Today marks National Employee Health and Fitness day! This annual event occurs the third Wednesday of every May and is dedicated to encourage physical activity in the workplace. Though it’s only recognized once a year, it’s important for businesses to realize that instituting health and wellness...read more

Do you sometimes feel like you’ve exhausted all ideas for increasing your customer base? Or like you’re reinventing the wheel over and over again with little return? What’s the secret to winning new customers in such a competitive marketplace? How do you stand out among the rest and continue to...read more

In the last blog, we considered Level II Evaluations, which focus on measuring the gain in knowledge after training. This can be done through pre and post training tests. We can also assess this by comparing the results of participants who have been through training to those who have not been...read more

Gretchen Rubin, author of the bestselling book The Happiness Project, recently sat down with OPEN Forum contributor Barry Moltz to talk about her experience learning to make her own happiness. While Rubin's book explores many methods of achieving personal happiness, her findings can also be applied...read more

The workplace can seem like such a serious place, and sometimes it should be. Research from fall 2011 that was conducted for Accountemps found that nearly 60 percent of chief financial officers thought that having a sense of humor helped an employee fit in with the companies' culture. That's right,...read more

Inc., a website dedicated to helping small businesses flourish, recently published the top qualities great bosses have that can motivate their employees to work hard and grow their business. Jeff Haden cites these five characteristics that a remarkable boss should embody: Develop every employee:...read more

Performance reviews are a necessary evil in the workplace. The good news is that the one-way, annual performance evaluation where an employee gets to hear about the all things she did wrong over the past year, and maybe a few that she did right, isn't the be all and end all of the review process....read more

Dan Ariely: Beware Conflicts of Interest I love this story. Towards the end Dan says "The most difficult thing, of course, is to recognize that sometimes we are too blinded by our own incentives... When I was doing these experiments, I was helping science. I was eliminating the data to get the true...read more

A recent survey of public safety employees in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina reveals the importance of employee surveys to avoid issues of low morale, low worker satisfaction and fear of job security. After a public scandal and the firing of the former director of the city's public safety...read more

Diverse workforces in the U.S. and many metropolises abroad are important because customer demographics are expanding more and more every day. Diversity is one that could have a significant impact on the earning potential of companies, like retail and food service outlets, that interact directly...read more