This Socialcast infographic indicates that the links between happiness and work productivity are much closer than you might think. Highly engaged employees can improve performance by 20 percent and reduce turnover by 87 percent; companies with a workforce full of engaged employees reported a 19.2 percent increase in operating...
These must-reads on team-building in 2012 will help you supercharge your workgroups after the holiday break. You won't find icebreakers or workshop activities here -- just solid strategies to isolate and incentivize desired behavior for maximum efficiency and productivity. * How to break the conspiracy of the "team...
This Rypple infographic examines what motivates employees, from incentives to company culture and managerial techniques. I've written about employee disengagement before, but this infographic puts a price on an unmotivated workforce: $300 billion in lost productivity. Before focusing on productivity in your workgroup, it's essential to...
Ineffective leadership costs the average business the equivalent of 7 percent of its annual sales, according to recent figures from the Ken Blanchard Companies. For a startup with $1 million in sales, that's $70,000 lost, all due to poor management. Ineffective leaders make it hard for organizations...
A whopping 71 percent of U.S. workers are either "actively disengaged" or "not engaged" in their workplaces, a stat that poses a real threat to organizational efficiency. Gallup found that worker engagement has direct ties to productivity, retention, profit, customer service and other performance outcomes,...
