Employee Retention: The Essential Effort

This is not breakout news: for every business, in every industry, a key challenge is employee retention. Every single person tries to find happiness and prosperity, and the salary is not the only considered aspect. So how can we increase the loyalty and sense of belonging of your employees towards the company? By working on the no. 1 argument to increase happiness at work: atmosphere. Employees are looking for a motivating and positive atmosphere that contributes to exchanges and teamwork. But here is the snag: yes, your employees? attitude depends of the work atmosphere, but this atmosphere is greatly dependent of your employees? attitude. This is a vicious circle.

Establishing Trust with tam-tam team building: A Quebec init

If you are running a company, one of the most important things that you should keep in mind is not only the production process but also the welfare of your workers. Being happy at work as a member of a united and synergic team increases the employees? global satisfaction towards each other, and even more, towards the company. Consequently, the company?s growing line is reaching higher levels. In today?s market, qualified workers are intensely in demand. To be happy at work is not a goal to reach anymore: it is a basic criterion in job seeking. One of the reasons why workers want to find a way out of a company is mainly because they are not happy with the overall atmosphere of their workplace.

All employees are artists of change

Picasso said: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up".

Thus, we would be born to be creative, but life as we know it and responsibilities would disconnect us from our artistic side. Nevertheless, creativity is an imperative asset for a company to reach success, to innovate, to grow or to solve problems. But how can you stimulate you employees? creativity to improve their performance? Try artistic team building programs! It is about an innovative program for organizations that wish to develop the creativity of their administrators and staff. With activities like painting, handcrafting, ceramic, musical or physical expression, your employees learn to express themselves as a group in a creative way. You will notice that some refuse their creation to be bungled by a colleague, while others will notice in this teamwork a real way to increase the sense of belonging to the organization and the team.

Stop working, have fun and perform!

A human being will spend a fifth of his adult life at work. This time will seem infinite if his attitude regarding his tasks, colleagues or employer is negative. The loss of motivation, burnout and depression are just around the corner for those who lost all sense of happiness. There is only one solution to be passionate and happy at work, to self-accomplish, and to have a positive and contagious energy: stop working, and start having fun to maximize performance. This concept takes its source in the simple fact that if a person likes his job and has a positive attitude towards it, working does not seem to be a burden anymore, but a source of accomplishment as well as an effective way to proliferate within a team. Stress, anxiety and bad attitude being left behind, the individual becomes confident, has fun, wants to work as a team, and wills to share ideas.

Team building: Establish synergy for success

« Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. » -- Henry Ford

Already, at the beginning of the century, Henry Ford understood the importance of cohesion, teamwork and consolidation within a working group. But times change: the twenty-first century employees are independent and demanding. In a market where the demand for a young and more educated workforce grows exponentially with the retirement of boomers, many search from one company to another, from one position to another, looking for a better situation. And a significant turnover in staff within a friable team may represent astronomical costs in training, replacement, management ... and ultimately a flawed productivity.