Category: Talent Retention

The Crucial Role of Onboarding in Employee Engagement

The first few weeks and months of an employee’s experience in a new job are often considered to be the most important. It is during this formative period when the corporate culture is ingrained, the employee learns his or her duties, and initial training takes place. Not to be confused with orientation, a full onboarding […]






Why Every Weekend Should Be A 3 Day Weekend, According To Science

Guest blog by Tiffany McAdams at InvestmentZen.com. Employee engagement carries a lot of weight in the corporate world. It’s a vital piece of the productivity puzzle with plenty of theories on how it’s best achieved. Many theories have validity, and can combine a blend of a variety of techniques to generate the best outcome for the company and […]






Why Should HR Directors Get Behind Employee Engagement Technology?

Much has been said before about the value of employee engagement. An engaged workforce is more productive, positive, and proactively supporting corporate objectives. This is the ideal type of corporate environment that most human resource directors dream of, which is why they often turn to employee engagement software to monitor progress. Through a series of […]






Don’t Forget Manager Engagement – They Are Employees Too!

Walking around your business, it’s easy to think that you’ve done everything you can to provide a positive corporate culture and plenty of career opportunities. Yet, just under the surface there is an unseen, smouldering volcano that could erupt at any time. It’s called your management team. In the effort to boost employee engagement, often […]






Why Should CEOs Embrace Employee Engagement?

As the leader of a successful company, it is understandable that profitability and competitiveness are the focus and driving forces behind everyday activities. Sadly, for many busy CEO’s, employee engagement is low on their priority list and something “HR looks after” anyway. However, in today’s business world, where skilled talent has the upper hand, CEO’s […]






The Trials and Tribulations of Reorganisation

Even though there are many excellent reasons for putting a company through the stress of a reorganisation process, it’s never an easy thing to accomplish. Yet occasional reorganisations are essential, whether to restructure the business to reflect changing markets and innovation, or simply to ensure that the company retains an appropriate management hierarchy for its […]






Your Employees Are Disconnected! How To Plug Them Back Into The Organization

Employers are in real trouble if they think employee engagement and wellness don’t have a connection. It’s a fact that employees report being happier and more productive when they work for organizations that have positive corporate cultures that foster well being. With the rise in Millennials in the workforce, a generation that places fun and […]






Transparency in the Workplace – It’s Time to be Open and Honest

In most organizations, there is an unspoken understanding that employees will provide quality work in exchange for decent compensation and treatment from employers. Employees expect stable work to generate an income, and employers expect employees to use their skills to generate ideas and revenues for the company. It’s pretty simple – or, is it always […]






What Is “People Analytics” and How Does it Apply To Your Business?

Ever imagined having a way to get inside the minds and behaviors of your employees using real-time data? For the first time in human resource history, business leaders have direct access to people analytics, which is a means to guide decision-making using detailed human-generated data. There’s no more guesswork involved with managing people, because the […]






Measuring the Organizational ROI of Talent Retention – How Engagement Factors In

For as long as human resources has existed, the ability to retain talent in order to get some type of return on investment has been a major focus of most organizations. But, this is often an objective goal that can mean different things to different types of companies. Why do we place so much emphasis […]