Is your office calendar starting to fill up as the New Year is under way? Unfortunately the busier we get, the easier it is to forego events around the work place. If you’re involved in event planning for your company, it is most likely with an end goal of gaining employee engagement and building a positive energy within the walls of your workplace…

It seems difficult to think that you could truly celebrate every person in your organization in 2016, but you can! There are two reasons every single employee will deserve to be celebrated in the coming year: their birthday and their work anniversary.

If you stay up to date on our blog, you know we love to celebrate and have fun here at the ‘ville. Our managers are always doing fun stuff around here for their staff and we wanted to share those with you. Hopefully you'll get some great new ideas to reward your staff members this year! Read on to check out what our fabulous manager, Melissa, did just recently for one her awesome employees...

Some people just don’t know how to give positive employee feedback. They want to give positive employee feedback, but they go “blank” when trying to be clever, witty or uplifting. The following is a sample list of possible short, positive employee feedback messages that could be handwritten or spoken. Tailor your own personal message to suit the people and performance goals in your organization.

Oh, feedback. Sometimes we ask for it, because we need to be convinced that our fanny does not look big in this skirt, even though it kind of does. And, sometimes we don't ask for it, but get it, and think: who asked you, anyway?!

Whether you're on the giving or receiving end of providing feedback—we're talking about negative feedback, here, by the way—it's not an easy place to be. If you're the giver, you can make it better for everyone by avoiding these feedback pitfalls.