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Workplace Wellness: 10 Tips for A Healthier, Happier Workplace
May 16, 2024
Employee wellness goes beyond just “doing right” by the people who work for you — a study from Oxford found that happy, engaged employees are 13% more productive, and a study from Gallup found that employee happiness can lead to a 41% drop in absenteeism. This means that if you aren’t already thinking about how...
Employee Retention Strategies That Really Work
May 01, 2024
Employee retention isn’t just something HR managers worry about — it’s a business challenge that impacts the entire organization. According to Gallup, employee turnover has cost businesses $1 trillion in losses. In addition to changes due to the pandemic, younger workers are also quitting their jobs more readily than their older counterparts. According to the...
7 Examples of Workplace Wellness Programs Your Employees Will Love
April 02, 2024
One of the signs of a high-quality employer is the quality of the support they offer their employees. In particular, workplace wellness programs play an outsized role in recruiting and retaining top talent. If you’re not sure what kinds of programs you can implement in your business, consider any of the following great examples: 1....
Change Management Best Practices to Help Your Business Thrive
March 20, 2024
Any leader who has tried to implement change at work knows that getting your workplace teams on board can be challenging, to say the least. When it comes to implementing change, there are some “best practices” you can follow to help your business continue to thrive, including: Active and Visible Leadership Having a positive leader...
How to Solve Employee Retention With Emotional Intelligence
March 04, 2024
Finding and hiring the right people for the right roles is essential to the success of any business, but it’s not something that happens with the snap of a finger. Hiring and onboarding a new team member is only the start of the process; HR managers and department heads now have to think about how...
10 Ways to Lead With Change Management
January 17, 2024
Change management is more than just a trend or a phase; it’s an opportunity for us to lead our teams and colleagues into a bright and collaborative future. But how can you lead the push for change? What steps can you take to develop your skills and empower yourself to guide others? That’s what we’ll...
How to LEAD With Resilience (With Examples!)
December 15, 2023
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from failure, setbacks, and crises.Hardiness and resilience is a hallmark of successful leaders, as it allows us to come back from hardship and disappointment more determined and driven than before.Additionally, individuals who exhibit high levels of hardiness and resilience are more likely to adopt leadership styles that motivate, inspire, and support those around them.Many people don’t know that we can build on and develop qualities to develop both...
We Are Resilient
November 16, 2023
As I observe our global community come together during the COVID-19 outbreak, I am taking the opportunity to learn about resilience from those who are leading us through this crisis. Our senior political and health care professionals are setting strategy, deploying it and re-shaping it as reality shifts and new information becomes available. I’m thinking of our quiet leaders, those on the front-line who are stepping forward to care for our collective well-being. Quite frankly, if any of these...
How to Survive (and Thrive!) During Times of Change
October 18, 2023
According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “the only constant in life is change.” While this seems paradoxical, we are now experiencing change, sometimes on an hourly basis. I thought this would be an ideal time to talk about the emotions that change can evoke, and to recognize that we all have different preferences for handling change, but that we can learn to adapt.Emotions of ChangeThe changes to your life over the last few weeks might have evoked strong emotions, including fear, sadness,...
How to Accelerate Your Career With Emotional Intelligence
September 14, 2023
Hayley Hesseln, PhD, CEC and co-founder EI Advantage tells us about helping students shift from academia to the workforce, and her new book full of emotional intelligence exercises to support their transition. Trained as a natural resource economist, she has worked as a university professor since 1996 in the US and Canada, and focuses much...