Feedback Mastery for Managers: Building Stronger, More Productive Teams

Feedback is crucial for identifying company goals and managing company progress. Effective feedback must be intentional, constructive, and engaging. When you know effective techniques, you can improve the feedback process with your team to help them become more productive. What Are the Elements of Effective Feedback? Feedback is a process of evaluating, discussing, and organizing […]

Exit Interviews: Leveraging Insights to Address and Prevent Employee Turnover

Exit Interviews: Leveraging Insights to Address and Prevent Employee Turnover - Wood Personnel Services

For most organizations, employee turnover is an inevitable reality. Losing your top talent can cost your organization a significant loss of institutional knowledge and skill. An effective way to understand your organization’s strengths and weaknesses is through exit interviews. The data from these interviews can help you know your employees’ needs and hopefully help you […]

How Much is Consistent Turnover Costing Your Staff?

Improving Employee Well Being Holiday Season

Good employees can be hard to find these days, so it’s important hold onto the ones you already have. This is also true because employee turnover can impact more than you may realize. When employees leave, it also has a big influence on the remaining staff—and the more people they see exiting, the worse it […]

Is your company culture featured in your employer brand? It should be!

Employee Career Path Planning | Wood Personnel

Have you taken the time to build an attractive company culture? If you can answer yes, and you have a clear understanding of what your culture is all about—it’s time to tell the world! By showcasing your culture and what it’s like to work for you, it will be easier to attract candidates whose values […]

Respect at Work: Are you earning it or losing it?

  “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” –Confucius “Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” –Eldridge Cleaver You can’t gain respect by reading quotes like these. You can’t buy your team’s respect. You can’t have it handed to you on a silver platter from an outgoing leader. […]

Wood Personnel’s “Best of 2015”: 6 posts you need to read

Hard to believe another year is nearly “in the books!” Looking back, 2014 has been a year of amazing challenges and opportunities. Along the way, Wood Personnel has regularly updated our blog to help you make the most of our current economic and employment market conditions. Our goal? To make finding great people, and running […]