Social | Employee Engagement

Diversity and History: A Look Back at the Roman Dodecahedron

The year was 1739, when archaeologists uncovered a strange bronze artifact from a Roman treasure trove. It was a hollow dodecahedron with round knobs at each of its corners and circles of various sizes cut into its pentagonal planes. The first discovered was dated around the 2nd or 3rd century, but since then, hundreds more […]

Employee Engagement

The Power of Virtual Team Building for Remote Teams

In the year that was 2020, many organizations ranging from small businesses to large corporations have experienced a transition towards remote work. With many teams becoming strictly virtual, the coronavirus has entirely reshaped how we collaborate, communicate, and operate. While there are many benefits of virtual teams in the workplace, ranging from cost-effectiveness to healthier […]

Employee Engagement / Uncategorized

Are your employees screaming on the inside?

Crushing Workplace Fear in 2021 What makes life at work even more stressful these days is the need to appear sane and happy when the entire world is being turned upside. One thing to keep in mind is to understand that almost everyone else feels pretty much the same way. Who hasn’t lost someone to […]

Employee Engagement

Simple Ways to Improve Conversation for 2020

If you are a manager, a parent, or any human dealing with other humans for that matter, you know that communication is key to improving relationships, getting things done and solving problems. It’s not what you say, but how you say it. A recent article in the Guardian showed ways to get someone to change […]

Employee Engagement

The Hostile Work Environment Hiding in Plain Sight

When kids are bullied at school, school officials can step in and in recent years the government has finally taken steps to prevent it in the first place. But what about you? What if it’s happening in your workplace? Are your co-workers confident to report the abuse? Do they fear their complaint will be dismissed […]

Employee Engagement

ESCAPE the Case

Competition Meets Cooperation When your the teams you manage have a chance to interact and have fun on activities (seemingly) unrelated to work, you reap the added benefits of increasing team chemistry and boosting morale and employee engagement. Effective team building programs span the range, from simple trust-building activities to corporate campouts, all on company time. The last […]

Employee Engagement / Team Building

CLICHÉS at Work: Why does there have to be a box?

When Venture Up’s 22-year-old creative director, Mason Lengyel, was in kindergarten, many of his teachers remarked how creative he was, saying, “He thinks outside the box.” This made no sense to Mason. “Why does there have to be a box?” We ran into this tired expression again today, in an article listing “40 most annoying […]