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Leaders Need to Lead – Now is the Time
Business reality is derived from the performance of your sales force, your profit and loss statement, employee morale, and messaging from your company’s leadership. Despite how long it takes to emerge from this perfect storm of economic issues it is my firm belief that it will be the focused and resolute effort of your company leaders who will make the unique difference.

How Downsizing Damages Trust
How you handle downsizing either reinforces corporate congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness, which in turn damages trust. This article offers two suggestions on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so.
Reduction in Force needs to be a “Surgical Strategy”
During tough economic times a reduction in force (RIF) often becomes a necessity for many companies. Let’s face it; payroll expense is probably the biggest expense for the majority of companies in business today. Unfortunately, many leaders have a tendency to panic and make across the board cuts without regard for the long term effects, including employee morale and the overall health of the company and its ability to weather the economic storm.
Standardizing Performance Reviews
Completing performance reviews on a regular basis is essential for maintaining motivation, assessing department capabilities, and managing your staff effectively. Managers who do not complete performance reviews or deal with performance issues reduce employee morale, decrease credibility of management, diminish organizational effectiveness, and contribute to increased costs for resources. Use Demand Metric’s downloadable Performance Review Template to help you standardize your employee performance review process.
"I Love Mondays!" Are You Kidding Me?
During this recession, employee morale is incredibly important. Betsey shares some new statistics & ideas that can help you - without breaking your budget.
Finding the Right Fit: A Leadership Selection Model for the Redesigned Organization
Over the past several years, companies across every industry have sought ways to improve profitability and service while decreasing costs. As labor expenses usually account for the single largest segment of the company's budget, downsizings are one of the first options that senior executives consider when trying to cut costs. By Kenneth R. Cohen, Ph.D.
Promote Work-Life Balance to Retain and Motivate Employees
As a manager, you may cringe when you hear the phrase "Work-Life Balance," which is viewed by many employers as a code phrase for "work less." But is the trend toward employees demanding more balance between their careers and their other obligations and interests entirely negative for employers? Viewed from a positive perspective, Work-Life Balance can be one of your best tools to retain and motivate your employees.
Finding Work-Life Balance in the New Year
At this time of year I often find myself thinking that I didn't spend as much time with my family and friends as I would have liked. It's just so easy to get caught up in the day to day hustle of things that need to be done. You may be feeling the same way: you were so busy with meetings, email, voice mail, and reports that some of the more important things in life got put on the back burner - often with a promise that you would get to it tomorrow, or next week. Well now is your chance, as you're setting your goals for the upcoming year, to bring focus to developing greater balance in your life.

Employee Retention: 7 Tactics to Retain Your Most Valuable Asset
Recent surveys show that senior executives place employee retention as their greatest staffing concern. And so they should. Employers who are able to minimize their employee turnover during this recession period are going to emerge from it stronger and healthier than those companies whose employees have defected. You should be doing everything you can to make sure that you keep your employees happy, engaged, and productive. Your company depends on it, and here's why.

Workplace Communication And Management Communication Benefit From Writing Skills In Internal Newsletters
Newsletters directed at employee well-being, morale, cohesion and even an electronic flea market can be a very effective form of workplace communication and management communication. They can also be a forum for employees to show off their writing skills while they keep their colleagues informed about family news, recipes, social events and the business climate and official matters at work. You could announce business writing training or presentation skills training for employees who want to be more productive and position themselves for advancement.

Are you inspiring excellence?
As an excellence advocate, one of your responsibilities is to inspire excellence in other people – especially those who work with you and for you. Excellence in the workplace leads to higher profits, higher job satisfaction ratings, and higher employee morale. Are you inspiring excellence? If not, then this article will show you how to start spreading the excellence around.
How to stay positive in a negative professional environment
Nothing affects employee morale more insidiously than persistent workplace negativity. It drains the energy of your organisation and diverts critical attention from work and performance. Negativity occurs in the attitude, outlook, and talk of one employee, or in a crescendo of voices responding to a workplace decision or event.
Success Strategies for Tough Times
There’s just no getting around it. Times are tough. Yet there is opportunity for growth in the midst of these economic hard times. While it might go against intuition, success in difficult times calls for holding true to basic tenets of effective behavior. With the proper attitude and approach, you can indeed thrive in the midst of uncertainty. Here's how...
Increasing Your Profit By Looking At Your Data
Every business accumulates massive amounts of data that can tell the business owner where the hidden profit and cash flow is in their business. But sadly, most business owners never take the time to think about or examine what the data is telling them.
Importance of Corporate Wellness Programs
Corporate Wellness Programs have gone from becoming an after thought of "something that we should do" to a necessity for any small, medium or large company. With today's rising medical and insurance costs at an all time high no company can afford not to instill some form of a Wellness Program into their organization. These programs can be extremely low budget (pennies on the dollar) and can be implemented on employees own time.

