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Is your organizational culture failing to support business success? Here’s how to identify what needs to change, and how to make it happen.

The best way to survive an emergency weather situation is preparedness. Having a plan in place that everyone knows how to execute is key to keeping everyone safe. Make sure it is understood and practiced often.

If you were mentored before, consider what you liked about the relationship. What worked? What didn’t? What would you like to have changed about your mentorship?

Delight the customer, astound the customer, serve the customer, the customer comes first — we’ve all heard it. We’ve probably even said it, after receiving poor customer service. Chances are, we’ve also probably been on the other end, the one serving a customer that is just impossible to please, and wished for a second (okay, longer than a second) that we could remind them that we’re a person, too.

It isn’t difficult to identify the employees who hate their jobs. In fact, you may already have someone in mind some whose unhappiness is palpable, and maybe even disruptive to your organization. Failing to identify these team members and re-engage them can not only hurt your team, but your bottom line.

Organizations who have refocused themselves on employee engagement have refocused themselves on meeting their employees where they are, as individuals with different and unique needs.

There is one consistent relationship trend among employee retention initiatives and success, and that is the effort that companies put into meeting their employees as individuals with discrete and unique needs and motivations.

Using knowledge about each and all of your employees to inform your engagement program will guarantee that your initiatives are successful, and accomplish what matters: expressing the value of your relationship with your employees, and vice versa.

When asked, over 80% of polled employees report that when implemented in their training program, formalized training increased their self-confidence in their ability to do their jobs. When employees feel confident along with having effective transfer of skills, you’ll absolutely see their productivity increase.

Whether we like it or not, our work life affects what we prioritize in our home life, and vice versa. The relationships between work and life influence your priorities, even if you try and keep the two worlds separate.