Employee Engagement
The Power of Meaningful Recognition
By Raissa Sagun, Herd Geek Imagine walking into your office on a Monday morning to find a surprise waiting at your desk. No, it’s not a big stack of papers that have to be filed or a report to be completed within the next two hours. Instead you find a small centerpiece of vibrant flowers in a [...]
What your toilet paper can tell you about yourself…
By Jingting Ma, Inclusion Sherpini During our last Leadership Certification workshop, all the participants had a chance to find out what their personality type is according to the Myers-Briggs Personality Type indicator. Everyone had to do a quick survey to answer a few situational questions about themselves, and the answer would show you the four [...]
When to fire someone at your agency
by Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd Warm up your mind with these two classic questions: If they quit, would I be upset? If I could start the hiring process again, would I still hire them? If you have spoken to them about their performance (you should have if you are thinking about firing them): [...]
How to deal with your problem employee
By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd, at Inclusion by IBEX. Gallop asked this question to eighty thousand managers: “You have a talented employee who consistently shows up late for work. What would you say to this employee?” Common answers were: I would lock them out I don’t care as long as they stay and [...]
Inclusion Holiday Party – Fun on a budget
The IBEX Herd provides the Inclusion Careware system for staff scheduling, daily pay calculations, payroll and HR to agencies providing residential supports to individuals all over Canada. This year we took a page from the books of some of our customers and figured out how to have fun on a budget. We rented our local community center, [...]
Free Employee Engagement workshop available!
By Raissa Sagun, Head of Spreading the Herd Word at Inclusion by IBEX Are you looking for new tools and techniques to improve your workplace culture or the level of employee engagement at your agency? While most people shy away from public speaking, Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd at IBEX, enjoys doing them so [...]
An Executive Director on Engaging Staff
By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd, at Inclusion by IBEX. Ever since we asked for input on the new book I am writing on engaging direct service workers, a flood of email and even a few phone calls have come back from all over Canada. People in agencies that support people with intellectual disabilities really [...]
Engaging direct service workers without more pay – Part 1
By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd at Inclusion by IBEX. I have heard it time and again. “The reason that people leave our agency or don’t do their job well is that our wages and benefits are just too low. If we had better pay and better benefits, our staffing situation would be so [...]
New book on engaging support workers
By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd at Inclusion by IBEX. Our company has worked with agencies that provide supports for people with intellectual disabilities all over Canada for many years. In the course of dealing with these agencies as a supplier of some very critical systems, we get to know many of the people [...]
Why stress over dealing with a union?
By Darryl Stewart, Head of the Herd at Inclusion by IBEX The Inclusion team at IBEX talks with agencies supporting individuals with developmental disabilities all over Canada. We often hear the phrase “we are in union negotiations”. We have come to understand that this means “leave us alone, we are super busy and highly stressed”. No one seems [...]
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