BHS BLOG
Employee Engagement
4 Must-Haves for Employee Wellness Programs
Editor’s Note: Our second guest blogger for this month is Kembre Roberts, Manager for Employee Wellness at Southwest Airlines. She is no stranger to the corporate wellness world— before joining Southwest Airlines in 2011, her first 10 years in the industry were focused on designing corporate wellness initiatives and linking health plan savings to healthy lifestyles. Read More
Ten Dangerous Myths About Employee Engagement
Editor’s Note: Our friend Rodd Wagner is one of the sharpest minds in our industry. So we were delighted when he offered to write a guest post on a subject that’s been bothering both him and us – the many dangerous myths about employee engagement that too many employers believe. Rodd makes some great points. Read More
Difficult Conversations at Work
A Guide for Supervisors
Management can have great rewards, and great challenges. Handling a difficult conversation—delivering bad news or discussing an uncomfortable subject—is definitely one of the toughest parts of the job. It must be, or else why would so many supervisors go out of their way to avoid doing it? Yet try as they might, the truth is Read More
4 Ways to Improve Unhealthy Rivalries in the Workplace
When most people think of a workplace rivalry, they think of competition. Competition is a natural and inevitable force within a growing and thriving workplace. Employees compete for recognition and promotions. Your sales team competes for new business. Even some wellness programs promote rivalry in the form of challenges and incentives. In many cases, workplace Read More
What to Do About Mr. Negativity
Every organization has a Mr. (or Ms.) Negativity. Symptoms can include sour facial expressions, eye-rolling, a pessimistic outlook, cynical commentary, disruptive office gossip, unexplained absenteeism and poor work performance. Just how serious is this diagnosis, you ask? Ever heard the expression, “People are hired for their skills, but terminated for their behavior”? Enough said. Unfortunately, negativity can be Read More