Category: Employee Engagement

A leader’s guide to successful employee goal setting

Fall — it’s the season of changing leaves, pumpkin spice everything, and…goal setting. Employee goal setting offers big benefits for you as a leader and for your employees and the work of the collective team. How can leaders guide employees through setting goals? With the use of self-assessments, exploring professional interests and skills, and understanding...…

How leaders pave the way with goal setting

Fall is typically the time of year when organizations encourage reflecting and planning in the form of performance reviews and goal setting. At ethOs, we also view this time as an opportunity for leaders to set a great example. By demonstrating the value of self-assessing areas for improvement, you can show your team how setting...…

You Have a Great Work Environment…But What about Your Culture?

If I were to ask you what the key driver is to having a workplace with a high level of employee engagement, would you know how to answer? I ask this question to companies a lot, and the answers are never really all that surprising to me. I usually get one of two answers —...…

The Key to Employee Engagement: Knowing Where to Start

If I were to ask you right now how engaged you think your employees are, what would your answer be? I’ll give you a hint, the actual answer is far less. What we’ve found is that most employers believe their workforce has a 60 percent employee engagement level. Unfortunately, that’s quite a bit higher than...…

Employee Engagement: The Little Things ‘Add Up’

Last month, I helped Holmes Murphy host a client webinar around the impact of employee engagement and culture on workers’ compensation. An existing property casualty client, along with our Joyages and ethOs teams, shared their thoughts, experiences, and best practices they feel help employers in dealing with these topics. While we discussed some objective resources...…

Burnout Rages on in the Workplace

I can’t help but notice the increase in the number of articles specific to burnout as of late. In fact, according to recent study by Achievers, almost 85 percent of employees don’t think their company is doing enough to address the issue. The Harvard Business Review also highlighted an article a few weeks ago called...…