In today’s competitive job market, employee turnover is becoming an increasing concern for today’s business owners, especially since high employee turnover hurts a company’s bottom line. Experts estimate it costs upwards of twice an employee’s salary to find and train a replacement. And frequent turnover can damage morale among remaining employees, thereby hurting the corporate culture.
In this article we will discuss how you can safeguard the capital you’ve invested in your employees and their talent.
Although most of us are taught many valuable lessons as well as information during our school years, one extremely important skill that most of are never taught, yet is required for both healthy work and interpersonal relationships, is conflict resolution.
For decades, many have been contemplating the usefulness, as well as benefits of plants indoors, to increase well-being and remove toxins. Well, after 10 years of research, the now the guess-work on the health benefits of plants has been put aside, as Dr Chris Knight from Exeter University and his fellow psychologists, concluded that employees were 15% more productive when offices are filled with just a few houseplants, as employees who actively engage with their surroundings were found to be better workers.
Years ago, to get your content read by the masses, you would take out an ad in the local newspaper, or set up a radio announcement. This would ensure that the vast majority of the population saw your information. Unfortunately, the number of channels we use to communicate has exponentially increased, making it incredibly difficult for this approach to be effective. And if it is effective in the slightest, measuring ROI is absolutely impossible. With so many channels to choose from, users hardly ever get all of their information from the same place.
While a few winter enthusiasts dismiss the winter blues, in North America’s coldest cities, just leaving the house can be an ordeal in the winter months. First, expect to take longer than usual to get properly geared up to walk out the door (that is, if you can find the hats, mitts and goggles required to face another icy day). People who drive to work also need to leave ample time to shovel out, scrape off and heat up their vehicles before hitting the road. Finally, anyone who takes public transit should brace themselves for delays, frozen appendages and ice-encrusted eyebrows.
In the first eight months of this year, Canada welcomed 12.6 million international travelers, making it the strongest season in seven years, according to Destination Canada. In addition, many Canadians are choosing staycations as a way to stretch their budget in a soft economy.
Holiday marketing is not something you should haphazardly throw money at. Competition for your consumers’ attention is fierce during the season and you absolutely have to engage in a really unique way if you want them to see you. We mean a Really. Unique. Way. There is more pressure on businesses today to deliver winning holiday messages than there was just a few years ago. True story.
