Deborah Merkin
Recent Posts
Scaling Your Business Successfully
Scaling your business can be challenging. It can affect everyone from the executive management team to the most junior employee.
Growth and scaling can provide instability, lack of faith in leadership and employee turn over. All of these events can have a negatively impact your business. Here are a few tips on how to
scale successfully for your employees and your business to provide stability and success.
Leadership Qualities to Keep Your Business Humming
Military discipline is known to transform people and form the incredible individuals who keep our country safe every day. The military also instills incredible leadership qualities that can help you keep your business on tract and build your team into the picture of efficiency. Here are
three qualities that Amit Kleinberger, CEO of Menchie's Frozen Yogurt, learned in the military that he applies to his business.
3 Keys to Any Safety Incentive Program
Safety incentive programs can be hard to design and even harder to implement. They should be designed to encourage teamwork, discourage non-reporting of incidents and obviously encourage safe behavior. The biggest obstacle employers face in implementing safety incentive programs is to make them a seamlessly integrated part of the employee culture, not a feared element. Here are three suggestions that will enhance any safety incentive program.
Annoying Office Quirks and Productivity
Every office has something annoying or broken in it that has the potential to drive employees crazy and reduce productivity. It seems like small deficiencies in the office environment shouldn't reduce productivity, but you would be surprised at how much the little things about an office environment that can reduce employee motivation and productivity. Office quirks are alright, but office deficiencies can be disruptive. A new survey from
Expert Market detailed the top 10 most annoying office deficiencies, here are our top 3.
Creating a Sense of Employee Purpose
At a large company like PwC it is a constant struggle to establish employee purpose. Employees don't want to feel like a cog in the wheel on the road to nowhere. They want to see their impact and want to have purpose in their job, whether they are in an executive management meeting or filing papers in the mailroom.
So how do employers work to establish purpose at work? Here are a few ideas that came from
PwC's recent summit on social purpose that could have a positive impact on an organization, large or small.
