Employees = Advocates For Their Employer...

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...