The Watercooler

The Watercooler Blog is full of workplace tips and trends related to employee retention, engagement, interviewing and more. The Watercooler is frequently refilled, so gather ‘round often.

Encouraging Safety in Your Workplace

As a caring employer, you firmly believe there’s nothing more important than the health and safety of your workers. Whether your team has experienced a few recent safety events or you’re just trying hard to prevent issues from happening, you’re searching for effective ways to encourage workplace safety. Ready to get started. Here’s a few [...] Read More

Building Trust with New Employees is Crucial: Here’s Why

“Without trust we don’t truly collaborate; we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. It is trust that transforms a group of people into a team.” Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, paints a true yet somewhat optimistic picture of what can happen when trust is lacking between employees and [...] Read More

Do You Really Know What it Means to Be Inclusive?

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is not only the right thing to do, but it can also benefit your business in a number of ways. It fosters a safe, healthy environment for all, enhances engagement and productivity, and inspires creativity and innovation. But what does it really mean - and how do you get [...] Read More

How to Support Your Employees’ Mental Health

Prioritizing your employees’ health in every way - mental and emotional as well as physical - has never been more critical. Taking a holistic approach that raises awareness and offers treatment and service options for mental health is more than worth your time, effort and company resources. As noted by the World Health Organization, an [...] Read More

Celebrating Diversity in a Leadership Role

The benefits of a diverse workplace have been well documented. They include higher creativity and productivity, a more positive employer brand, and enhanced marketing and talent acquisition opportunities. And like everything else good about your business, building and celebrating diversity starts at the top. In fact, it all comes back to you. Your own identity [...] Read More

The Best Ways to Support Your Remote Employees

Whether your employees are remote or on site, certain key aspects of workplace processes, routines and culture that impact how connected people feel to their company and team members do not change. But it may be a bit more challenging to support these connections when employees are working from a distance. Do your remote workers [...] Read More

Are You On Track to Meet Your Mid-Year Goals?

If you set your annual goals in January, now is the time to check up on how things are going as mid-year approaches. To ensure you are able to achieve your desired results by the end of the calendar year, take some time now to adjust accordingly. Learn more about how to determine if you [...] Read More

Tips to Lead with Confidence

Confidence may seem to come naturally for some people, as though they were simply born with it. Maybe that’s true to some extent, but more often than not, it comes from life’s experiences, with all their bumps, bruises, setbacks, and victories. The same is true when it comes to being a confident leader. It takes [...] Read More

How Can You Help Your Team Feel GOOD about Their Work?

Being the boss is a big job — but your employees make it pretty easy. You feel very fortunate to have a talented and engaged group of people on your team, so you’re always looking for ways to make them see how amazing they really are. You’re busy searching for candidates seeking Las Vegas jobs [...] Read More