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Tips on Creating Surveys to Measure Employee Satisfaction

Employee evaluation on both the organizational and individual level is often one of the most forgotten about and underutilized tools in the workplace. The sense I get is that it is overlooked because people are afraid of surveys either because they don’t know how to use them properly or they don’t know what to do with the information once they get it. Whatever the reason, surveys and evaluation don’t have to be long, cumbersome and complicated exercises that render meaningless results. Rather, it’s just a matter of obtaining some insight that can guide you through the process as you craft a system that works best for you.

10 Simple People Skills To Successful Management

Getting the best from your people is vital if you are to make the best progress in your business or organisation. Much comes from the way you interact personally and there are just ten key actions to take to build great, fulfilling and productive relationships...

10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business

You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands.

Five Tips For Building A Wildly Successful Team Based Business

Learn about five simple steps entrepreneurs and small business owners can take to increase their business volume and employee satisfaction.

LISTEN UP LEADERS: The Frontline Makes Your Bottom Line

Does your staff treat customers badly even though your advertising claims you are #1 in customer service? Learn why it is critical to retain current customers and what you can do to improve customer service while managing your company reputation on-line and off.

Want to Know the Biggest Source of Stress at Work? Check the Office Next Door

Employee satisfaction is at an all-time low. Less you think it's all about the economy, a survey of 5000 workers revealed that the major sources of dissatisfaction had to do with the job itself and, in particular, the immediate supervisor.

Keeping Your Key Employees Happy

A manager's role is to build successful teams that deliver the business. We aim to seek for higher and higher performances from those we encourage, cajole and develop. How do we keep them all happy?

Ready, Set, Go! Get Strategic on Values

Imagine this...your company spends dollars, time and energy to refine your mission, vision and values in a long needed retreat to reorient the team toward business success. Similar to the evangelist that comes to town to rev everyone up, the passion can often dissipate as the evangelist’s tent is disassembled and goes off to the next town. How can the passion become self-sustaining long after the retreat and into the future? The answer rests in getting and remaining strategic around the values you and your charges spend so much time identifying and marketing.

What Type of Managerial Attitude Do You Have?

Many of us are familiar with the inspirational phrase, "your attitude determines your altitude." In the worlds of human resources and management, this phrase holds much truth. In this issue of Astronology, we take an in-depth look into managerial attitudes, and how they affect the overall health and functioning of an organization.

10 Ways to Increase Sales

In today's tough economic climate with customers spending less money, now is the time to develop strategies to increase your sales. This can be done in a number of ways, dependent on your own business structure, staff, customers and goods or services sold.

Employee Turnover in the IT Industry

Even as companies institute hiring freezes or are downsizing, they would do well to remember that it is more cost effective in the long run to hold on to employees with key skills.

Passion Trumps Engagement...And Annihilates Satisfaction

Employee satisfaction may not be a bad thing, but it could be a huge distraction from giving people what they really need at the core - to make a difference, to do valuable work, to count. And it could be a bad thing if it shrinks people's souls and the organization's performance. With regard to people, passion does indeed trump engagement. And it annihilates satisfaction. And really, everything else.

Harnessing Human Resources for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Paying careful attention to the one thing companies can control - the quality of their people, especially in the leadership pool leads to generating excellent results year after year.

Using Balanced Scorecard

This tells how to use a Balanced Scorecard as a Performance measurement tool

Few Employee Surveys Work

If you are tired of dealing with employee satisfaction surveys because they do not work, you need to read this article. In it you will find 10 tips to improve the effectiveness of any employee satisfaction survey.

Do You Want a Reputation for The Best Place to Work?

With employee engagement and employee motivation at serious lows while organizations prepare to leap forward out of the great recession, the shuffel for who works where is about to begin. This article explores what employers can do now to improve engagement and motivation within the workforce so they can attract and retain the best post recession employees.

A Business Tool That Can Lead to Financial Benefits

There's an overlooked tool that is in any businesses toolbox for growth. This review explains what other leaders think.

