What Happens When Groupthink Goes Wrong at the Executive Level
People are increasingly choosing to work for companies with mission statements and core values they can feel good about. It runs the gamut —…
Managers are the Key to Unlocking Employee Engagement
This article first appeared in the Indianapolis Business Journal. If you’ve ever left a job (or stayed at one) because of your boss, you’re not…
The #1 Employee Retention Strategy for Preventing Staff Turnover
If you had to guess, how much would you say employee turnover costs companies each year? $100,000? $11 million? $100 million? Try $11…
Emplify’s Top 10 Employee Engagement Blogs of 2018
You can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. So to kick off the new year, we thought it would be a…
6 Steps to Better Onboarding Plans for New Hires
The experience a new employee has during the onboarding period can make or break how they feel about the organization, how excited they are about…
How North Pole Industries Increased Elf Engagement by 26%
Emplify works with a lot of big companies, but this year, we worked with our largest customer ever — North Pole Industries — the world’s…
Managers: It’s Time to Stop Delegating and Start Autonomizing
How much do you (or your managers) delegate? If the answer is “a good bit,” it may be time for a different approach. As a…
3 Ways Employee Engagement Drives Tech Talent Recruitment
The tech talent war is no joke. An alarming 65% of chief information officers say that a lack of technical skills is currently holding their…
Why the “Worst” Time is Often the Best Time to Measure Employee Engagement
Often, when talking to chief people officers and executives, our team has conversations that go a little something like this: Emplify: Have you thought about…
Why People Value Culture More Than Compensation Now
Culture is a marathon, not a sprint. But in recent years, a trend has developed around treating culture as a commodity — one that can…