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Strolling is the Fun Part

by Jeff Kortes | Nov 21, 2020 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Leadership

This particular General Manager loves to stroll around the facility to stay in touch with people, chat with them, and see how people are doing. It was apparent there was no particular pattern to his route. If he saw something of interest, he would swing over and...

Withering On the Vine

by Jeff Kortes | Nov 14, 2020 | Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

Many remote employees reach out to me all the time because of my articles on LinkedIn. These are often “regular” employees and not leaders in their organizations. What’s scary is that they are withering on the vine as they sit in their remote offices grinding away...

What to do with Pay?

by Jeff Kortes | Nov 11, 2020 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Goal Setting, Job Satisfaction, Motivation

This was a great article because it brings up the issue of paying remote workers. This is a new frontier for many organizations that never in the past had remote workers. Neil Lappley brings up issues about what is the relevant market for determining pay, how to...

You’re a Cheerleader

by Jeff Kortes | Oct 26, 2020 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This was an incredible group of executives who really get it. They understood that culture drives results and it was evident by some of the things that they were doing to help their employees deal with the issues of working with the Covid-19 virus that is impacting...

I Have Limited Resources

by Jeff Kortes | Oct 9, 2020 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

One question I received was, “If you had limited resources (both monetary and personnel) what two areas of employee retention would you recommend a company focus on?” For me…that one was an easy one to answer. The answer is Give Your Employees C.R.A.P.® (Caring,...