Steve VerBurg

Engaging participants in meetings is tougher than ever with many businesses allowing or forced to move more employees to work remotely. In the blog “Remote Meeting Engagement: Pre-Meeting Strategies,” we discussed ineffective meetings are costing over $70 billion per year to US businesses. Likewise, we dove into pre-meeting strategies to engage meeting participants and raise […]

In 2019, studies indicated that there were as many as 56 million meetings per day. The biggest problem: managers ranked meetings as number 1 on the list of time wasters. These unproductive meetings cost over $70 billion to the US economy per year. With the 2020 pandemic, ineffective meetings are even more problematic as teams

The importance of employee engagement was discussed in the blog “Driving Remote Employee Engagement”. Remote employee engagement has been pushed forward as a priority for many organizations as the “new business reality” looks like many employees are going to continue to work virtually from home, and offices will see a major reduction in the number

Military leaders, government officials, and even ancient business owners have been trying to motivate people for thousands of years. In the previous two blogs “Driving Remote Employee Engagement” and “Driving Remote Employee Engagement: Know Your Employees,” we discussed the importance of Employee Engagement and how getting to know your remote employees drives motivation and increases

In my last blog “Driving Remote Employee Engagement”, we discussed how over the last few months the business reality for many organizations has shifted from a live office environment to a remote office environment. This shift has made employee engagement of virtual employees critical as they can become easily distracted and disengaged. These employees may