Get More Accomplished by Working Fewer Hours

Do you regularly work over 40 hours a week? If you’re like many busy people in today’s information-age workforce, you likely do.  “So much to do, so little time” is the mantra of our workdays. Research tells us that working long hours isn’t good for our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. (Check out this eye-opening…

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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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