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Employee Engagement Strategy & High Turnover 

Should organizations have a different strategy to  improve employee engagement strategy when turnover is high?

For some businesses such as cleaning services and fast food restaurants, it’s common to see up to 90% employee turnover within 9 months or sooner.

This is not because there is something wrong with these organizations. Rather, these mostly minimum wage, part-time workers may be in the process of completing their education, or possibly looking for jobs offering better pay, full-time work, or more opportunities for growth.

Consider this strategy to help improve employee engagement levels in organizations with high turnover rates.

Employees Gifts for Christmas

Giving your employees company Christmas gifts sends them an important message that each member of your organization is important, valued and appreciated!

To make the largest impact with your gift, you want to give employees a something they want, and will actually use. The best way to do that, is to give a gift they can choose for themselves!

Click below to see a short video showing how easy it is to give each employee the perfect Christmas gift! One they can select.

Take the guess-work out of your Employee Holiday Gifts. Fits every Budget! 

Being Fully Engaged is the Secret to Happiness

Can it be possible that being fully engaged, that is - being all-in, whatever you're doing, is really the Secret to Happiness?

Life is short, and there is so much for you to accomplish and grow as a person. Finding the key can be very rewarding and bring you much joy.

Let's explore this important life-changing idea.

Incentives vs Recognition - the important difference

Employee Incentives and Employee Recognition are used to achieve certain objectives, but they're not the same.

Unfortunately, these two terms are used interchangeably and could cause you to miss your overall objectives if you don’t appreciate the differences. We all know the employee recognition definition, but what does incentive mean?

Workplace incentives and employee recognition programs are important tools, and when combined you can get tremendous benefits to your organization. Let's define what is (1) an Incentive, (2) what is Recognition, and (3) the combination of both.

Incentives vs Recognition | Difference - Part 2

Continuing on the previous article: Incentive Definition - Part 1, this article summarizes the differences between Employee Incentives and Employee Recognition, and continues with answers to these important questions:

• Who uses Employee Incentive and Recognition Programs?
• What about their Costs?
• Why Use Incentive or Employee Recognition Programs - what's the value?
• What are the most common types of programs?

How to keep your Best Employees with Recognition

In our previous article about how to hire great employees we described what organizations need to do to HIRE the best employees. This article addresses how to KEEP them by developing an employee retention strategy.

Having a comprehensive employee recognition strategy is a key part to hiring and retaining good employees. Below, some strategies will be explained on how to keep good employees.

To get the most from your strategy, recognition must become a common and frequent practice throughout your workplace. Let's start by considering how Employee Recognition can help you retain good employees in your organization.