by Jason Lauritsen | Aug 15, 2019 | Leadership
Managers: How important are one-on-one meetings with your employees? This question comes up somewhat regularly because these meetings are time-consuming, and most managers are so overwhelmed with work that they are hunting for any excuse to cut something from the...
by Jason Lauritsen | Aug 1, 2019 | Workplace
This weekend, while at a beer garden with my wife during our community’s summer festival, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in years. When I first saw him, we chatted for a few minutes, and I learned that he’d just moved his family to our town and...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 18, 2019 | Workplace
There’s an interesting “chicken or the egg” debate going on regarding employee engagement. Maybe you’ve had some version of this discussion within your own organization. Who is responsible for employee engagement? Is it the...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 20, 2019 | Change
We’ve been working on making work suck less for quite a while now. Gallup has been measuring employee engagement for nearly 30 years and the results have always been terrible. Most employees are not fully engaged at work. In other words, work isn’t working very well...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
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