Making the Most of Millennials
Millennials are the future of our workforce and like it or not, us Gen Xers and Boomers, will be working for them, if we’re not already! Millennials, or Gen Y, are members of the birth cohort born...
View Article4 Steps to Building a Creative Workplace
Creativity, historically associated with artists, writers and, designers, has a big impact on a company’s brand, culture, and team. A ‘creative workplace’ is typically defined as a place that...
View ArticleHow Volunteering Helps You Achieve The Extra Degree
A great way to engage your employees, keep morale high, and ultimately increase their productivity is to encourage and support charity work. Data supports that teams that invest in volunteering...
View ArticleFinishing Strong
The finish line for 2014 is in sight. What are you doing to motivate your team to finish strong? Now is the time to coach your team into making a strong finish for the 2014 calendar year. The fourth...
View ArticleWorkShop, the creative workplace is honored!
Louisville, KY, November 12, 2014: At its Fall Institute at the Galt House, the Family Resource and Youth Services Coalition (FRYSC) of Kentucky presented WorkShop, the Creative Workplace, with the...
View ArticleSocial Recognition: A Powerful Way to Recognize Employee Development and...
The TLNT article, “The Next Big HR Trend? Maybe It Should Be More Employee Recognition” by Derek Irvine offers a reflection on topics covered at a recent conference for employee engagement. Big goals...
View ArticlePerformance Management Skill Building and Employee Development: Assess Create...
The Houston Chronicle article, “An Employee Development Plan” breaks down the elements of performance management. Employee development is more than a single annual performance review. This performance...
View ArticleLooking Forward: Break down the Barriers and Build Strong Cross Departmental...
Originally published January 2013. Cross-departmental collaboration offers opportunities to focus on strengths and the way to do more as an organization. What can your departments accomplish as they...
View ArticleCommunication and Teamwork Tools to Manage Workplace Diversity
Note: Originally Published September 2013. As we look forward to 2014 reflecting on the strides made forward in improving transparency and communication will show accomplishments and offer insights...
View ArticleCreative Team Building Efforts and Community Give Backs Can Refocus Growing...
Note: This was originally published November 4, 2013 The Entrepreneur article, “3 Teambuilding Exercises Tailored to Unique Business Challenges” relates the benefits of team building to specific...
View ArticleMillennials Corporate Values and Fun at Work
Note: We have also learned that community service is extremely important to millennials and getting opportunities to apply their passion for community through their workplace is a great way to build...
View ArticleGive Back: A Key to Well Balance Life and Ingredient of Happiness for Engaged...
The Social Workplace article, “You Are in Charge of Your Own Employee Happiness” offers the conclusion that employee happiness is a result of engagement not the solution to achieve employee engagement....
View ArticleSense of Service Acts that Have Huge Impacts for Power of People
Inc.com offers a to do list worth noting if you are dedicating your self and your business to a sense of service. “4 Completely Unselfish Things You Should Do Today” offers a to do list of task that...
View ArticleLiving and Leading with Purpose: A Benefit of Service that Reaches Beyond...
The Forbes article, “Leadership Consciousness” begins with the author’s statement about helping people “who want to live and lead at a higher level.” Similar to the concept of Maslow’s Hierarchy of...
View ArticleSense of Service to Employees Results in Talent Retention
Talent retention is a primary concern for businesses. TLNT offers advice in “How Do You Find and Keep Great People? Make Them Feel Special”. Using lessons learned from Marriott Hotels and Southwest...
View ArticleHumility Service and Passion: Keys to Successful Team Engagement
While the article from TLNT, “Humble Leadership: The Research Shows It’s a Competitive Advantage” is not necessarily about how businesses and their sense of service build passion it gets at an...
View ArticleThe Importance of Leadership for Trust Collaboration and Creativity
A post from YottaFire, “Growing Trust Silences Monologues in Meetings” hits on a few themes we have discussed this year including trust, relationship building and creativity. All of these activities...
View ArticleBOB: A Corporate Program that Inspires and Ignites Teams
The Bloomberg Now post, “A Time to Give Thanks” discusses the Best of Bloomberg aka BOB volunteer program. The program has a goal to inspire employees to good corporate citizenship. As the article...
View ArticleReclaiming Purpose and Igniting Passion with Creativity
WorkShop, the Creative Workplace exists to reclaim purpose and ignite passion through creativity. We use the “pay it forward” philosophy as the main ingredient in all of our programs. Each of our...
View ArticleDesigned Serendipity: Opportunities to Connect Brands Customers and Community
While this Forbes article, “How to Build Brand Love Via Serendipity” isn’t exactly talking about a greater sense of service it does underline some important points about passion, recognition and shared...
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