Author Archives: Good Company

Do You Use Your Employee Intranet?

Each Monday, we ask one multiple-choice question regarding internal culture or employee engagement. On Friday, we’ll post a summary of the responses. This week’s GOOD QUESTION:  How much do you use your employee intranet or portal? A: Daily: I couldn’t [...]

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Good Answer (actually, not so good): 33% Say Management’s Vision Not Communicated To Employees

The responses to this week’s poll were discouraging but not surprising. A third of respondents said their companies’ leadership vision is not communicated. That’s something we unfortunately see frequently in large companies. Top management in large companies believe their vision [...]

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How Do Employees in Your Company Hear About Leadership’s Vision?

Each Monday, we ask one multiple-choice question regarding internal culture or employee engagement. On Friday, we’ll post a summary of the responses. This week’s GOOD QUESTION: How is the leadership vision communicated at your company? A: Blog from top management B: Printed [...]

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Most CEOs Make Themselves Available

The good news in this week’s poll was that most respondents have easy access to their CEO. If they have something to say, 66 percent said they could make an appointment or just bump into the CEO in the hallway. [...]

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How Accessible is Your CEO?

Each Monday, we ask one multiple-choice question regarding internal culture or employee engagement. On Friday, we’ll post a summary of the responses. This week’s GOOD QUESTION: If you wanted to talk to your CEO, you would: A: Go through someone higher than [...]

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How Does Your Company Counteract Employee Stress?

This week’s Good Question was: What does your company do to address employee stress? Well, bad news for massage therapists, because zero respondents to this survey said their company occasionally offers in-office chair massages. We had a guy come into [...]

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What does your company do to help relieve employee stress?

Each Monday, we ask one multiple-choice question regarding internal culture or employee engagement. On Friday, we’ll post a summary of the responses. This week’s GOOD QUESTION: At your company, what sort of things are done to help relieve employee stress? [...]

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Employees Want Recognition from the Boss

The results of this week’s question indicate that people want recognition from the higher-ups. Readers’ votes showed little interest in having their peers recognize them for a job well done. What matters, according to these respondents, is gaining the notice [...]

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What Kind of Recognition Gets the Best Results?

Each Monday, we ask one multiple-choice question regarding internal culture or employee engagement. On Friday, we’ll post a summary of the responses. This week’s GOOD QUESTION:  What kind of recognition gets the best results? A: leadership to employee B: manager [...]

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Innovation is Still A Part of the Conversation

The results of this week’s question indicate that innovation is still a hot topic. Although one-third of our respondents said the word is now passé, two-thirds confirmed that it’s something their top management is still talking about. The interesting thing [...]

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