Most parents know the best way to get their kid’s buy-in on family decisions is to have the kids be a part of the decision making process. One of our partners, The Metiss Group, had an employee who was dreading a family vacation with his two teenagers. Instead of he and his wife just planning the…
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The greatest predictor of profitability for businesses is customer loyalty and the greatest predictor of customer loyalty is employee engagement. Thought leader and author of The Culture Cycle, James Heskett, demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same industry. Today the intangible…
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This year’s employee engagement forecast results are in from Salary.com. According to the popular site, your employees are 23% happier with their job than they were in 2013, but 83% say that they will still actively look for a new position in 2014. The January Job Seekers survey, taken by over 1,200 people, asked how currently employed…
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Employee engagement sounds great, but can it really help companies be more profitable? Over the past few years many employee engagement studies have shown that engaged companies outperform their competition. The Corporate Leadership Council conducted a study that found that companies with a high level of employee engagement grew profits as much as 3X faster…
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The necessity to utilize, understand and engage the contingent workforce is an issue that is becoming more and more pertinent to the success of staffing agencies and organizations. Temporary and contract labor makes up 26% of the American workforce (Aberdeen Group, 2012). Furthermore, according to the U.S Department of Labor, the contingent workforce is among…
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In engineering professions industry wide, a well managed onboarding program can have a measurable impact on employee retention, productivity, employment brand, product/service quality and future hiring success. For these new and highly sought after engineers, a well designed onboarding program addresses the specific information that will help them understand the company and how they fit…
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We talk to our clients a lot about corporate culture and the value that hiring for alignment to the corporate culture can have on an organization. It is proven that by on-boarding individuals that share a similar set of values, beliefs and goals there is greater employee engagement, higher productivity, and longer tenure. While it’s…
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Mentorship programs, if properly implemented and run, can seriously boost employee engagement. Research shows very clearly that providing a mentor or coach who can offer insights into the corporate culture, explain the organizational structure and help the new employee understand certain processes, is a major contributor to increased productivity and lower turnover. So, what makes…
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Today’s world of talent acquisition or “recruiting” seems to have some very confusing measurements around what represents value. The market is trending towards more outsourced solutions: RPOs, MSPs, automated resume parsing and screening, as well as off shoring some, or all of the initial contact with potential candidates. This trend seems to represent a quicker delivery (in…
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Charles Rogel, a Director at DecisionWise, defines employee engagement in terms of “both a feeling (state) and by behaviors (outcomes, results).” “People who feel engaged in their work and life experience a sense of energy and excitement about what they do. They genuinely like their work and look forward to accomplishing the tasks before them….
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