When it comes to measuring employee mood most leaders think of: A) too many questions and B) slow feedback loops. Is there a fun survey to keep a constant pulse on your organization’s mood? The Celpax is a physical device that hangs at the exit door. It simply asks all employees: How was your day? Coworkers respond by pressing the […]
Employee Engagement Best Practices One of the things we keep seeing in our data is that when workplaces are going through changes, whether it’s the possibility of an impending merger or moving offices, employee engagement results can get rocky. This was the case for Levi, a user from Potash Corp. The company is currently facing upcoming changes […]
Mental health in the workplace… how often is that discussed at management meetings? According to this Guardian article, seventy million working days are lost each year due to stress, depression and other mental health conditions in Britain. This costs Britain £70-100bn annually, equivalent to 4.5% of the nation’s GDP. Across the pond, in Canada, in any […]
Worker participation rate At Celpax we’ve known for a long time that it’s key to fix the “problem” of getting employees to participate when improving your work culture. Many leaders know just how difficult it is to get their colleagues to keep participating. Two years after the Celpax was born, we had leaders who thought it was low to […]
5 tools to measure the pulse of your employees Today the Celpaxers are extra happy. Why? Our device to get an employee pulse was included when Employee Scheduling Pro listed “5 tools to measure the pulse of your employees”. “As much as managers like to think that they have a good read on their employees, there’s always more to […]
Locus of control Who is in control of how you feel at work? This was the question posed by Desiree Rosier at Happy People Health Inc as she stood in front of the green and red button at work. Keys in hand and ready to go home for the day: “Locus of control is an important phenomena”, she […]
Should I add admins to my Celpax dashboard? A great workplace is everybody’s job. One of our users discovered this when she took it upon herself to help get more #GreenButtonDays in the office. She realized that improving at work isn’t about one person pulling everyone else along. Or the HR department doing all the work. […]
Increase Employee Engagement With major changes, it’s easy for employee engagement efforts to fall off the radar Workplaces are constantly changing because, after all, employees are humans and not robots! Like DEK Tech’s Agile HR Director put it: “If you’re going through a tough time at home, it will have an effect on your job too. The […]
How to empower employees How to empower employees at work comes natural to some (Check out Sven’s Employee Empowerment Techniques) and feels very tricky to others. What does empowering employees look like? And how does it affect work satisfaction? Being micromanaged isn’t fun. If you’re like me (or pretty much any other human), the ‘helicopter boss’ […]
