In a recent Forbes article, members of the Forbes Coaches Council shared strategies for improving employee engagement. As most of you know, I’m a fan of the three to five rule, so here are three ideas of the 13 which I think would have the most impact in your business.
Firas Kittanesh gets it. A serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of Amerisleep, an eco-friendly luxury mattress company, he has grown the business to serve hundreds of thousands of customers across the globe with no loans or investors. Yes, you read that right.
Ingvar Kamprad. Not a household name, but a Swedish business legacy nonetheless. The world lost Kamprad - the founder of IKEA - in January at age 91. Kamprad founded IKEA at 17, by selling replicas of his uncle’s kitchen table. The chain now has more than 400 locations, $62...
Heather Huhman, Career and Workplace Expert, recently shared some interesting data in Entrepreneur.com - 47 percent of Americans surveyed think business behavior is headed in the wrong direction.
Job site CareerBuilder found that 60 percent of employees think a 9-to-5 workday is a thing of the past. “Employers are concerned about acquiring and retaining great talent, and one way they can do that is by offering flexibility and making changes to how and when employee report to...
According to Ethan Wolff-Mann, a reporter for Yahoo! Finance, the biggest lesson consumers learned in 2017 is that your data is probably not safe. Company after company disclosed data breach after data breach and in Wolff-Mann’s opinion, there is only one winner of the not-at-all coveted Yahoo Finance “company...
I regularly receive phone calls from senior leaders, who share that they are experiencing horrific turnover issues in their company and need help. However, before I ask my first question, more often than not, they add that the CEO is not on-board: even though the top dog can see...
First Sears, now Subway. The world's largest restaurant chain is in serious trouble as consumers seek healthier, fresher food and as competitors offer better options. Additionally, franchisees are protesting the Corporate-directedpromotions, complaining about product quality, and struggling with oversaturation.
In many areas of the world, cold weather is upon us, driving some animals underground. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, most toads, frogs, snakes, skunks, rodents and bears go torpid, their metabolism slows down and their body temperature drops, so less energy is needed at a time when food becomes...
From the research I’ve conducted, managers in most organizations allow people like this to stay because they don’t want to have a tough conversation with the employee about the areas where the person needs to improve. Or, the manager does not have the skillset to have the conversation and...