Re-Organizational Chart

Most small businesses start with a good idea, an individual with a skill set who turns the idea into a revenue producing business, some investors or personal savings, and patience and perseverance. The founding father or mother wore many hats at the beginning and over time handed these hats to individuals who were hired to help as the business grew. Sometimes growth came so quickly that there was a rush to judgement as to how many and who to hire as well as their areas of responsibility. This was a good problem to have because sales were increasing and the dream of growth was coming true.

Inside Job: The Key to Internal Communications

You've heard it before, "you're only as strong as your weakest link." Sounds cliché, but based on multiple studies and various fields of research, this saying can ring true. Your business - no matter how small or large - is made by its employees. Trust us when we say, a little internal communications goes a long way.

Your CUSTOMER Satisfaction Is Tied To Your EMPLOYEE Satisfaction

WHAT DO YOUR CUSTOMERS REALLY THINK ABOUT YOU? We constantly endeavor to achieve 100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. We invest our time and money developing surveys and devising ways to improve our rate of return on those surveys. We empower the information gathered to correct individual problems and micromanage our way to solutions. In fact, much of the comments we act upon don’t really reflect upon the way our business is actually being conducted. These knee jerk reactions create more problems than they solve. The most important feedback never makes its way to our “gatherers”. Our BEST customers don’t respond to surveys and the truly DISSATISFIED customers will never give us a second chance.

Ideas For Employee Retention

Learn the keys to retaining top employees and keeping them happier and more productive.

Building on Objectives - Part One 'The Framework'

"Building on Objectives" is Part One 'The Framework' in an integrated approach to human resources management. Following these practices will accelerate individual, group, and organizational productivity. Part Two 'Selection'. Part Three 'Involvement'. Part Four 'Development'. Part Five 'Compensation'.

Shared Vision

As a small business leader, one of the most important things you can do is develop a mechanism to include all employees in the vision of your organization. Some of the benefits of a shared company vision include...

Are You Worrying about Retention During the Recession? You'd Better Be!

Is retention an issue for your company? Recently when I've asked this question of folks, their immediate response is a loud "NO" quickly followed by "employees are lucky to have a job right now. We don't have to worry about retaining them. They aren't going anywhere." In a sarcastic tone, I quickly retort with something like, if you were to lose a good employee right now, what would that turnover cost you? After they try to calculate it and get crazy numbers that are so far off base, I'll share the simple rule of thumb of 50 - 150% of the employee's annual salary. Can you afford that expense to hit the bottomline right now just to lose one employee? If that isn't enough to make you think about retention right now, let's talk a little more about the impact of losing even more employees when the economy picks up and the labor market is shor

The Work Yourself Happy System

Businesses who mistakenly believe they no longer have to put in an effort to keep their existing employees happy because they should be grateful just to have a job are businesses who will be spending a lot of money recruiting new staff to replace disgruntled employees. Even in tough times, people have their limits and will always be looking for greener pastures.

What Good Are Exit Interviews

Having an exit interview strategy let’s people within your organization know that individual managers, as well as the company as a whole, really care why someone chooses to leave. In learning to better understand why people leave unexpectedly, organizations receive valuable insights into ways to improve employee satisfaction and prevent unnecessary turnover in the future.

Employee Engagement: How to Keep From Boring Your Employees

Have you ever wondered how your organization can keep its employees from feeling stale? Have you ever felt stale? In this article we explore ways to help keep employees feeling fresh and involved within their organization.

How to Motivate Employess - Without Breaking the Bank

They are age-old management questions: how to motivate employees for higher productivity and how to get them to produce over and beyond established goals without busting the budget. Fortunately, there are several solutions. We must remember that while employees need money to survive, they often are motivated by other elements in the workplace. As humans, we all have different motivators. In my consulting practice, I've found that - besides money - there are eight primary employee needs which, when satisfied, become motivators for higher productivity. When management can determine and then best satisfy its employees' needs, it will create a process that promotes productivity without going over budget. Following are the eight needs with some tips on how to best use them to motivate.

Human Work Makes For Happy Workers

On a recent trip Eileen McDargh discovers what makes the difference in the lives of workers that keeps them happy or makes them miserable!

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