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How an Online Risk Survey Strengthens and Can Even Save Your Company
By Howard Deutsch · 12 years ago
Conducting an online risk survey is a low-cost and highly effective way to identify and assess business risks. In our highly competitive and fast changing economy, business executives and Board members should consider conducting an ...
How an Employee Survey Can Boost Your Company's Profit and Competitiveness
By Howard Deutsch · 12 years ago
Whether your business is small or mid-sized, or a Fortune 500 company, you can significantly increase performance, profit, sustainability and competitiveness by closely listening to your employees. Conducting an online employee survey / online employee ...
Using Employee Engagement Surveys to Boost Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
By Howard Deutsch · 12 years ago
If you need to increase your company's competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need ...
Are Your Employees Comfortable Going to Their Manager with Problems – Employee Surveys Assess Trust
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
The relationship between your organization's managers/supervisors and the employees reporting to them is critical to the success of your organization. A key component of the relationship between managers and employees is the level of comfort ...
Employee Satisfaction Surveys Determine if Poor Internal Communications is Hurting Your Business
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
One of the areas that consistently receives low ratings in employee satisfaction surveys / employee engagement surveys is intra and inter-departmental communications. In addition to receiving relatively low ratings, employee survey / employee opinion survey ...
Optimizing Payback from Employee Satisfaction Surveys & Employee Engagement Surveys
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Do you need or want to increase the performance of your employees and your organization's performance? Conducting employee satisfaction surveys / employee engagement surveys is a fast and highly cost-effective way to achieve breakthrough increases ...
Boosting Your Company's Competitiveness with Employee Surveys and HR Surveys
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Both in good economic times and when times are highly challenging, companies need to compete aggressively to grow and thrive. Business leaders sometimes rely too heavily on their own knowledge to make important decisions, without ...
Fixing American Healthcare -- Here is what Needs to be Done
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
To many Americans the healthcare system is broken and in major need of overhaul. The good news is that the Affordable Healthcare Act of 2010 addresses many of America's healthcare problems. The bad news is ...
Do You Really Know What's in the 2010 Healthcare Law?
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Obama. It is primarily health insurance reform legislation. The passage of this legislation was highly controversial. Most Democrats supported the legislation ...
Assessing Trust Between Senior Management and Employees -- Employee Surveys Provide Striking Results
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Achieving high levels of trust between senior management and employees is essential for the sustainable success of any organization. The best leaders earn the respect and trust of the people they lead. Lack of trust ...
Can Your Organization's Employees Speak Openly and Candidly to Their Manager?
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
For your company to be highly successful today and in the future, your organization needs to have highly engaged employees and a healthy culture. A healthy culture includes communication without barriers, collaboration and innovation, among ...
Is IT Hurting Your Organization's Performance? -- Conduct an IT Survey to Find Out
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Poorly performing IT support services, hardware, software and networks may be costing your organization a bundle in terms of lost productivity, poor customer service, frustration, lost business and other issues negatively impacting company performance.
Chances ...
IT's Impact on Business Performance – IT Customer Surveys Provide Answers
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
IT Customer Satisfaction Surveys / IT User Satisfaction Surveys Assess IT's Impact on Employees and Customers:
While IT customer survey findings are unique for every company, there are many similar themes, problems and opportunities identified ...
Comprehensive Employee Surveys Boost Employee and Company Performance
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Conducting comprehensive employee surveys is like doing a full-body scan of your organization. They can identify cancers that are eating away at and threatening your business. Comprehensive employee surveys typically include 40-70 questions. This is ...
How to Use Employee Surveys to Increase Employee and Company Performance
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Comprehensive Employee Surveys Tell You "What You Need to Know" to Boost Your Organization's Performance and Competitiveness:
Conducting comprehensive employee surveys, including employee opinion surveys, employee engagement surveys and employee satisfaction surveys is a highly ...
Using Salesforce Surveys to Energize Your Sales People and Increase Sales
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Salesforce Surveys -- The solution for increasing salesforce performance and significantly increasing sales:
Conducting a salesforce survey / salesforce opinion survey is a low cost and highly effective way to gather comprehensive anonymous feedback from ...
How Business Risk Surveys Identify, Assess, Quantify and Enable Mitigation of Business Risks
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Risk Surveys Provide a Clear Picture of Your Organization's Risks:
Every organization faces its own set of risks, some of which are known but not necessarily quantified or understood, and others that are hidden. Risk ...
How to Avoid Employee and Customer Safety Risks and Litigation Using Employee, Customer and Risk Surveys
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
A potentially costly and embarrassing risk that many organizations face is employee and customer safety risk. Some of the many types and causes of safety risks employees and customers face include:
• Risks from using ...
Using Employee Surveys and Leadership Surveys to Assess and Strengthen Leader Effectiveness
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Leadership is one of the most important drivers of organizational and business performance. Leaders at the top of organizations have enormous leverage in determining the business, strategies and direction of organizations. Top level leaders put ...
Avoiding Employee Abuse and Discrimination Litigation Employee Surveys
By Howard Deutsch · 13 years ago
Is Your Organizations Corporate Culture an Enabler of Employee Abuse and Discrimination?
Employee abuse has many forms including verbal abuse, sexual harassment, discrimination based on age, ethnic background, gender or sexual preference, and physical abuse. ...