Inspirus Blog

Welcome to our space where we celebrate the power of rewards, recognition, and robust employee engagement. Dive in to discover transformative solutions that elevate workplace culture, boost morale, and drive unparalleled performance. Let's embark on a journey to appreciate, motivate, and empower your most valuable asset: your people.

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Promoting Self-care to Reduce Burnout and Improve Employee Wellness

Employee Retention

By Jodi Davidson
Note: As part of Inspirus’ weekly series of internal education events, Jodi Davidson, Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sodexo recently presented on the topic of self-care. Davidson’s presentation shared some proven strategies for identifying burnout and creating implementation plans to help manage employee health. 

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C-Suite's Responsibility for Building a Strong Corporate Culture

Employee Recognition

By Michael C. Haas
“The Great Resignation.” “Quiet Quitting.” These are trending topics across a wide range of industries struggling to attract, retain, and engage workers. Organizations are facing a leadership crisis that is affecting corporate culture and the employee journey in a big way. The massive shift to remote and hybrid work has created additional challenges — including employee retention — that companies continue to struggle to overcome.

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How Leadership Style Can Amp Up Engagement

Culture

By Lesa Blakey
“What’s your management style?” It’s a question that leaders are asked often and for good reason. Those being led want their supervisor or manager’s leadership style to complement their own style preferences.

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Culture

by Kelley Briggs
See how challenges with communication, work/life flexibility, hybrid arrangements and the "Great Resignation" are causing the C-suite to shift strategy.

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Top Priorities for HR Leaders in 2023

Employee Retention

By Theresa Harkins-Schulz
HR leaders have been front and center in organizations over the past few years as companies have responded to major impacts related to the pandemic. Looking ahead to 2023, their role will continue to evolve as they work with organizational leaders to reduce turnover, enhance workplace flexibility, and strengthen the use of technology across the enterprise.

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the-neuroscience-behind-gratitude-improving-the-employee-experience

Employee Engagement

By Theresa Harkins-Schulz
Neuroscience has become quite a buzzword in conversations around employee experience, work culture, talent development, and many more aspects of the human experience as it relates to team culture and work.

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Employee Recognition

By Paula Ambrozic
This November, we’re celebrating National Gratitude Month by exploring how gratitude can help us humanize the workplace . What does that mean, exactly? Simply, it means building a culture that recognizes that we are all humans, that work is a huge part of our lives, and that our work experience is often an emotional experience. How we treat one another at work matters — a lot.

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4 Tips for International Accounting Day

Culture

By Lionel Koch
International Accounting Day is observed on November 10 each year, in honor of Italian mathematician Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli who is widely considered the father of modern accounting and who published a bookkeeping manual this month in 1494. 

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6 Ways to Honor International Stress Awareness Day

Employee Engagement

By Jennifer Disco
Today, November 2nd, is International Stress Awareness Day, a day established by the International Stress Management Association which falls on the first Wednesday of November.

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Employee Engagement

By Kelley Briggs
Chances are, you already know what a toxic or hostile workplace culture is without ever reading a formal definition. Toxic work culture is an umbrella term that encompasses many negative, undesirable, and often harmful characteristics. It might mean a culture that is overtly or subtly exclusionary, unfair, or inequitable, creates high levels of burnout, and so forth.

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Culture

By Lesa Blakey
When people talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, most discussions center on visible diversity such as gender, age, race, ethnicity, etc. Neurodiversity is just as important and, because it is less obvious (and in many cases completely unseen), it’s easy to overlook. 

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Generational Diversity: How to Attract and Retain Talent of All Ages

Employee Engagement

By Sylena McClendon
October is Global Diversity Awareness Month and an oft-overlooked — but still very much key — component of workplace diversity is age. Creating strategies to encourage generational diversity is crucial to DEI success.

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Employee Engagement

By Kelley Briggs
In this tough economy, it’s more important than ever that HR professionals take steps to boost engagement, satisfaction and loyalty among current employees, while building and supporting a culture that will attract new candidates.

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Employee Engagement Strategies for Attracting & Retaining Your Workforce

Employee Retention

By Taylor Zansberg
The world of work has done quite the 360 since the emergence and now aftereffects of COVID-19. A large part of the workforce has learned that not only can they do their job remotely, but they can do it even more productively. Business News Daily says: