Employees have a tendency to "tune in" and listen when you make a change in benefits. And the frequency or station tuned into most often is, WIII-FM -- also known as "What is in it for me?" This is both a challenge and an opportunity. [...]

Navigating the challenges of your business doesn’t leave a lot of time to plan how to engage employees in thinking and acting like owners. But as numerous studies have shown, gaining the performance advantages of shared ownership depends on good communication and engaged employees. Jumping [...]

Time magazine’s recent cover story, "The Great Retirement Ripoff," pictured a distraught man watching winged $100 bills fly into an empty, black void. If that striking visual isn’t enough to make you shudder, the piece contained a description of the Polaroid ESOP’s collapse. Its conclusion: [...]

Providing statements to ESOP participants can become as routine as a scheduled train – coming and going without any thought to its significance. The truth is this routine requirement can be a huge opportunity to switch employees’ "train of thought" to the benefits of shared [...]

In November, the Braas Company in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, celebrated its newest employees becoming “Certified Employee Owners” (CEOs). They also cheered the veteran employees who “recertified” as CEOs by completing each section of the company’s innovative educational program. The CEO Program -- created more than [...]

If employees are unclear about roles in an ESOP-owned company, they are draining energy that could be focused on company success. Eliminating the misperceptions about decision making is an important hurdle in running a healthy and dynamic ESOP company. In this interactive workshop managers or [...]

Are you looking for a way to make your employee meeting engaging but also educational? Consider the benefits of bringing in an outside speaker from Workplace Development Inc.: Create enthusiasm and business focus Bring outside credibility to your ESOP message Gain more impact from ESOP [...]

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SuiteAmerica uses email, web-seminars and handouts to communicate to its various locations. See www.SuiteAmerica.com for more information about their fully furnished apartments and corporate housing services. Español Many employee-owned companies translate ESOP legal documents such as the Summary Plan Description (SPD) for their [...]

“At Parametrix we have a strong ownership culture that we want to sustain and grow. As part of this we expect employees to learn of the language of business,” says Darlene Brown, Parametrix Chief Financial Officer, an employee-owned planning, engineering, and environmental consulting firm. The [...]