April 2017 - Jill Christensen International - Employee Engagement Expert

25 Apr

How to Ensure Your Company Doesn’t Flounder Like Retail

By Jill Christensen

Bloomberg recently reported that the battered American retail industry has taken a few more lumps as of late, with stores at both ends of the price spectrum preparing to close their doors.
The Payless Inc. shoe chain recently filed for

19 Apr

What Do Workers Want Most Out of Their Job and Company? This.

By Jill Christensen

Thirty-five percent of employees have changed jobs within the past three years and 91 percent of these employees left their company to do so, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace Report. With all of this seemingly unwanted movement,

11 Apr

Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Your Slackers Need to Go

By Jill Christensen

Last month, 94-year-old Loraine Maurer celebrated her 44-year anniversary working at McDonald’s. Since 1973, Maurer has worked at a number of U.S. locations in Evansville, Indiana. During the winter months, fellow McDonald’s coworkers and loyal customers pick her up and

05 Apr

Glassdoor’s Employee Engagement Report is Out – Get the Data Here

By Jill Christensen

Glassdoor is all the rage. If you are not familiar with Glassdoor, it’s a website where employees and former employees anonymously review companies and their management. Companies either love it or hate it, depending on their Glassdoor rating.　Employees love it

04 Apr

What Employees Need Most is a Runway to Soar

By Jill Christensen

I love Big Blue (aka IBM). They hired me between my junior and senior years in college to write for their popular internal magazine, Think, and my father had an amazing 30-year career with the firm. His job enabled our

Month: April 2017