What’s Your Low Employee Engagement Costing You?
According to Haiilo: - Companies with a highly engaged workforce are 21% more profitable. - Good company culture increases revenue by four times. - 33% of professionals cite boredom as their main reason to leave their jobs. Sadly, these metrics (and feelings) haven’t improved much in corporate America over time. If you’re wondering if your employees are engaged, consider
Does Being Self-Critical Pay Off?
People with higher self-compassion, or being kind towards themselves, generally have the following traits (BBC): - Proactive Personality: They are more likely to take care of problems before they get worse. - More Motivated to Correct Their Errors: They are more likely to fix their mistakes. - More Compassionate Towards Others: They are less likely to try to
What Are The Benefits of Gratitude?
Gratitude rhymes with “attitude”, and it means to have a thankful and pleasing feeling about what you’ve received from someone else. When we feel gratitude, we’re “pleased” with what someone else did for us or how they treated us. The magic of letting yourself feel gratitude is that you’re simply so thankful and appreciative of someone
Who Wins When You Choose Kindness?
When we treat people with kindness, simply being nice to each other, everyone wins. Consider what kindness really means to you. Kindness means being friendly, generous, and considerate of other people. Kindness is simply giving other people our time, a little bit of our talent, or “that thing” we do better than others, or our heart. Kindness comes
What’s the ROI on Kindness?
Is prioritizing kindness worth it for you and your team? According to HRMorning, creating a culture of kindness can have the following benefits for your team: -Increased productivity and satisfaction -Healthier workers -Higher-quality work -Lowered stress -Increased engagement -Increased happiness Leading with hospitality moves people to move, with purpose and passion, because of a leader’s genuine kindness. In other words, when leaders are
Think You “Should be” Further Along? Read This.
How often do you leave your office, hop in your car, turn on the radio, get five miles down the road, and have no idea what songs, commercials, or talk radio segments just played in the very car in which you’re the only passenger? Maybe I’m the only one, but does your mind race with
5 Steps to Beat Boredom At Work
Do you feel stuck in your job and like you’re doing the same boring thing every day with no end in site? We’ve all been caught in a monotonous rut whether that be in our career, relationship, family dynamic, and/or social dynamic. It happens…it’s ok. We’re all in the same boat. Curiosity is the key to beating boredom. Thought for
How to Better Understand Your Team
We can all agree that it’s very difficult to foster productive, meaningful relationships at work, at home, or in the community without effective communication. By the same token, it’s nearly impossible to communicate effectively, with anyone, without some level of understanding. Seek to understand your team by asking questions. Thought for the week: Intentionally seeking to understand, in
Do You Trust Your Team? Their Productivity and Engagement Depend On It
“Compared with people at low-trust companies, people at high-trust companies report: 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives, 40% less burnout” (Harvard Business Review). The final piece to our three-part puzzle of leading with hospitality is possessing the ability
How Can You Consistently Deliver for Your Team?
When we shift our mindset to think about leadership as a service to others, those we lead can feel it. Once they feel our presence and service, they become inspired to be that same type of leader and person to the people who matter most in their lives as well. Here are some ways you can