April Fools Day: Employee Morale and How to Kill it in 5 Easy Steps
For our first article in April, in recognition of April Fool’s Day, we’ve decided to make light of a serious topic. As an August 2008 Training Trends e-newsletter pointed out, there are “countless articles and books that promise to tell employers how to boost employee morale.” Why not take a shortcut from buying and reading all of those books and take a look at the top 5 ways to kill employee morale?

Who’s really to blame when your employees fail to perform?
Human beings are funny. When placed in a position where they are expected to perform in a certain way – like an office – most people will do exactly what is expected and not much more. If expectations are low, they tend to do less. But when expectations are high, those same people will to rise to the occasion. Applied to today’s managers, we see this effect play out time and again in organizations large and small: A manager who expects little of his or her employees also clearly thinks little of them. As a result, employees give little in return. On the other hand, managers who expect a lot of their employees tend to treat their employees better and, in return, get better performance.

What's Next - Selling The Intangibles
Learn 10 mini selling systems you can use to derail your competition. They are easy to learn and even easier to apply. Practical ideas that get you immediate results.
How To Create an Employee Incentive Program
Interview with Allison Grace in the Charlotte Business Journal about incentive programs. By Bea Quirk, March 23, 2007
Four Ways HRO Firms Can Help Boost Employee Morale and Improve Productivity
When the economy is down and sales are flat, it is important to maintain a positive and upbeat work environment, regardless of your financial statement. In recent years, thousands of employers have begun turning to Human Resources Outsourcing firms to help improve employee morale and productivity.
I Said it was the Money; But I Lied
As the economy continues to strain, recruiting and retaining talent will become even more important than ever. This article tackles this urgent topic, explaining many ways to help organizations go about their recruiting and retention methods. If you need any help with this, here is a great way to kick off your program.

I Said it was the Money; But I Lied UPDATED Oct 2007
Same topic as the original, with data and interpretations reflecting the results from 2007.
Combating the Effects of War
Employees with family fighting overseas are the hidden quantity of employees for whom usual morale boosting techniques might not be enough.
Create a "Green" Office
Businesses small and large alike are determined to incorporate sustainability within business operations. This article describes simple measures which will help businesses improve their environmental performance.
Finding Fun In Your Workplace
Fun and workplace - not two words you often find together in the same sentence. Find out why and how you should use them together in your company.
The Memo From HR Says Maybe To Green
The highly respected Society for Human Resource Management has released its 2008 Green Workplace Survey and of the HR professionals polled, 50% said they had a formal or informal eco-strategy but on the other hand, 43% said they didn’t have one and didn’t see implementing one in the next year. Find out about the latest trends in greening the HR department.

