Can Hybrid Work Improve Company Culture?
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, most companies moved their teams out of the traditional workspace, transitioning to remote work and online collaboration. Ever since, business and HR leaders have wrestled with the tension between work-from-home perks, including greater flexibility and lower overhead, with potential downsides. Foremost among those downsides? The assumption that remote […]
What the Data Says About Quiet Quitting
You’ve probably heard the phrase “quiet quitting,” which has been one of the most-discussed topics in business and HR circles this year. Just in case you haven’t, quiet quitting refers to a phenomenon in which employees stop making any effort to go above and beyond their job description, instead coasting by on the bare minimum […]
Common Problems with Culture Building
Most business owners recognize the importance of developing a coherent company culture. Actually, doing so, however, can be one of the most challenging aspects of business ownership, as it involves drawing together employees from very different backgrounds and with very different sets of values, uniting them behind a common goal. Most organizations have a strategic […]
What are the Best Incentives to Boost Employee Retention?
Recruiting and retaining top talents can be challenging, especially when you’re a smaller company competing with enterprise-level competitors. Keeping up with all of the latest salary and benefits trends can be cost-prohibitive, but thankfully, there are a number of creative ways to incentivize your employees. Consider just a few of the ways in which you […]
Employee Engagement: Purpose Over Perks
Over the past few months, many business leaders and HR managers have been left scratching their heads over issues of employee retention. As the Great Resignation depletes the workforce, some businesses have pulled out all the stops to create a more attractive and enticing workplace, offering employee perks as wide-ranging as ping pong tables and […]
Healthy Employees Create Healthy Companies
Over the past couple of years, we’ve all seen the worrisome headlines about the state of the American workforce. Job satisfaction is declining. Productivity is going down, too. Meanwhile, burnout is on the rise, and mental health problems run rampant. Given these factors, it comes as no surprise that the “Great Resignation” continues with no […]
Create a Plan for Employee Retention
Any time you hire a good employee, then invest the time and expense to train them, you naturally want to keep them on the team for as long as possible. As such, recruiting and onboarding are just the beginning of the employee lifecycle; employee retention is just as important, and just as challenging for HR […]
10 Ways to Show Employees They Are Valued
In our new book, Unprecedented: Building a Multi-Generational Business on Trust, Respect and the Valuing of People, we provide business owners and HR teams with some signposts for enacting cultural change. Specifically, we outline some principles that can help employees feel like they are genuinely valued. That’s an important topic, one that can benefit the […]
WhiteWater Consulting Announces Launch of New Book, “Unprecedented”
HR consulting veteran Chuck Cooper has released Unprecedented: Building a Multi-Generational Business on Trust, Respect and the Valuing of People, a timely and action-oriented guide to developing a people-centric corporate culture. For over 25 years, WhiteWater Consulting’s Chuck Cooper has empowered businesses of all sizes to develop strong and resilient work cultures. Now, he has […]
What is Conscious Culture?
These days, most business leaders agree that it’s in the company’s best interests to have happy and healthy employees. There have arisen many different models for achieving this goal, and one of the most striking is the conscious culture model. This approach has been the subject of much discussion recently; but for those who don’t […]
