Posts Tagged With ‘ Employee Engagement ’

Today is NOT Employee Appreciation Day – making it the PERFECT time to express appreciation to the people around you. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Errrr… I mean… Nobody expects spontaneous appreciation! 😉 Why does this matter? I’m glad you asked! ,Gratitude improves retention. 53% of people say they’ll stay longer if they feel more appreciated by their boss. ,Gratitude enhances productivity. 81% of employees say they’re motivated to work harder when they are appreciated by their boss. ,Gratitude is crucial for belonging. When people feel... Continue Reading

(Part 2 of a 5-part Series) Most people do not regularly experience gratitude at work, either as recipients or as an active intentional practice of their own. And yet we know that just generally, when we feel appreciated, we feel and do better. What would happen if we purposefully made gratitude a regular part of the “ways of working”? This question had been nagging me since I first started down the path of focusing on employee experience, and now I had the great fortune to partner with an organization who had already dabbled in a gratitude challenge for their employees, and they were interested... Continue Reading

(Part 1 of a 5-part Series) At its core, gratitude is an excellent antidote for the isolation which has become such a problem for so many of us. While the COVID-19 pandemic put a painfully bright spotlight on the problems that are caused by isolation, the truth is most of us are more functionally isolated than our predecessors in both our personal and professional lives, and this has been a growing concern for decades. When I talk about gratitude, I’m speaking about a feeling of appreciation to someone or something that has benefitted you. It can be large, small, life-changing… and it can be... Continue Reading

“I didn’t know you were gay. I thought you were in the military!” I’m actually not going to write about my complicated relationship with that comment from a former colleague but suffice it to say it stopped me in my tracks, made my blood run cold, and if I had a “panic meter” on my forehead it for sure would have pegged out at MAXIMUM DANGER DETECTED. Back then I was working for a company deeply steeped in the “Good Ole Boys” approach to life, business, and everything else. Sexual innuendo was normal. Sexual harassment was, too. Gender roles were still seen as “natural”. I... Continue Reading

Whenever “new normal” shows up, can it please include comfortable business attire? For probably at least two hundred years but certainly, for as long as I’ve been an adult, the clothes people have worn to work have not been what we’d call “comfortable”. Look, if to be “professional” you need a girdle (or shapewear of ANY sort, really), a reflexologist (or podiatrist) on speed dial, or a bottle of wine to recover once you kick off your beautiful-and-tortuous shoes, there’s something seriously wrong. There’s a whole industry around adapting to these absurd expectations.... Continue Reading

(Initially published on LinkedIn on 28-May-2019) The writing was on the wall as soon as I joined the Global Nutritional Health team. Even though my background is in business and not one of the numerous aspects of Life Science, I spend a lot of time with nutritionists, chemists, biologists, and other super smart people. It was inevitable, given the company that I keep, that I’d begin to explain organizational excellence/culture projects in terms that my colleagues would relate to, and given what we’re learning about the impact of gut health, the metaphor practically wrote itself! (My... Continue Reading