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Workplace Culture is Affecting Employee Retention

Would you rather make your ideal wage, but work in an awful work culture? Or, make less money but be a part of a better work environment? According to recent studies workplace culture is affecting employee retention. It makes sense considering employee productivity is derived from employee happiness. A workplace that is exhausting to please, will hurt both its employees and the organization. In a recent article, CNBC shares that 95% of employees would be more likely to stay with a compan

Emily Rice

Mar 20, 2019•1 min read

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Inspiring One Another

One of my employees shared with me a new idea. It was a better way to do a task within our company. The only problem, they don't know if they should share it with the team. I asked this person why. Why they didn’t want to share this with the people who needed to know this. It was a great idea and I felt that they should be informed so that we can do things better. This employee said that they were worried that if they shared this idea, that other people would be upset with them. I

Mike Kaeding

Mar 18, 2019•1 min read

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Encouraging Disagreement

Monday morning, I came into work and the first thing I heard was, Mike can I talk to you? One of my employees was worried about one of our initiatives. See, we are in the midst of providing internet to our residents. Internet that is hooked up, fast, and available the moment they move in. It was a pain-point where we recognized that we can do this better. But there are a lot of complications with doing this and doing this well. Turns out another employee felt the same way. They too wante

Mike Kaeding

Mar 15, 2019•2 min read

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Professional Openness

At the core, business is about doing a lot of little things right over time. It’s not a satisfying answer, but that’s the truth. Looking at the success of a business from the outside looks easy, right? It’s as if these big businesses are overnight success stories. No body shares the news of unexpected problems, pain points, or corporate losses - they only share the success. Let me share one key element with you that is a relatively new learning for me but can be applied not only to bus

Mike Kaeding

Mar 14, 2019•2 min read

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An Efficiency Apartment

For some, a one-bedroom apartment was just too big. Now, prospective residents will have a variety of options, floor plans, and apartment sizes to meet the needs of their preferred lifestyle. By the summer of 2020, Norhart will offer efficiency apartments. So, what is an efficiency apartment? An efficiency apartment is an apartment without a separated bedroom. Efficiency apartments have an open concept design that combines the sleeping and social space into one area. Efficiency apar

Emily Rice

Mar 13, 2019•1 min read

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Responding to the Mistakes

You could say that people notice positive works, moments of success. But that they choose to fixate on the negative, moments of failure. This idea can be explained in a story, a story that some will recognize: "One day a school teacher wrote the following, 9×1=7 9×2=18 9×3=27 9×4=36 9×5=45 9×6=54 9×7=63 9×8=72 9×9=81 9×10=90 When she was done, she looked to the students and they were all laughing at her, because of the first equation which was wrong, and then the teacher said

Emily Rice

Mar 11, 2019•1 min read

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Success is Success No Matter the Size

Success can be hard to define. You have your idea of success, I have my idea of success, and everyone else has theirs - let alone society’s. What if we thought of success as the feeling of happiness after accomplishing something? Ultimately that is what we’re doing; We’re accomplishing something. No matter how big or small of an achievement, if you’ve succeeded, you’ve succeeded. It's something to celebrate. Except, that's not always what happens. After completing something great,

Emily Rice

Mar 8, 2019•1 min read

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Apartment Wish List

Before you set out to hunt for an apartment, think through what your must-haves and your would like-to-haves are. When you know these things ahead of time, it’ll be easier to tell whether a place fits into your lifestyle, or not. Without doing so, your priorities might shift, and areas of your life might get missed. It’s best to go in with an idea of what you want from an apartment than to be convinced otherwise from a property owner and be stuck in a lease that you regret. Unfortunately, th

Emily Rice

Mar 7, 2019•4 min read