How to Build an Effective Employee Survey

In a previous article, “Are Your Employees Really Happy?“, we sang the praises of employee satisfaction surveys.  It busted a few myths about them and discussed why surveys are an essential business tool. Since the article ran, I’ve been asked, “What questions should a survey include?” This article will give you some things to consider…

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Are Your Employees Really Happy?

Happy employees having fun at work

Since technology and social networking is available to almost everyone, the chance of dissatisfied employees leaving to find a new job is extremely high. Even more frightening for supervisors is when a dissatisfied employee decides to “quit and stay,” meaning they mentally or emotionally check out of their job but don’t physically leave. So how…

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How to Find an Extra Hour in 3 Easy Steps

Springtime officially arrives this week. The promise of sunshine and warmer temperatures makes most of us smile wide enough to crack the dry skin on our cheeks that accumulated during the chilly winter months. As a rite of passage into the next season, most of us in the United States just went through a productivity…

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How to Make It to the Next Vacation

How to Make It to the Next Vacation Taking time away from the demands and stress of work and life, in general, is essential to our well-being. There are incredible benefits to taking vacations. However, we now know from research what we already knew from life experience; the positive effects of vacations only last about…

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