Employee Surveys: Key To Job Happiness?

There’s a lot of talk about Happy Employees in Human Resources these days…by the very nature of the discipline. Human Resources: humans bringing resources to bear on behalf of companies. Making them profitable, making them grow, making them thrive. All companies want to thrive and many understand that if their people thrive, so will they…but how does this magic happen? Sometimes it just does…there is a synergy created between human beings and their work that becomes passion, even love. We can say then that the person is fully engaged in their job. But that happens...

Employees As Advocates For Their Employe...

At Data Wise Business Solutions we have been writing for years about the fact that happy employees make a tremendous difference in the companies they work for. If they are truly engaged in their work, dedicated, feel value and worth in doing it — know they are making a significant contribution.  They will take the initiative to  make sure their job is done well and that they are contributing to company growth. They become a passionate advocate for their company and it’s products and services. They’ll introduce the benefits to their sphere of influence...

Non-Profit Employee-Volunteer Engagement

I have worked with many non-Profit organization within my community and state.  I have held many leadership positions over the years. When paid jobs get a priority for your volunteers, How do you motivate and engage your volunteers? There isn’t a simple solution, but I have found that if you keep assignments short they seem to be motivated to at least sign up for a shift. If there is a long term committee commitment, I have found that email or some type of a collaborative system works the best.   At their leisure, Volunteers can read and respond to...

Happy Employees Bring Happy Customers

There is nothing more contagious than a mood. It is more contagious than the common cold, spreads easier germs in a Kindergarten. Happiness is infectious and there is no getting around it! Have you every walked into a restaurant or place of business and found the mood so oppressive, so cranky you have wanted to turn on your heel and run out of there?! It happens and sometimes in very well-run establishments. They’ve neglected the happiness quotient and aren’t reinforcing in their employees the three things that drive people: 1) an assurance of success if they...

Building A Stress Free Workplace

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”  ― Dr. Seuss The key to being stress free at work is taking the advice of Author, Poet and Cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel otherwise known as Dr. Seuss. “Psychology Today” would agree, “Scientists find that days filled with a string of stressful events will do it. But so will one chronic source of stress – like an abrasive relative or co-worker. In either case, our body fails to turn down the volume on the stress...

Are Your Employees Happy?

  Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com Are Your Employees Happy? It’s important to know for three reasons: 1. It’s very expensive to lose an employee. Employee turnover in the U.S. is low at the present time, but that will change when the economy improves. And the facts are that the cost of losing an employee costs a company between 25-250 percent of his annual income. 2. Unhappiness takes a bite out of productivity. Whoever you have on staff who is happy is getting the majority of the work...

Key to Motivating Employees

Did you know that recent studies indicate that a full 50% of the workforce is unhappy in their jobs? This does not bode well for retaining these employees as the economy improves — or for their productivity now. There is an answer for companies, even small businesses with less money to invest in their employees, yet more than ever cannot afford the cost of retraining new employees. The cost of losing an employee is very high, on average about $100,000 per employee. This cost is not something any company wants to pay when there is a good chance they can impact...

Star Tribune Article – Happy employees

The Star Tribune had an article about a company that based in St. Cloud MN that surveys their employees for job satisfaction and surveys their clients for customer satisfaction.   Happy Employees equals Happy Customers. An Information Technology Company.   …St. Cloud-based Marco Inc., which sells, installs and manages networked voice, data, video and print solutions, doesn’t hold patents, manufacture anything or offer unique products… The company is owned by the employees.   That can help with employee satisfaction.  …which is 100 percent...

Are Web Based Employee Surveys Honest

This is a common question that we at Data Wise Business Solutions hear from time to time.     A goal of any survey is to get accurate and honest responses.    With out reliable data, it is hard to determine what to implement in your action planning. The answer is Yes. Employees will give honest answers when they know that their identity is protected.    If employees don’t trust the survey process, you will see data distribution is very neutral. Are web based surveys any more anonymous then paper?     The answer is yes. For a web based survey,...