In my junior year of college as an undergraduate, I took a marketing class with a young, female professor. The class focused on aspects of corporate culture, customer relationship management, and most importantly, employee retention. While the class itself was great, how I truly came to know and understand the concept of employee retention, was […]
What’s the key to awesome employees? Keeping them happy and inspired of course! Yet, the issue in doing this is that it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Leaders and bosses struggle to inspire their employees, and to keep them happy, for a number of different reasons. Most commonly, these reasons include getting hung up […]
As a leader, it’s not only your job to consistently remind your team of the overall mission and goals they’re working towards, but also to encourage and motivate them along the way. Often, perfectly good leaders get hung up on the larger goal they’re trying to accomplish, and forget to motivate and encourage their team […]
Let’s be honest, we’ve all dealt with difficult team members at one point or another. People who perhaps refuse to stick to their word and to do their part, show up late all the time, are always complaining and casting unwanted negativity on the rest of the team, or maybe just disrupting team efficiency altogether. […]
As we begin our corporate adventures of the new year, it’s important to remember the importance of encouraging continued motivation and inspiration for our work. Importance for this idea lies in avoiding mid-year burn-out. I realize this may sound like a far-fetched idea considering many of you are most likely still holding on to the […]
So maybe teamwork in your workplace isn’t so bad after all. Yet, you feel it could be a lot stronger. You wonder, is it the people you’ve hired? How you’ve divided these individuals up? Is there something wrong with you?! The answer is most likely, none of the above.
At a very young age, most of us learn that everyone is different. Whether we were told by our parents or picked it up ourselves, we all learned this valuable lesson. Yet, surprisingly, many team leaders forget this when working with their members. In doing this, they end up treating individual members as mere employees grouped into […]
After years of working in corporate America, many people begin to despise their everyday work and forget that there are many simple ways to make workdays more interesting and rewarding. With this, we’ve created a list of 6 simple ways to enjoy your work, daily. While reading these, keep in mind that boosting the overall […]
It’s not uncommon to get so overwhelmed with our seemingly never-ending “to-do” lists that we feel as if we’re lost in our own life. Bogged down in stress, it can be extremely hard to find the motivation and inspiration to finish everything we start. Yet, as we endlessly chase more time and energy, not finishing […]
No matter what kind of company you run, it’s always important to recognize the hard work and efforts of your employees. After all, it’s been proven that appreciated workers make the best employee’s. Therefore, considering it’s the season of giving, what better time to show appreciation for your employees than now?
Feeling like you’d like a little more consistency in your team-building activities? It doesn’t mean you have to do away with the fun holiday parties or yearly cocktail events, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a work-related activity to look forward to on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis? Not to mention that […]
Most people in the corporate world can relate to the struggle of having an anxious and demanding boss. They’re moody, always asking you to do more, and seemingly unappreciative when the work is finally done. At this point, it’s easy to just give up on having any kind of relationship with your boss. We’d rather […]
It is often noted that the corporate world isn’t a place for emotional thinking or reasoning. Moreover, it is often said that emotional reasoning isn’t valid reasoning. Over and over again, people get caught in a whirlwind of rational and analytical corporate thought. Ultimately, these people fail because they address failure warning signs with, once […]
Do you ever feel like you’re wasting time at work? Or not getting the production results you should, given the amount of time you spend working? Truth is, as hard as one may work, struggling with sustained productivity is not uncommon in the workplace. People struggle with productivity for a number of different reasons, all […]
Too often I hear people complain about poor leadership at their jobs. Conversations on angry bosses, arrogant Vice Presidents, major mess-ups due to lack of communication, undefined responsibilities and so on, seem endless when it comes to the corporate world. Employees are constantly leaving their jobs due to messy systems of authority, only to end up […]
Bill Wagner, author of The Entrepreneur Next Door, once noted that “The most successful entrepreneurs know that the greatest knowledge is self-knowledge. They’re not necessarily blessed with a higher intellect or more charisma than others, but they understand how to make the best of their talents and how to manage or compensate for their weaknesses.” This […]
Whether you love your career or not, we’ve all had days where we don’t want to get out of bed. We spend the entire day wondering why we feel so sluggish and why everything seems hazy. No matter how many cups of coffee we consume, we can’t seem to shake this odd feeling. By the […]
If you want to be a great marketer, it’s essential to understand your consumers. The importance of understanding the psychology behind how (and why) people think and act the way they do is something companies often miss when creating their marketing plan. Therefore, if you or your company has struggled in marketing and carrying out […]
