Organizations know the best ideas come from employees across levels and organizational hierarchies. The story behind the creation of scotch tape and post-it notes have been passed down from one generation to another as compelling reasons to invest in surfacing and building ideas. Ideas may result from curiosity or sheer laziness, either way they are immensely useful.

Internship programs offer more than a coffee runner or a copy maker. This year, more companies than ever before, will enjoy the benefits of an internship program.

The last five years have seen the employee pulse survey phenomenon gaining healthy traction. More and more organizations are looking at employee pulse survey as one of the effective online survey tools to get a quick insight into the health of the company. So, what is making organizations drawn towards employee pulse surveys?

We often hear about how important your company’s culture is and how it influences your employees’ ability to work and be productive. However, sometimes when we say “culture”, what we are actually referring to is the climate of the organization.

Members of the HR team play a key role in handling labor relations and human capital. The way your HR team is structured will have a big impact on productivity and efficiency in the workplace.

Establishing and maintaining a strong culture and high morale is an important part of any company’s success. A solid culture makes it clear to everyone what your company does and how it does it

Effective feedback is a critical component of a successful performance management program and should be used hand in hand with setting performance goals. If effective feedback is given to employees on their progress towards their goals, employee performance will improve.

For most companies, their employees are your most important assets. Employee performance, commitment, and loyalty impact the entire organization and play a significant role in business’ profitability and success. Attracting and retaining high-quality employees is a must for every organization.

In a collaborative environment, everyone freely communicates and works together. Those who are part of the team easily feels like they are contributing to something much more significant than what they can individually achieve at work. Better collaboration leads to bigger accomplishments, improved morale, and increased productivity.

We all know the value of the Golden Rule. Nobody has to convince any of us that kindness can change the world. I’ve just been thinking a lot lately about how it might change our performance at work. Would kindness at work make us better at our jobs?

The biggest key to continued success in business (and in life) is to never gain a sense of complacency. To be the best, a company needs a driving urge to excel and strive for more. Another way to phrase this is the importance of innovation.

Reducing employee turnover needs to be at the center of your human resources strategy. Not only do high attrition rates lead to lower employee morale—no one likes working at a company that feels like a revolving door—but the cost of recruiting new employees is so high that doing so constantly can quickly run you out of business.

Think about the last time you had a truly amazing customer service experience. Was it in response to something going wrong? Was it an individual going above and beyond? Was the company involved or embody great service? Whatever the context, it was memorable—and probably helped to ensure your loyalty as a customer

These days, everyone’s working lives are busier and more intense than ever, due largely to the increase in mobile communication devices which keep us checking our emails and thinking about work 24/7. As a result, workplace stress is a bigger issue than ever. In North America, 35 percent of workers report losing an hour or more per day in productivity due to stress. This means it’s not only employees who are being affected; businesses are getting less out of their teams, too.

There are plenty of ways to have invested employees, but today we’re going to talk about just one. We try so hard to help the people in our companies to embrace the mission; to buy-in to the vision; to care about the results. Why can’t they see it? What do I have to do to get them excited about this?

Workplace Happiness comes down to people and culture, meaning who are the people whom we are hiring for our organizations and what kind of experience are we creating for them so that they would be engaged and motivated to contribute? Organizations must carefully think about what kind of workplace culture to create.

We are hearing a lot about company values lately. There are a variety of reasons, but ultimately, it's about the company taking control of their values. Company values have always been there, but if you are not paying attention to them, you might find the values you have are not the values you want.

The millennial woman is making significant strides in today’s world! In the present age, one of the significant changes that have taken place is the roles of women evolving from being merely homemakers into people with corporate success stories. Women are now exceptional CEOs in their businesses as well as their lives, beating the odds that were once against their success in male-dominated fields. Such women are referred to as millennial women.

It has been ten years since we started Complete Roofing. We stepped into an industry riddled with unprofessionalism and highly underserved customers. These circumstances provided us a massive opportunity for growth and innovation. To capitalize on this opportunity, we would have to find and keep good people. There was one problem; very few aspire to work for a roofing company. This problem brought several questions to mind. How would we attract good people? How could we get them excited about this industry, especially considering its reputation? More importantly, how would we inspire their growth?

Creativity and productivity go hand and hand. Without an appropriate balance of the two, you might find that your workplace happenings come to an impasse. Part of advancing creativity and productivity comes from conversation, but an equally important part is the environment.

A while ago, I talked about the importance of transparency when it comes to diversity initiatives and focusing disproportionately on communication. Easier said than done, I know. After spending an entire lifetime avoiding difficult conversations around differences, it is only natural that discussions around diversity make us uncomfortable.

The unfortunate fact is that diversity initiatives are a black box to most employees. Every employee knows that diversity is a key focus area and almost nobody knows what his or her organization is doing about it. This is why there exists a need for continuous, open, and honest conversation on how an organization is approaching diversity.

If it seems you’re meeting more bilingual speakers in the workplace lately, you’re right! Employers know the value of having people with multilingual skills on staff and have changed the way companies hire new individuals. A 2017 report from New American Economy (NAE) evaluated data from more than 40,000 online job boards and found a steadily increasing demand for workers who speak more than one language.

Millennials are entering the workforce by the thousands every day. By 2020, Millennials will make up over 50% of the workforce, and by 2025 that figure rises to 75%. As workplace demographics shift, workplace practices have to shift as well. It’s important to be prepared and start the process of transformation sooner rather than later. Let’s explore some of the ways you can make your workplace more Millennial-friendly.

It’s tough to labor long and hard for an employer, or even a boss, who doesn’t respect you or your work. Maybe your work isn’t matching your bosses expectations, but unless your boss can respectfully articulate what it is about your work that is disappointing him or her, it’s impossible to improve or even please them.