Meaningful Work

How to Keep Employees Happy and Productive (Without Huge Salaries)

Following up on the theme of last week’s post, we’d like to focus on how employers can keep and engage core talent by keeping employees happy and productive without paying huge salaries. That’s not to say that Gravity Payments' model, which involved CEO Dan Price taking a major pay cut to boost his employee minimum pay to $70,000, didn’t get Gravity Payments workers pretty excited; however, this model is...

How to Build Your Company Culture on Core Values

A company culture is just a mirror of its owner. The clearer an owner is on what they stand for (and what they won’t stand for) the stronger the company culture  they establish will be.  In Forbes online, Stanford MBA graduate Kevon Saber gives us the following questions that he used to build the culture at his online wellness app company: 1. When have you felt most alive? Kevon discovered...

9 Tips for Employee Motivation in Stressful Times

Can’t seem to keep your workers from getting discouraged during a crisis? Try these 9 steps from The Wall Street Journal to optimize employee motivation in stressful times: 1. Be available for support. Make sure to be available for questions your employees might have, be honest and avoid making promises that you can’t keep. 2. Don’t hover over your workers. Have faith that your staff will figure things out on...

3 Top Investments to Improve Employee Engagement

Looking to foster more passion in your employees? Try these three steps by  Victor Lipman (via Forbes Magazine) to improve employee engagement. 1. Link Individual Prosperity to Business Prosperity This is not just about providing financial incentives. Financial incentives should, in fact, be applied sparingly as research shows that these can actually impede motivation and performance in circumstances requiring creativity and innovation. Learn to tap into people’s natural drives for autonomy...

3 Keys to Reviving Work Ethic in Millenials

Think younger workers lack a solid work ethic? Canadian HR Reporter interviewed Eric Chester, author of Reviving Work Ethic, on the matter. Here are his thoughts: Value Differences Younger workers don’t have a poor work ethic, just a different one. New workers are entering the workforce with a different values and beliefs. It is important to understand that these values and beliefs are not necessarily bad.  They just offer a...

6 Ways to Develop Future Leaders

There are many benefits to grooming potential future leaders from within the company. These include familiarity with company operations, the strength of existing connections with other workers, and a deeper understanding of the corporate culture. The Wall Street Journal offers these six tips to mould potential leaders from within your current team: 1. Job Rotation Give your workers a chance to broaden their expertise by working in different parts...

6 Top CEOs Share The Key to Success

Success can be reached via many different paths. Some say it’s a strong idea. Others say it’s passion or drive. Six of BC’s top CEO’s agreed on one thing – people are key.
Finding the right right people, getting them ...

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2 Foundations for Creating a Healthy Workplace

A healthy workplace is not something that happens by accident. If your company aspires to be a top employer, consciously pursuing workplace health needs to be a top priority. The good news is that not only does a focus on workplace wellness go a long way to attract and retain great employees, there is a growing body of research to prove that such initiatives provide a substantial return on...

The Number One Secret to Managing Millennial Employees

If you are a Boomer or Gen X leader tasked with managing a team of millennial employees, there is really only one thing you need to know – they aren’t that different from you. Much ado has been made in the media about the differences between generations, but there is also ample research on their similarities. One such study, conducted by Ben Rosen, a Ph.D. and Professor of Organizational...

Stressed in the City Part 5 – Right-Sizing Your Vision

In this final installment of the Stressed in the City series I want to address an often misunderstood topic that is at the root of stress for many successful people – vision (or lack thereof).
The first pitfall is not having a vision at all. Having no vision for your life and work causes stress because you have nothing to work towards, nothing to look forward to, nothing to...