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5 Surprising Statistics About Disengaged Employees
You’d be hard-pressed to find an employer in disagreement with what is now common wisdom: employee engagement is essential to organizational success. Whether it’s customer service, profitability, or employee retention, the amount of data supporting...
Best practice: Assure your employees of survey anonymity
Our clients often want to know the best practices for conducting a successful employee engagement and satisfaction survey project. One critical aspect of a survey’s success respondent anonymity. Protecting people’s identities be difficult – the...
Planning For Growth
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10 Tips for Attracting Top Talent for Your Organization
It’s a fact: Every organization wants the best talent in the market, but not every organization works towards it. Merely wanting to attract the best talent will not produce results; organizations must make themselves attractive...
5 Reasons Why You Should Adopt a No-Layoff Policy
Organizations that value employee engagement has much to gain by adopting a no-layoff policy. This game-changing, people policy assures employees that the organization will not issue pink slips when the economy goes south. A no-layoff...
How Relationship with Supervisor Impacts Employee Engagement
In order to truly understand what makes a company a great place to work, it’s important to explore, evaluate, and improve many different aspects of the employee experience. Our Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey measures eight distinct...
Don’t Be Afraid of Your Employee Survey Feedback
I hear the same objections at every HR conference I attend. “We aren’t ready for a Best Places to Work program yet…” or “I don’t think the boss wants to know how the employees feel...
How to Increase Productivity in the Workplace
Ticktock. There are 8 hours in the typical American workday, and 40 in the full week. Now, suppose you are in the categories of middle or upper management. Then, according to SAP Concur, 14-20 hours of...
[COVID-19] Creating Connection With Your Remote Workforce
There we were, insisting we wouldn’t have to change any time soon, then change found us. For the first time in U.S. history, every state is under a disaster declaration simultaneously. And it’s changed the...
3 Key Strategies to Develop a Team of High Performers
Anyone who’s ever been a member of an excellent team at work will attest to how energizing it can be. Team members provide support and encouragement to give you the drive to reach goals that...
[COVID-19] Promoting Employee Surveys During Uncertain Times
You’re in the midst of collecting employee feedback data about engagement and satisfaction when Curve Ball COVID-19 enters, stage left, and dominates the conversation at work. What should you do? How can you be successful...
Why Feedback is Key to Employee Engagement
We live and work in an age when collecting employee feedback is necessary to create employee engagement. Study after study demonstrates that up to 68% of the American workforce is disengaged. Approximately 50% are unengaged...
Fuel a Culture of Dignity and Respect
Team cohesion and employee satisfaction lead to better productivity and better results. We also know that a more functional team equates to more company dedication, as well as an extended tenure for the happy, engaged, and...
Available Languages for Your Employee Engagement Survey
Did you know that our standard Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey is available in more than 25 different languages? If you’re not capturing your entire employee base, including your non-English speakers, you’re simply not getting...
#WorkTrends: Acing the Metrics: Reading the Data on Engagement
Our own Leila Zayed, VP, joined Meghan Biro of TalentCulture to discuss measuring employee engagement for a hard-hitting episode of the popular #WorkTrends podcast. As TalentCulture posted, “Sometimes a #WorkTrends episode answers a trending question...
5 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement in 2020
Your human capital should be your most valued investment. That’s right; your workers should be the most valued asset in your company. If they are not, you could be missing out on billions of dollars....
Use a Flawless Tool: Our Survey Rationale
While we’re expert in the administration of employee surveys, we’re especially well-known for our Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey. In fact, of the 6,000+ employers we worked with last year, more than 90% of them used...
How to Use Objectives to Improve Employee Engagement
Management by Objectives (MBO) is not a new concept. The practice, which consists of participative goal setting, was developed by Peter Drucker in 1954. While it’s proven to be timelessly effective, in recent years leading...
5 Tips to Help Employers Attract and Retain Engaged Employees
It’s one of the biggest and most important challenges that companies face: attracting the highest caliber candidates and hanging on to them once they are on staff. It seems that some employers just know how...
Five Steps for a Successful Employee Engagement Project
At Best Employee Surveys, we are dedicated to providing you with an easy process to measure and then improve employee engagement at your organization. With 15+ years of experience, we’ve streamlined a complex process to...