Shades of Grey
A paperweight sits on my desk, etched in silver the message: Life isn't always black and white. It serves as a reminder there are few absolutes at work (or in life). Yet, it would be easier if there were; if good ideas from bad, trustworthy people from non-trustworthy, and right paths from the wrong ones could easily be discerned. I've learned in twenty years in management that increasing one's perspective increases the grey, as words like always and never become obsolete for describing most situations and most people.
Organizational Talent You Need To Succeed
No organization can continue to prosper and grow without having the right people in the right jobs. Quoting Jack Welch of GE fame, “Winning is about having the best people on your team. It doesn’t help if you’re surrounded by people who are less talented than you are.” So much of leadership is about accomplishing results through others.
Loyalty Building Strategies for Managers
High turnover is an expensive problem for organizations. This article provides three simple ways managers and supervisors can improve retention on their teams.
WorkLife Balance & Employee Engagement
An engaged employee is likely a more productive employee. An attitude adjustment or a morph of strategy can foster worker loyalty for both small and large businesses. Addressing the concerns of your workers with regard to worklife balance is another way to create better relationships between the rank and file - and top brass. And those changes just might impact your bottom line in the end.
3 Tools to Improve Low Self Esteem
Low self-esteem has such a far reaching effect on one's ability to succeed at anything. So I want to provide some tools to help you or anyone you may know begin to build their self-esteem to new heights.
Decreasing Labor Costs Without Layoffs
At a time when the nation’s economy is softening, and perhaps worse, many entrepreneurs are considering layoffs as a way to cut costs. But eliminating jobs does not always result in immediate cost-savings. There are often severance packages to finance and unemployment benefits to cover. In addition, the morale of the employees left behind always suffers. There are ways to decrease labor costs that can save jobs, however. And, in many instances, these strategies can save money immediately, keep unemployment insurance rates down, improve or at least maintain employee morale and save jobs.
Delegationg...a Key to Your Success
The Art of Delegation… Delegation is a necessary, if often difficult skill. This is a fact I am reminded of almost daily as I work with business owners, managers and entrepreneurs.

Other employee morale Related Articles

Employee Communication is the Secret to Business Success
Business surveys consistently show us that poor workplace communication is a major source of employee dissatisfaction. The repercussions of this include not just low employee morale. Employee productivity suffers, along with a range of other business performance indicators. Are you looking in the right places in fixing your organization’s communication problems?
Decreasing Labor Costs Without Layoffs
At a time when the nation’s economy is softening, and perhaps worse, many entrepreneurs are considering layoffs as a way to cut costs. But eliminating jobs does not always result in immediate cost-savings. There are often severance packages to finance and unemployment benefits to cover. In addition, the morale of the employees left behind always suffers. There are ways to decrease labor costs that can save jobs, however. And, in many instances, these strategies can save money immediately, keep unemployment insurance rates down, improve or at least maintain employee morale and save jobs.
What else does it take to KEEP your employees satisfied
This article is to help managers, supervisors, executives and other hiring managers understand new methodologies on reducing attrition and increasing employee morale.
"I Love Mondays!" Are You Kidding Me?
During this recession, employee morale is incredibly important. Betsey shares some new statistics & ideas that can help you - without breaking your budget.
April Fools Day: Employee Morale and How to Kill it in 5 Easy Steps
For our first article in April, in recognition of April Fool’s Day, we’ve decided to make light of a serious topic. As an August 2008 Training Trends e-newsletter pointed out, there are “countless articles and books that promise to tell employers how to boost employee morale.” Why not take a shortcut from buying and reading all of those books and take a look at the top 5 ways to kill employee morale?

Prospecting Improves Morale & Is The Key to Increasing Sales - Find Out the Success Formula
[Business:Sales] Prospecting needs to be part of the entire sales process not just when a sales persons calendar is filled to the brim with appointments. The reason is when the pipeline of appointments dry up the sales person will feel low and morale will suffer for them and those around them. When morale is low theirs one place to look for the culprit and that is the prospecting pipeline. This will be one of the major clues that will determine why morale is low or high. Find out what the SUCCESS FORMULA IS TO INCREASED SALES & INCREASED MORALE...
How to stay positive in a negative professional environment
Nothing affects employee morale more insidiously than persistent workplace negativity. It drains the energy of your organisation and diverts critical attention from work and performance. Negativity occurs in the attitude, outlook, and talk of one employee, or in a crescendo of voices responding to a workplace decision or event.
HANDLING EMPLOYEE CONFLICT
In this litigious age, many employers are naturally reluctant to interfere with employee conflict. However, since employee quarrels can often entangle and polarize entire groups and lead to low morale, destruction of company culture, and productivity loss --- among other undesired collateral damage --- it is imperative that a leader take control of these types of situations at once.
How to Influence without Positional Authority and Improve Employee Morale Using 3 Simple Strategies
If you want to achieve anything meaningful in your organization... motivate others to higher levels of performance and also impact positively not only the morale of your employees, but also the morale of your peers...

Morale is King (and Queen) of the Workplace
Here are four important ways to keep employee morale at a high point. What you are looking for is that mystical win/win that sounds better on paper than it usually plays in real life. So, pay attention and whether you have one employee or many, these tips are worth their weight in gold.

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