by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Oct 4, 2018
Assessing Employee Engagement Productivity, morale, customer service, and retention levels rise with increasing employee engagement. Far from a trendy buzzword, engagement is a crucial business strategy that saves money and generates revenue throughout your business....
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Oct 4, 2018
Employee Recruitment and Retention Three out of four employees are either actively looking for a new job or open to moving if they’re approached—yes even your employees! This means that you cannot focus all of your efforts on finding new employees. You must also put...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Don’t Trust Your Gut—Assess and Be Sure Education and experience have been replaced as the first things to consider when hiring. Today, the emphasis is on things like how people behave and adapt, what their values are, and what motivates them—things that you can’t...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Post & Pray—Widely Used and Useless Candidates, like customers and employees, need to be engaged. Advertising and hoping the right person responds, or the “post and pray” method, doesn’t work—not if you want to attract the best people. We argue that organizations...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Onboarding—A Vital Piece of the People Puzzle Effective onboarding saves U.S. companies billions of dollars a year through increased productivity and retention, yet more than one-third of companies spend nothing on welcoming their new employees. In this article, we...
