Category: Building a Best Place to Work
Employees are your greatest asset. If you build around that model, everyone benefits. Hiring gets easier. Top talent is retained. Production increases. Profits grow. Build the Best Place to Work and you build a foundation for ongoing success.
Explore our Building the Best Place to Work article series to gain insights on five basic building blocks and other tips for creating the best working place. Please share your feedback in the comments section of your own hiring and employee engagement experiences:
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More Lessons from the Best Companies to Work for in America
In this earlier post from Stephanie Gaspary, she discusses the attributes that make up the companies the Great Place to Work® Institute recently named the 50 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For in America. All of these companies, the Institute’s researchers found, have eight specific things they do to create meaningful experiences for their employees, which I’ve listed below, along with concrete examples from some of those medium-sized companies that earned this honor:
Motivate – Ultimate Software (ranked #1) CEO Scott Scherr motivates the team with frequent company and department get-togethers, where he highlights various team successes.
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Creating a Best Place to Work: Lessons from 2009’s 50 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work for in America
I just sat through a great session at SHRM 2009 given by Michael Burchell, Ed.
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Are You Doing Business in One of The Best Cities for College Grads?
Yep, it’s that time of year again: College Graduation.
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What’s So Cool About Your Company?
Great office environments can not only boost creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, but they can also promote higher attraction, engagement and retention of your employees.
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Taking Innovation into Consideration: Why These 5 Companies are “Most Admirable”
I recently re-read Fortune’s list of this year’s Most Admired Companies, and I noticed how much the idea of “innovation” was mentioned. Because I also happened to have diversity on the brain, it occurred to me how closely diversity and innovation are combined. After all, what is innovation if not the result of divergent thinking and untapped ideas? But on top of that, it’s also about cultivating a culture that encourages new ideas, learning, skill development, career advancement, etc.
With all of this in mind, I looked at Fortune’s separate list of the Most Admirable Companies for managing talent to see what they’re doing right with regards to these elements, and how the combination invariably leads to continued success.
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The Best Place to Work – Where Is It?
Does a great place to work seem more like a fictional concept rather than a reality?

