Competitive DNA: Culture + brand + engagement = Employee experience

It is the people in your organization that makes a difference – they deliver your offerings to your customers by bringing together your resources and processes in a unique way that makes a statement (or not) about what you stand for – your competitive narrative, or your DNA.

Recognition and Engagement April 2015 Advertisers

Disillusioned with Employee Engagement Surveys?: You are not alone!

CEOs and Heralds of HR are increasingly skeptical about employee engagement surveys. If you are reading this article, you are probably in that same camp. How can this be? We all know how important it is to have engaged employees. The research evidence is overwhelming. As executives and managers in organizations, we do not need research to tell us that engaged employees are better performers.

Recognizing Meaningfully: 7 things great recognizers do remarkably well

In highly collaborative organizations, recognition is a great way to build and strengthen high performing teams. The very best recognizers thrive in such environments because they easily identify the many opportunities to engage people during the natural course of the workflow. In other words, they shine a spotlight on both the big and little (but no less important) attitudes, behaviors and events that define excellence.

A Happy and Productive Workforce: The science behind it

Humans have been fascinated by their own behavior for thousands of years. Understanding each other has been critical for survival – both as Neanderthals and in today’s corporate world. A successful employee will not only possess the right skills, but their working style often matches their role requirements. However, an individual’s working behavior type isn’t always apparent on the CV, so how can you gain an additional understanding of whether they’re the right fit for your company?

Corporate Incentives: Striking the right balance

You know the old adage, “You can’t please all of the people all of the time.” While that’s certainly true, a well-designed employee rewards and recognition program can actually please most of your people most of the time, leading to better productivity and performance. Offering the correct incentives — with a balance of what is most valued and what’s affordable — is one key to success.

Gift Cards: 5 reasons gift cards offer value for enterprise applications

Choosing the right rewards in your incentive program can raise many questions. Which ones fits my program or target audience? There are numerous options such as discounts, coupons, cash, checks, merchandise, and gift cards.

Workplace Relationships: The lifeblood of culture and engagement

Many companies struggle and fail with their efforts to implement effective ways to improve their corporate culture and their employee relations. While employee engagement continues to be a hot topic with endless reports, statistics and trinkets of information on how organizations can improve and get more from their staff, how does an organization go about implementing meaningful corporate culture and employee engagement?

ROA - Return on the Arts: How art can transform the workplace?

For nearly a century, many of the world’s largest organizations amassed expansive art collections that included rare and valuable pieces. In good times, the investments grew handsomely—in tough times, those same organizations chose to divest some or all of their collections. Many corporations still have extensive collections including Progressive, JP Morgan Chase, Abbott Laboratories, Baxter, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Bank of America, and Microsoft.

Employee Engagement during the Recession: How engagement has changed

The last few years have been tough for many employees. Many have experienced difficult workplace change as their organizations were rocked by the recession. Most have suffered under years of pay restraint, which is only now starting to ease. Yet remarkably, despite these challenges, as new research by the IPA shows, employee engagement has actually increased in the last few years.