Vision and Values

Silos are the enemies of innovation and sound decisions. When you can align employees with the company vision and values, and bring together people with different perspectives, expertise and experiences, the organization benefits in multiple ways. Frits Van Paasschen, President and CEO [...]

Innovation is often considered the domain of engineers. And of course it’s true: a new technological innovation can be the catalyst that allows one company to gain dominance over the competition. Yet innovation can come from anywhere in the company, [...]

Are you using sustainability to help drive employee engagement? Particularly for younger generation employees, corporate sustainability is an important element of the Employee Value Proposition and adds to their sense of having meaningful work. An Ernst & Young study, developed in cooperation with [...]

Employees today, especially the Gen Y group, place a high premium on having meaningful work. If you’re a non-profit, it’s easy to check this box. Ditto if your company manufactures green cleaning products, provides home-health services for children with cancer [...]

Showing appreciation in the workplace is critical to building engagement. A simple “thank you” or “job well done” can often hold the same value to an employee as a monetary reward. Employees want to feel valued and know that their [...]

You’ve probably sent out an online survey and posted Quick-Polls on your intranet. You might have collected employees’ thoughts and opinions via the comment box in the break room. You’ve even hosted town halls and lunch-and-learns to help open the [...]

Internal communications can be a difficult sell. As communicators, we all understand the array of business benefits effective internal communications can yield, but when it comes to C-suite employees, their focus is one thing: the bottom line. This is why [...]

There are a million ways to build employee engagement, but nothing will engage your people more than offering meaningful work. And that doesn’t mean your company has to be saving the world or feeding the hungry. It does mean you [...]

Communicating across multi-generations can prove quite the challenge. Communication methods cannot always be customized to meet the needs of the recipient, but in today’s diverse workforce it is important that communication isn’t lost in translation. With four generations in the [...]

Your mother was right. It’s important to say thank you. Oddly, people often skip that basic courtesy in a business environment. Maybe it’s a result of the attitude that we should be all business at the office. As if being [...]