Employee Engagement Archives - Blue Fjord Leaders

Four No-Nonsense Tips for Retention

by Shelley Row | Sep 13, 2022 | Employee Engagement, Foundational Skills, Leadership in Engineering

How to keep your employees engaged Employee retention is a hot topic in the business world right now. Every company wants to find ways to keep their employees from leaving, but it’s not always easy. There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not an...

Get Motivated to Motivate Your Staff

by Shelley Row | Jun 14, 2022 | Communication skills, Employee Engagement, Neuroscience

Now more than ever, it’s time to motivate staff The recent LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Survey which canvasses roughly 5,000 US workforce members every two weeks noted a six-point drop in the optimism that employees felt about their employer’s business. While there...

Employees are Leaving — Here’s What They Want You to Know

by Shelley Row | Jun 29, 2021 | Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership During COVID19

Employee retention. It’s a conundrum for even the most-seasoned managers. Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen an extensive uptick in conversations about The Great Resignation, as well as the what and how of keeping people in-house. Fewer are asking why everyone is...

Is your current leadership development program a waste of time?

by Shelley Row | Oct 28, 2020 | Leadership, Employee Engagement

Leadership development is about applied learning that lasts. When I shifted to applied learning techniques, I saw increased impact, transformed behavior, and lasting change. Why leadership development trainings don’t work · Does your organization provide periodic...

Staying engaged with virtual teams

by Shelley Row | Jul 23, 2020 | communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership During COVID19

In times of uncertainty, be certain of what your team needs from you As a leadership trainer and coach for over a decade, I can’t help but consider how significantly this ongoing pandemic has pulled back the curtain to reveal some of the most effective and glaringly...

Three Reasons Do-It-Yourself Leadership Development is a Bad Business Decision

by Shelley Row | Jun 2, 2020 | communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, personality profile, success

It seems like a good idea to use your existing senior staff to develop and conduct leadership training for mid and up-and-coming engineer managers. After all, you’re already paying them and they have proven leadership skills. Why not use them to train others?...