Employee Experience vs. Engagement: What’s the Difference?
What is the employee experience?
Due to a tightening labor market and a competitive global economy, highly talented individuals have a lot of freedom in where they choose to work.

Pay isn’t the sole criteria that attracts and retains the best people.

Employees want jobs that fit their lifestyle, give them opportunities to grow, and connect them to greater meaning and purpose.
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Stop Being So Cold! How Being Considered A Warm Person Can Boost Your Career
What effect do warmth and competence have on your career? Historically, being considered a warm person hasn’t been an attribute that senior leaders strove to develop. More emphasis was placed on being competent. Books and articles published in past decades that have described effective management have emphasized the importance of business acumen, technical knowledge, being results driven, taking initiative, and strategic thinking. However, competence alone is career limiting.

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You Conducted an Employee Survey. Now What?
One recommendation internal communicators hear often is to conduct employee surveys to learn their communication preferences. And it absolutely is an effective way to learn more about what employees want to hear and how they want to receive those communications.

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How Meditation Can Boost Your Career

These days, American employees are more stressed out than ever. They’re underusing vacation days and overworking themselves, to the point where America has become the most overworked developed country in the world. In fact, 85% of men and 66% of women report working more than 40 hours a week. This is all despite the fact that productivity has risen 400% since the 1950s, meaning it should take Americans a quarter of the time to accomplish the same tasks. Yet there they are, shooting off emails at all hours of the day, working hard and gaining stress.

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Why businesses need to learn the art of retaining talent

What is employee engagement? Is it merely some team activities conducted a couple of times a year? Or an annual bonus? Is it a generic motivational speech delivered annually by the senior leadership? Or is it the process of rolling out extensive surveys, having the data documented by human resources and then just moving on with the day to day functioning of the business?

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