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Improve Employee Retention With These 22 Tips

What’s your company’s turnover rate like these days? In recent years it’s become de rigueur for employees, especially millennials, to move on to (what they perceive as) greener pastures more frequently than their older colleagues. We’ve examined before how to improve employee retention, but a lot has changed in the past couple of years, and it’s high time for an update. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement eBook Download PDF Is loyalty an outdated concept?

The Secrets to Conducting Effective Meetings

“Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.” — Jason Fried Meetings, like e-mails, are an inevitability of the modern workplace. If there’s no escaping them, then how can one make them more effective? That’s the question many leaders lately find themselves grappling with.

4 Tips to Develop Cross Cultural Management Skills

“Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.” — Edgar H. Schein As the world gets more connected and businesses are no longer strictly local, neither will be the workforce. Right now, over 230 Million workers are expatriates, or roughly 3.3% of the world’s population. Companies with global ambitions benefit from an international talent pool, as it allows them to broaden their views and incorporate different ideas to the way the business is run.

A step-by-step guide to implementing a Change Management Process

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Change is never easy for those involved in it. That’s why many resist it, in fact. This is a reality turned all the more problematic when we consider these two things about change: change is necessary and change is inevitable. Yet, despite knowing that, according to McKinsey only 30% of change initiatives succeed.

Collaborative Leadership: 10 Steps On How To Lead By Example

There are some qualities that are expected when it comes to leadership; leaders are decisive, they maintain order, they initiate projects and drive strategy. A leader is supposed to know best, that’s why they are leading. However, the fault in this way of thinking is that, in a team of 10, only one person has the power to act on their ideas. The other nine employees, no matter how brilliant they are, are chiefly responsible for realizing their leader’s vision.

How To Establish An Employee Suggestion Program

A good idea can come from anywhere. If your company’s ideas for new products, new positions, and new ways of working are only conceived in closed-off meeting rooms, there’s a chance that you might be missing out on a million-dollar idea. Asking your employees for their suggestions means that your company can benefit from a diversity of expertise, experiences, and brainpower. Employees might have an unexpected perspective on your company’s product offerings.

Safety First: Establishing and Promoting Your Workplace Health and Safety Culture

No matter where you work–whether it’s a construction site, a kitchen, or an office–safety should be a leading priority for HR and upper management. Safety is as necessary to maintain in a well-functioning office as it is on a work site, and lapses can be just as costly. In the United States, a study by the National Safety Council shows that a worker is injured on the job every seven seconds, totaling nearly five million preventable injuries per year.

84 Motivational Quotes to Inspire Your Team for Greater Work

It’s not always easy to find the get-up-and-go to get up and come into work. Periods of joy and pain can have different effects on us, based on how we process and react to them. Depending on the person, moments of success can do everything from push us forward, driving our next bout of hard work, or lull us into complacency. Conversely, our lowest moments can make us feel hopeless, or they can help us realize that the only way forward is up.

How To Stop Micromanagement In Its Tracks

“Micromanagement is the motivational equivalent of buying on credit. Enjoy a better product now, but pay a hefty price for it later.” – Ron Friedman In Part One of this two-part series, we outlined the signs that you might be working for a micromanager. We also explained how much damage a micromanager can inflict on a workplace. Today, we’ll offer solutions for how you can work productively under a micromanager, and, further below, what you can do if you suspect that you might be a micromanager yourself.