Employee Wellness: A Fundamental Strategy For Business
Whether the stress that many Americans face is due to physical fatigue, emotional exhaustion, or cognitive distress, these stressors can affect employee productivity alongside a company’s retention rate.
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Future Leaders
Today, your company’s success is measured by more than its financial statement. A healthy bottom line is simply the baseline upon which other yardsticks are stacked. It’s part of a “people first” philosophy that companies are being encouraged to adopt – not to the exclusion of profitability, but as a precursor to it.
Turn Your Big Idea Into a Reality
So how do you bridge the gap between an idea and a reality? Transforming an idea into something tangible requires one to balance two conflicting mindsets: optimism and pragmatism. While there may not be a handbook or magic formula to achieve what may seem “the impossible,” there are simple considerations and processes that can help you ensure your next big idea can, in fact, turn into a reality.
The Benefits of a Philanthropic Workplace Culture
A company that develops corporate-sponsored programs and creates a strong philanthropic culture in the workplace builds lasting partnerships within the community, boosts employee recruitment, fosters engagement, improves retention, and unifies its workforce under an umbrella of shared values.
The Case for ‘Curiosity’
Curiosity has had its share of bad connotations. Curiosity is an oddity, scorned as nosiness, and even blamed for killing the cat! Nevertheless, it’s a primary driver of human evolution, and many businesses today are openly embracing it. It’s now among the desirable traits sought in corporate leaders, along with standbys like intelligence and trustworthiness.
New Emphasis on Worker Mental and Physical Health
In the lengthening shadow of the pandemic, studies show increasing workplace concerns. Awareness of corporate leadership's responsibility for safeguarding and even bettering mental health has led to improvements in recent years. For decades, consultants had...
Cultivating A Hybrid Workplace
Tips for executives on managing a workforce combining remote and onsite employees. The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic required companies that could, shift to partial or total remote working. Suddenly, a slow, measured evolution borne of the Internet age...
Do CEOs Say We’ve Turned the Corner?
YPO's recent survey of 1,700 business leaders identifies challenges, outlook. As we enter 2022 and approach the third year of this shape-shifting pandemic, chief executives continue to navigate uncharted waters. Nevertheless, some companies are able to convert...
How Technology Can Improve Employee Engagement
Successful executives who hope to remain successful know they must prioritize employee relations. Whether they are new staffers or seasoned managers, employees who don't feel engaged inevitably become disengaged. The latest Gallup report of U.S. Employee Engagement...
Hiring in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World
With no end date in sight for Covid and its variants, smart businesses are adopting strategies and processes in line with the new realities. As 2021 and the second year of Covid-19 wind to a close, new virus variants continue to delay a “Covid-free,...