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Meet the people driving performance management transformation

Meet the team behind Mesh. We have some of the industry's smartest & most experienced people working together to transform performance management.

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4 ways you can benefit from instant gratification

Instant gratification in the form of continuous feedback drives collaboration, motivation, and recognition. Here's how people leaders can use it.

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Get Started with Employee Net Promoter Score

eNPS is one of the most effective ways for you to measure employee engagement. Learn how to run eNPS surveys to build a winning culture.

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Employee engagement down? Here's how pulse surveys can help.

Employee engagement is down globally, costing companies $7 trillion each year. Here's how pulse surveys help leaders understand & improve employee experience & engagement in real-time.

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Are you losing employees to the competition? Here's what you should do

Losing your best talent to competition is demoralizing. Here's why it's happening and what you can do to encourage people to stay longer with your company.

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Employee Engagement 101

Engaging your employees is vital for business success. Learn how to make sure your employees are happy, productive, and engaged.

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How to Measure Employee Engagement Right

Employee engagement is critical for any organization. But what is it, really? And how can you measure it? Learn more.

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Say Goodbye to Turnover With This Employee Development Plan

We've outlined 7 actionable ways you can create an employee development plan that can reduce turnover, and help employees grow and meet their career goals.

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7 Tips on Fostering Positive Company Culture via Employee Engagement

People who are engaged at work positively impact their role, as well as the company culture. Here are 7 tips to create a winning company culture and improve engagement.

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21 Easy Employee Engagement Ideas for 2022

Are you trying to improve employee engagement? Read this short blog to get 21 great ideas to keep your team inspired, engaged and productive.

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6 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Employee Morale

Employee morale determines the attitude of a team and impacts the productivity of an organization. Read about ways to foster great employee experiences.

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5 Things You Can Do Today to Engage Remote Employees

Encouraging motivation and engagement can be a challenge with remote employees. Read about the best ways to engage remote employees and measure employee engagement.

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How to Interpret Your eNPS Score

Check out this guide for how to interpret your company's eNPS score, things to keep in mind about those scores, and what improvement looks like.

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25 Must-Ask Employee Engagement Survey Questions

Understand the pulse of your employees with these employee engagement survey questions!

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How to Make Your Team Meetings More Fun and Engaging

There are plenty of ways to make team meetings more fun and engaging. Read these simple strategies to help you get inspired.

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5 Tips to Encourage Peer Recognition Between Coworkers

One of the best ways to foster kindness between coworkers is to encourage more employee recognition. Here are 5 ways your company can get started today.

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5 Employee Engagement Tips for When Your Team is Struggling

Are your team members struggling at work? If your employees are going through a tough time, try these employee engagement ideas to get everyone back on track!

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How to Celebrate Diversity in the Workplace With 6 Easy Activities

It's important to not only encourage diversity in the workplace, but to celebrate it as well. Use these 6 activities to help your team celebrate diversity.

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Question to Ask Employees to Boost Engagement

Asking the right questions allows for great conversations, coaching and building trust within the business. Here are some examples and guidelines for managers.

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Why Do People Leave Jobs?

Are you wondering what to do about attrition? To find out why people leave jobs and to understand how to retain them, read this short blog.

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Why Undervalued Employees Can Affect Your Business

Undervalued employees can turn out to be costly for your company. Read on to understand how feeling underappreciated can be detrimental to your bottom line.

Engagement
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Signs of Disengaged Employees and How You Can Retain Them

Disengaged employees cost a lot of money. This article covers the factors that lead to employee disengagement and offers tips to improve employee engagement.

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10 Amazing Examples of Employee Wellness Programs

Workplaces that offer employees great wellness programs are likely to thrive in revenue and employee loyalty. This article tells you about some of the best!

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7 Amazing Examples of Employee Wellness Programs

Employee wellness programs are usually seen as a nice-to-have, and not a strategic imperative. But the data demonstrates otherwise. Read on to know more.

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Positive Reinforcement: Using Peer Recognition to Motivate Employees

If you're an employer looking for new ways to motivate your staff, read our guide. We discuss how peer recognition can motivate employees in the workplace.

