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Winning Workplaces
http://blog.winningworkplaces.org/
Winning Workplaces Blog provides readers with relevant and timely content highlighting the best practices on employee engagement and team building to help small organizations improve their work environments. Why? Because research shows that stronger work cultures are better for people, businesses and society at large.
- Added on: Nov 10th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mark Harbeke
- Listed in: Business Entrepreneurship
- Tags: small business ideas leadership best practices workplace employees
Recent Posts
Nonprofits and Blogs Were Made for Each Other
I enjoyed Lisa Barone's post on Small Business Trends, "How to Rock Social Media As A Non-Profit." It's highly relevant to what I do as a communicator of Winning Workplaces' narrative on the payoff of employee engagement, and helping ...
Minimum Wage Shouldn\'t Even be in Small Business\' Vocabulary
While it's easier said than done financially, at the end of the day it's an ROI no-brainer: One of the best employee retention tips is to pay workers over the minimum wage.This is going to come across as a "duh" statement to many business l...
Who\'s in the Wrong Here: Employee or Company?
Well, this was an unfortunate content pairing I saw on The Huffington Post today: On the left, an article about how a Bank of America employee was terminated after she helped customers who did not qualify for the bank's credit card modification progr...
Passion Just as Important as Practicality for Effective Leadership
I think the following is going to make for a great jumping-off point for some insightful discussion on a topic that's kind of the "chicken or egg" equivalent of the business world...Check out this quote from Roy Vallee, Chairman and CEO of ...
Standout Jobs Founder: Fire Fast
In times like these, it's more important than ever to hire slowly and fire fast. Ben Yoskovitz, the Co-Founder of Standout Jobs, explains the benefits of the latter part of this leadership mantra on his Instigator Blog:Firing people is unpleasa...
To Thine Own CSR Self Be True
The title of this post is the message of Steve May, an organizational communications scholar connected with Penn State. CSR, of course, is the commonly used acronym for "corporate social responsibility."As Newswise reports, based on M...