Talent Development Strategies: Retention vs. Recruitment
Conventional wisdom notes that it’s more expensive to recruit and onboard new employees than to retain existing high-performing employees. Costs of employee turnover can range from 16% of employees’ salaries at the low end of...
Do You Value Your Values or Are They Just Words on a Wall?
According to recent data from Gallup, only 27% of employees actually believe in their company’s values. This is alarming because values describe an organization’s culture, which is defined as “how we do things here.” Values...
Employee Engagement Trends in 2020
It’s more and more often the case that employers are prioritizing employee engagement. Very few employers need to be convinced that having satisfied and motivated team members is not only beneficial, but critical to the...
5 Reasons to Keep Your Employee Survey Anonymous
We know that employee engagement surveys are powerful tools that allow you to gain actionable insights and a more accurate view of how your workforce views your company. Properly implemented, a survey can help you make...
How to Engage Employees in Times of Change
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times before: the only true constant in life is change. The only reason the adage has become such a platitude is because it’s so true. In fact, it has...
How and Why You Should Measure Employee Engagement
While we all want to hire and retain top performing employees, how do we know the degree to which they are engaged? Engagement can mean the difference between having those superstar employees maintain the status quo and...
What is Employee Engagement?
These days, we’re hard-pressed to find an employer in disagreement with what is now common wisdom: employee engagement is essential to organizational success. Whether it’s customer service, profitability, or employee retention, the canon of data supporting...
The Revolutionary Power of Today’s Workplace
Office culture has drastically changed in the last few decades. For example, it’s more common to see open-space offices because this type of set-up encourages collaboration rather than depressing cubicles which isolated employees from each...
[BEST PRACTICE] How to Communicate Survey Results
You did it! You set your goals, surveyed your employees, completed your reports analysis call, and now you’re ready to share those results with your team.
[BEST PRACTICE] Send a Thank You From the Top
You did it! You set your goals, surveyed your employees, completed your reports analysis call, and now you’re ready to share those results with your team. Our customers often want to know what are the best practices in a...
[Best Places to Work] Why Making the List Shouldn’t Be Your #1 Goal
Why “making the list” should not be your #1 priority. Reasons why you should not take an employee engagement survey for the sole purpose of being “named to the list”. “What is the criteria for...
How Training and Development Impacts Employee Engagement
In order to truly understand what makes a company a great place to work, it’s important to explore, evaluate, and improve many different aspects of the employee experience. Our Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey measures eight distinct...
[Guide] Best Places to Work or an Employee Engagement Project?
While the very same survey tool is used both in the assessment process for Best Places to Work programs and our engagement projects, there are some important differences between the two options. Our employee engagement...
Shake it Up: 7 Ways to Have Fun at Work
Whether it’s nationally-sanctioned Fun at Work Day or an average Tuesday, having a good time at work is one important measure of employee satisfaction. In fact, we take employee fun into account during both our Best Places to...
It’s Time to Focus on Employee Retention
It’s hard to avoid the “war for talent,” these days. Seems no matter where you look, someone is espousing the challenge of finding and keeping great employees. While I might argue that the issue is...
Employee vs. Employer Ethics
Where does the line exist between employer and employee ethics? Is there one? Should there be? Those questions were posed by one of our readers, and consequently we’ve set out to better understand and then share our...
Finding Your Leadership Voice: Shedding old habits
When professionals want to level up in their careers, they often rely on old habits and methods that are not helpful in the quest to advance into a leadership role. This includes how they articulate the...
3 Great Exercises to Build Communication and Cooperation Between Employees
Though you might wish it weren’t the case, you can’t force people to get along. Team building isn’t something you can mandate or impose through rules and frameworks alone. What you need to do instead...
Cultural ROI: Making a Business Case
Cultural return on investment — is there such a thing? When rallying for a monetary investment in corporate culture, the issue most HR teams face: presenting a solid business case that proves not only need...
Benchmark Reporting: Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
Something that’s pretty unique about our organization is the volume of employee feedback data we collect each year from employers across the world. Last year, we measured employee engagement and satisfaction for more than 6,000...
Actionable Reporting: Your Survey Results
You’re considering conducting an Employee Engagement and Satisfaction survey to see how your staff really feels about working for your organization. It’s a competitive job market, and you want to know that you’ve gathered a...