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Monitoring Satisfaction: Implementing Employee NPS in Your Company

If you're looking for ways to measure your employees' job satisfaction, you need to implement Employee NPS. Read here as we explain everything you need to know.

Engagement
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Workplace Social Recognition in the Digital Age

As humans, we thrive off social recognition. So if you're not acknowledging your employees, here are some ways social recognition can make a difference.

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Top 10 Recognition Ideas For Work in 2022

It's time to rethink the traditional ways of recognising your employees’ work. Here are 10 ideas to build a culture of making your employees feel valued.

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Pulse Surveys: How to Use and Create a Pulse Survey

Are you still doing tedious yearly reviews? Then it's time that changed. So, we've created this guide to tell you about pulse surveys and how to make your own.

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The Key Features of Employee Engagement Software

Certain key features can make or break employee engagement software. Read our guide to the key features you want in your software.

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5 Powerful Ways to Recognize Your Team

Recognizing and appreciating team members' efforts is imperative to boost retention and motivation. Here are the best ways to recognize your team.

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Recognition and Praise at Work: Takes Nothing but Pays Massively

There’s something that can boost your employees’ happiness in leaps and bounds—something that requires zero investment on your part, unlike the standard monetary benefits and gifts—showing appreciation!

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Struggling To Find A Fair Basis For Promotion Decisions? Here's What You Need

Disengagement grows among your people when raises and promotions are rejected without proper rationale. Unfair promotion systems like these are one of the key contributing factors due to which more than a third of workers today are actively searching for a new job.

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Engagement vs. Thriving: Are Your HR Practices Perfunctory or Actually Effective?

How many times have engagement scores really made a difference outside of your EOY reports and presentations? What does this say about the utilization of engagement scores as an independent indicator of job satisfaction? And what should you add to the equation for a better assessment?

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Peer Recognition: Overlooked, But Priceless in Retaining Top Talent

As social beings, we have an innate need to seek acceptance and appreciation from our community. At work, our peers constitute this community. So how does peer recognition affect employee happiness and what happens in its absence?

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The Unforeseen Consequences of Gender Bias in Performance Reviews

It’s easy to make empty PR statements like "That doesn't happen here" or "We heavily prioritize diversity and inclusion." However, the truth is, the extent of gender bias in performance management is often much more profound and insidious than most of us realize.

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Why HR Leaders Must Embrace Radical Transparency

People value communication. It builds trust and loyalty. In a transparent environment, ideas are shared freely, creativity flourishes, and individuals feel empowered to bring their best selves to the workplace. But what happens in its absence? What happens in an environment of secrecy?

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Gen Z is Feeling Disengaged at Work. Here’s What You Can Do About It

Gen Z and millennial workers are more willing to walk away from their jobs than any other generation. But why is this the case? Hint: It's not that organizations are getting worse.

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The Era of Traumatizing Your Knowledge Workers Needs To Die Now

Employees are no longer willing to put up with insensitive bosses and toxic work environments, and the power dynamic is shifting in their favor. Are you ready to join the movement for a more accountable and equitable workplace culture?

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Psychological Safety: Why Good Leaders Must Make Reports Feel Safe

Drawing from our natural inclination, modern workplaces have embraced the idea of a communal sense of belonging, creating an environment that cultivates trust and collaboration toward achieving shared goals. However, when trust is violated, it can have dire consequences.

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The Cost of Frustrated Employees

While most managers and business leaders understand and acknowledge frustration in employees and its consequences, they mistakenly perceive it as less of a threat than the more popular foe—disengagement. However, what most fail to understand is that frustration is the first landmark on the path to disengagement. And failing to identify and rectify it on time can have severe consequences.

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Building Intentional Culture Is The Only Way To Keep It Sustainable

There’s so much hype around “company culture”. It’s a popular buzzword thrown around as a solution to a plethora of corporate issues. But if building a better culture is the unifying solution to all your organizational problems, why hasn’t anyone figured it out by now? Why do these corporate maladies continue to plague most businesses? Clearly, we’re getting something wrong about culture.

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How to Lose Your Star Employee in 30 Days

Losing stellar employees is an art, not a science. It takes skill, dedication, and a complete disregard for basic human decency. With these tips, you'll be well on your way to creating a workplace so toxic it’ll make Chernobyl look like a petting zoo.

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