Entries by Mark Kamp

Using Music To Engage Your Teams & Lower Turnover

No matter what your industry, your foremost priority must be the well-being of your employees. Your bandmates.  Your employees are the backbone of your organization. Without them, products won’t get made, services won’t be rendered, and customers won’t be taken care of. Unfortunately, we live in a high-stress time, and even if the job itself […]

How to Host a Knock-Out Sales Conference

You’ve just been given the green light. Next year’s sales conference is your responsibility. You’re excited, of course. After all, you’ve attended sales conferences for years and had amazing ideas on how to improve them. However, you’re a tad bit nervous as well. You’ve got all of these ideas… but will the attendees like them? […]

9 Corporate Team Building Activities That Actually Work

You’ve hired some of the best and brightest employees in the industry. They are creative, capable, and great at working independently. Unfortunately, there’s no camaraderie in your office. Your employees are focused on getting their job done, not on helping the team—or the company as a whole—flourish. You know how important teamwork is to the […]

How to Boost Sales Team Morale and Motivation

You did your best to hire good people for your sales team. And for a while, they were excited, motivated, and producing. They’d approach you with any challenges they faced, bringing great ideas to the table, and your numbers looked amazing. Lately, though, you’ve noticed some worrisome behaviors among your staff. They wander into work […]

How to Create a Culture of Employee Engagement

You’ve always been conscious of the term “employee engagement,” but it wasn’t until you started noticing some unsettling behaviors at work that you really started to take notice. You hired rock stars… wonderful employees with high skill levels, positive attitudes, and excitement to excel. Unfortunately, they are no longer performing at the level you expect. […]

5 Communication Tips to Motivate Millennial Workers

When it comes to your employees, do you consider yourself a good communicator?  Even more importantly, do you consider yourself a good listener? If you’d like to better motivate your millennial workers, one of the key strategies is to listen to what they have to say. The millennials were not brought up in households where […]

How Do I Provide Structure to Motivate Millennial Workers?

While the latest generation of employees values freedom and inspiration, these cannot be achieved without one very important thing… structure. If you are looking to motivate millennial workers, you’ll want to create a well-structured environment for them to thrive in. It may seem counterintuitive, but there is actually quite a bit of freedom in structure. […]