees hate their jobs, over half (55%) of the employees are apathetic and uninterested and do just enough to stay employed. Only the remaining 20% do their job enthusi...
Recognition as Communication
08/28/2009One of the highlights of my trip to SHRM in New Orleans was getting to hear Jack Welch speak. The main theme of his presentation was increasing communication to build trust within your team. He encouraged us to dete...
Motivating in Tough Times
08/17/2009There’s no doubt that times are tough for almost everyone right now. Many businesses are currently challenged with doing more with less…less resources…less inventory….less people. On top of that we go home to be continually bom...
Maximum Loyalty
07/14/2009What is “maximum loyalty” and how do you create it with your customers? Disney consistently ranks at the top of customer satisfaction surveys, so they know a thing or two about creating customer loyalty. I recently had the opp...
Change (Part 1)
06/18/2009From the beginning of our existence, most of what’s around us was created by people for people. Step by step we transitioned from walking to riding to driving to flying to space travel. We progressed from dying of simple infect...
Change (Part 2)
06/18/2009Eric Hoffer said, “In times of change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” I previously wrote about something called “the re...
Sincerity
06/17/2009Absolutely no one sets a goal to be a hypocrite. Some careers do seem destined to have that perception though, and Human Resources would probably rank fairly high on the list. If you saw last year’s movie "The Dark ...
