Employee engagement is a corporate culture approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success with an enhanced sense of their own well-being. According to David Macleod: “Employee Engagement is about how […]

Holding Staff Accountable for Workplace Behaviors and Conduct Having been in the field of HR for over thirty years, twenty of those as an Consultant specializing in startups, I’ve had the opportunity to observe and analyze over 100 different workplace cultures across a wide spectrum of industries and those experiences continue to enhance my subject […]

Can you fire someone because of a bad attitude or inappropriate behavior?  Yes! Effective Methods for Dealing with Problematic Employee’s… We’ve all had them…  the employee that consistently delivers marginal performance…   engages in gossip and talks negatively about management…  exhibits inappropriate behaviors and lacks respect for co-workers…   and then there’s the one’s with the over-inflated […]

Over two hundred U.S. organizations of varying size from different industries submitted data to ASTD’s Benchmarking Service detailing how they invested in and delivered training to their employees during 2014. Highlights from ASTD’s 2013 Benchmarking Service include the following: Training expenditure per employee in 2013; organizations on average spent $1,208 per employee on training and […]

Jim Bird, the Founder and CEO of Work-Life Balance wrote the following quote in October of 2006. “The demand for work-life balance solutions by employees and managers is expanding at an unprecedented rate.  As a result, work-life balance is an increasingly hot topic in boardrooms and government halls today.  Over the coming decade it will […]

Effective Team Building: Further methods for creating a high performance culture. Team building and team work is key driver to the group’s and organizations success.  Within any team, you’ll find a variety of different people and personalities each with a different task or assignment.  The most effective team cultures thrive where team members recognize and […]