Deborah Merkin
Recent Posts
Scaling Your Business Successfully: Insights for Leaders Who Care
Scaling a business is exciting, but it’s rarely easy. Growth introduces new pressures that affect everyone, from your leadership team to your front-line employees. If it’s not handled thoughtfully, scaling can lead to burnout, turnover, and even a loss of faith in leadership—costing your organization time, money, and momentum.
Leadership That Listens: Building Momentum Through Action & Accountability
Leadership isn’t just about direction, it’s about connection. While traditional traits like discipline and teamwork still matter, the most effective leaders today are those who act on feedback, build trust through accountability, and keep their teams aligned around a shared purpose. These qualities don’t just keep your business humming, they fuel growth, innovation, and long-term engagement.
3 Keys to Any Safety Incentive Program
Safety incentive programs can be hard to design and even harder to implement. They should be designed to encourage teamwork, discourage non-reporting of incidents and obviously encourage safe behavior. The biggest obstacle employers face in implementing safety incentive programs is to make them a seamlessly integrated part of the employee culture, not a feared element. Here are three suggestions that will enhance any safety incentive program.
Annoying Office Quirks and Productivity
Every office has something annoying or broken in it that has the potential to drive employees crazy and reduce productivity. It seems like small deficiencies in the office environment shouldn't reduce productivity, but you would be surprised at how much the little things about an office environment that can reduce employee motivation and productivity. Office quirks are alright, but office deficiencies can be disruptive. A new survey from
Expert Market detailed the top 10 most annoying office deficiencies, here are our top 3.
Creating a Sense of Employee Purpose
At a large company like PwC it is a constant struggle to establish employee purpose. Employees don't want to feel like a cog in the wheel on the road to nowhere. They want to see their impact and want to have purpose in their job, whether they are in an executive management meeting or filing papers in the mailroom.
So how do employers work to establish purpose at work? Here are a few ideas that came from
PwC's recent summit on social purpose that could have a positive impact on an organization, large or small.
