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Is Your Staff Cross-Trained?

Peter Stark

Through our employee surveys, team assessments and coaching, we hear from clients frequently that their organization has silos. With the pandemic, it brought out a need more than ever for employees to be cross trained with employees working in remote, in office, in quarantine, or out sick. Increased cross-departmental teamwork.

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Does your opinion matter? Should it?

Peter Stark

Companies in our Best of the Best Benchmark from our Employee Opinion Surveys rate almost 20 points higher than organizations in our Overall Benchmark regarding their ideas and opinions counting at work. To accomplish this: Set aside time in every team meeting to ask for employee opinions and really listen!

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That’s Not My Job!

Peter Stark

What is amazing is that most DMV employees are seasoned veterans capable of being cross-trained to handle every possible transaction a customer may need to accomplish. Over the years, we have conducted Employee Engagement Surveys with over 300 organizations and have over 100,000 opinions in our Peter Barron Stark Companies benchmarks.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

A survey of leaders by McKinsey & Co. found that only 25% of thought that training actually improved employee performance. Environmental scanning is a strategic workforce planning process to systematically survey and interpret relevant talent data to identify external opportunities and threats that could influence future decisions.

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Increasing Workplace Culture and Morale Isn’t HR’s Job

Peter Stark

After companies conduct an Employee opinion survey, they are faced with the challenge of taking action to create real change. Create Benchmarks. The CEO and VP or HR will approve the budget that will enable the company to administer an Employee Opinion Survey, Customer Satisfaction Survey, or a 360 Leadership Development Assessment.

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Rating the English Proficiency of Countries and Industries Around the World

Harvard Business

Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff. We published the results of this survey in the third edition of the EF English Proficiency Index for Companies.

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Labour Retention: How you can create ‘Sticky’ Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

Discussing salary surveys and benchmarking, particularly regarding key competitors (or referring to former staff and how great their ‘new job’ is). Not wanting to meet socially and generally withdrawing from others. Follow these guidelines… Explain the purpose of the meeting and thank the person for their time.

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