Posts in: employee engagement

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

Follow up: Using your story to create a movement

A few weeks ago, I wrote about telling your company’s story, using VibrAlign’s example of delivering a message that conveys value and engages customers and employees. Once you’ve created your company’s story, what can you do with...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

Slow Down and Hit the RESET Button

Usually, I try to avoid making assumptions, but I’m going to go out on a limb and make a couple here. I think it’s safe to assume that for every time you’ve read an advice book, attended a seminar, or made a New Year’s...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

Five Internal Factors Critical To A Company's Growth - Part 5 of 5: Career Training

While mastering performance reviews, team meetings, goal setting, accountability and feeling valued within an organization are absolutely critical to a company’s success and growth, none of this can be accomplished without...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

Five Internal Factors Critical To A Company’s Growth – Part 3 of 5: Goal Setting

Goal setting is helpful for managers and employees. Managers have multiple opportunities to provide employees with feedback during this process, and they are able to identify their employees’ strengths and weaknesses. Employees...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

5 Internal Factors Critical To A Company's Growth - Part 4 of 5: Value within an Organization

Ensuring your employees feel valued is a major key to your company’s success. When employees feel valued, or important, they are much happier. And we all know people perform better when they’re happier. A recent Gallup study...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

5 Growth Factors for Instituting Change

An interview with Doug Beigel, CEO of COLA, a nonprofit organization in Columbia, Maryland that offers training, accreditation, and consultation to medical labs, regarding his pattern for successfully instituting change. Joe:...

May 5, 2016 Emily Plahanski

The True Meaning of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving evokes images of football, family reunions, roasted turkey with stuffing, and pumpkin pie; but all too often the true meaning of Thanksgiving is lost in the shuffle of the festivities. This year, as we think about...

May 5, 2016 Joe Mechlinski

Make 2012 The Year That You Keep Your Promises

The best way to maintain a steady business course under constantly changing conditions is to keep your eye on the big picture. But the stream of dramatic headlines over the last three years has made the big picture a little...

May 5, 2016 eQ Team

Looking For New Employment? Tell Someone!

Isn’t it strange that even with an unemployment rate of nine percent, people still feel uncomfortable saying that they are looking for work? It seems to me that people hesitate sharing this information because they think the only...