Best Practices

Focus Groups: The Value of Listening

Here’s a question for you: how can you move the needle on employee engagement without first listening to your employees? Here’s the answer: you can’t.

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Pave the way for your people

Few things make me happier than celebrating the achievements of women and seeing people rally around International Women’s Day. This week, I couldn’t get enough of Facebook posts, articles and shout-outs to strong, successful women who forged their own paths and took risks, big and small, to challenge themselves.

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4 Tips for Communicating Benefits Changes to Employees

It can be overwhelming and confusing to switch to a new benefits provider. Read our 4 tips for making the change as smooth as possible for your employees.

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Focusing on Your Employees

Do you really need to hold employee focus groups? The answer is yes.

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Ready, Set, Goal!

“If I set a New Year’s resolution, I always achieve it.” - said no one ever.

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Intranet blues? Keep calm, eat a burger and read on

I’ve been doing some inner listening this month and have a theory about In ‘n Out. (Yes, my mind wanders when I’m in yoga class.

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Here's How To Boost Company Intranet Engagement

Does your intranet suck? Here’s how to make your company intranet a valuable employee tool that increases employee engagement!

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Going with Your Gut

I recently began listening to an audio book recommended by a friend. The book includes advice on how to streamline your priorities, and the author has the typical credentials you’d expect: He holds an advanced degree from a well-known university, he’s consulted for lots of high-profile organizations, and he conducted a study of hundreds of executives to reach the conclusions he’s presenting in the book.

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What if limitations were a good thing?

“There is no art without limitation.” – Oscar Wilde * One of my favorite creative writing professors mentioned this quote last week while we were discussing the idea of control and constraints within writing.

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