What Does a Positive Work Environment Really Look Like?
When was the last time you considered what type of work environment you offer your employees? Today, employees want to go home without taking work-related stress with them. Creating a positive work environment not only benefits your employees but can also improve productivity and reduce employee turnover. The question is, what does a positive work […]
5 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover
Whether you are a business owner or business manager, employee turnover can prove to be a major disruption to your productivity. If you experience high employee churn, you waste money in recruiting, onboarding, and training new hires. In fact, high employee turnover could be one of the major contributors to decreasing profit margins. Although employees […]
4 Reasons Why Well-Crafted Job Descriptions are Important
Job descriptions help set expectations for your small business. When they are too detailed, they cause confusion, yet when too vague, roles and responsibilities are unclear. As a result, it takes careful consideration to strike the perfect balance when writing your job descriptions. In today’s blog post, we look at four reasons well-crafted job descriptions […]
What Exactly is a Mental Health Day?
Most of us experience some stress at work. This is normal. However, if the amount of stress increases and is directly related to work, it can lead to burnout. Burnout impacts an employee’s mental health and interferes with both their job performance and personal life. A mental health day is a day you take off […]
What Does it Mean for An Employee When Their Manager Leaves?
As we’ve previously written, a manager has a great influence on the engagement of an employee. An employee’s experience at a company is often measured by their relationship with their manager. When managers leave the company, it can be both a negative and positive situation for employees and small business owners. It creates fear of […]
5 Ways Newsletters Strengthen Your Company’s Brand
Newsletters work…if they’re good. On a daily basis, we delete the emails that appear in our inbox because we either didn’t subscribe, or the content looks boring. When done right, newsletters can be engaging, and the result is strengthening your company’s brand. In today’s blog post, we discuss how newsletters accomplish this. 1. Sharing Industry […]
Is It Time to Update Your Employee Handbook?
Your employee handbook sets the standards to which all managers and employees must adhere. It’s a reflection of company culture and helps new employees acclimate to their new work environment. More importantly, it’s there to help your employees and managers understand company policies, as well as employee and industry standards. However, an employee handbook is […]
What is The Difference Between Employee Orientation and Employee Onboarding?
Small business owners hire new team members based on the skills required to fulfill their roles. How you introduce new hires to their jobs can make or break their ability to succeed. The best way to set up a new employee for success is to adopt an onboarding policy. Consider these statistics from SHRM: 69 […]
5 Ways to Create an Ongoing Learning Culture in Your Company
A learning culture stresses the importance of employee development by actively investing in, well, learning. As a business owner, you can capitalize on employee skills to help increase productivity through improved employee engagement. This in turn helps improve employee retention. Although a learning culture contributes to growth, it takes time to develop. In fact, according […]
The Right Way to Respond to Employee Absenteeism
According to the Center for Disease Control, absenteeism costs employers $225.8 billion each year. This translates into $1,685 per employee. Even having one person away for a day impacts your operations, disrupting workflow or interfering with customer service. Chronic absenteeism continues to disrupt business and requires responses rather than reaction from small business owners. Fortunately, […]