Are You Fostering a Culture of Fear?
“We’re both leaving the company.” Her eyes welled up as she spoke the words to the young woman across the table, who clearly wasn’t expecting this. I hadn’t intended to eavesdrop, but while starting off...
Communication and Employee Engagement in the Multilingual Workplace
Multinational companies face the growing challenge of facilitating efficient and pleasant communication among staff members that may have different mother tongues. While English often serves as a default “bridge” between employees with other native languages,...
How are Tech Employers Different from Other Best Places to Work?
When you think of technology companies and their employees, what comes to mind first? Maybe it’s brightly colored accent walls, beer on tap, or bean bag chairs and walking desks. What the heck is a...
Modern Elders: Leveraging the Advantages of Older Workers
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” -Bernard Baruch.
[Best Practice] How to Coordinate Reports Delivery and Analysis for Multiple Leaders
Many of our customers have complex organizations (i.e. multiple brand units, senior leaders responsible for unique areas, etc.). In these cases, employers often decide to equip each leader with the feedback report and analysis call...
What to Expect from Your Reports Analysis Call
“But what are they going to do with the feedback we give them?” That’s what “Sasha” wanted to know, when she called to ask a few questions about the employee survey she was participating in....
#BESTGIVESBACK with Strategic HR
We recently had the honor of acting as this year’s Do Good Sponsor at the Strategic HR at Mt. Washington Annual Retreat. One of our absolute favorite conferences, this event brings senior-level HR professionals together...
Top 5 Reasons Why Good Employees Quit
We all know that a high turnover rate can be costly and have a negative effect on employee morale as well as customer satisfaction. Plus, training new employees is a real investment of time and money,...
Top Considerations When Hiring an Employee Survey Provider
Most of us understand that the only way to collect actionable data from employees is by working with an outside vendor. But how do you choose the right one for your organization? Read on for the top...
How to Set Goals for Your Employee Survey
You know you want to enjoy the undeniable benefits of employee engagement and satisfaction. You’ve already determined that before you can improve, you have to establish a baseline then measure progress and know you need to...
Why You Have to Hire a Great Employee Survey Provider
You know you want to enjoy the undeniable benefits of employee engagement and satisfaction. You’ve already determined that before you can improve, you have to establish a baseline then measure progress. So where do you...
Give the Gift of Many Gatherings
Ohhh, but I do love a good holiday party. The tinkling sounds of ice against glass mixing with genuine laughter. The warm smells of clove, cinnamon, and homemade dishes wafting through the room and interrupting...
Employee Engagement + Internal Communications
Over the past number of years, I’ve flip-flopped on my job title. Do I work in internal communications or in employee engagement? Most of the time, my answer has simply been “yes.” The reason: in that...
BEST PRACTICE: Survey Wrap-Up From Human Resources
You did it! You set your goals, surveyed your employees, and now you’re looking forward to your reports analysis call. Our customers often want to know what are the best practices in a wildly successful...
Employee Comments: Show Appreciation and Morale Shines!
Employee engagement isn’t all about how much money an employee makes, or the gifts they receive from their employer. For many employees, a kind word, a simple “thank you” or some peer recognition is all that...
Employee Comments: The Manager’s Role in Employee Engagement
What ideas or concepts contribute to employee engagement and motivation? Based on the thousands of employee comments we review every month, it is crystal clear that employee motivation is linked to how employees are treated...
How to Submit a Guest Blog
We love to host guest bloggers! When you have something to share with an audience of employers that are concerned with things like employee engagement, company culture, and the awesomeness of people, this is a...
How Different Leadership Styles Affect Employee Engagement
From time to time, people ask us what the best leadership style is to promote better employee engagement. Unfortunately, there isn’t a cut and dry answer to that question.
Data: Making Tough Conversations Easier
“But what are they going to do with the feedback we give them?” That’s what “Sasha” wanted to know, when she called to ask a few questions about the employee survey she was participating in....
The Impact of Corporate Culture and Communications on Employee Engagement
The way we communicate and behave at work matters. It establishes a culture that perpetuates itself. That culture indicates to employees what matters and what doesn’t.
How to Improve Employee Satisfaction
Improving employee satisfaction is not only good for workplace morale, it can be good for your business overall. Happy employees are passionate about their careers and work hard to help the business grow. These employees...
