by Joanie Connell | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Remote Management
Help! My employees are experiencing quarantine fatigue! My employees are disengaging! How do I motivate my team remotely? Shortly after school went online, my daughter said to me, “They’ve taken away all the good stuff from school and made the bad stuff even...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 4, 2019 | Assessment, Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Leadership
How likely are you to lose your key employees? According to Gallup, only one-third of U.S. employees are engaged in their work and workplace. And only about one in five say their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work. What’s worse,...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog, Communication, Employee Engagement and Retention, Leadership
Remember when computerized communication technology first came into being? If you’re too young to know what that was like, it was magical! We went from waiting impatiently for the mail carrier or staying near the phone to receiving emails and texts in minutes or...
by Joanie Connell | Jan 9, 2018 | Employee Engagement and Retention, Generations, Podcast, Women Leaders
Joanie Connell, your host of REAL Life Lessons, has a conversation with Aaron Levy, CEO of Raise The Bar Consulting, on understanding how to keep your Millennial employees. You’ll hear answers to questions like these: Are there really generational differences or...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Coaching and Mentoring, Employee Engagement and Retention, Empowered, Leadership
It’s a simple gift, but it’s one leaders often overlook. There’s so much pressure to perform these days that it’s tempting to keep our employees on a tight leash. But, in doing so, we disempower them and cripple their growth. Although it may be a winning strategy in...
by Joanie Connell | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Flexible and Limber, Leadership, Technical Leaders
Highly structured lives, busy schedules and constant communication mean that employees today have less of a propensity to be creative. We think we have to buy tools, refurnish offices, and hire consultants to help us be creative, when what we really need is a little...
