We've recently added even more information to the site for those of you interested in learning how to make your company An Even Better Place to Work. Now, you can download a PDF document detailing the An Even Better Place to Work program. Feel free to print the document for distribution among company decision makers toward facilitating incorporation of the program. We've also added a brief PowerPoint presentation further highlighting the program process, rationale, and benefits. A personal message about the An Even Better Place to Work program from Jeff Campbell, President of High Performance Employees,
I feel that this is absolutely THE best product on the market today for evaluating your teams and individuals and for showing you the information you need to know to make a good team GREAT. Just look at what it tracks automatically for you:

• Satisfaction @ Work Diagnostic
• Openness @ Work Diagnostic
• Feedback @ Work Diagnostic
• Motivation @ Work Diagnostic
• Difference Management @ Work Diagnostic
• Ownership @ Work Diagnostic
• Conflict @ Work Diagnostic

With all this new information coming your way your teams cannot help but improve dramatically across the board. I am confident you will love the results the program provides and am willing to risk my own money on it by offeringa free trial. We will help you with everything that is required to get you started. If, after the trial, you decide that you like the program we'll be more than happy to help you implement it at on a permanent basis. If you decide that you don't like it then you have lost absolutely nothing. Take a moment to contact us for your free trial. I know you will be delighted with the results. -Jeff Campbell Contact us now to learn more about how to make your company a great place to work!

"Rome wasn't built in a day. A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. One day at a time. These wise sayings and many more like them are exactly what we need to be thinking about when we start to get overwhelmed by our goals and how much it will take to achieve them. Break your goals down into daily and even hourly chunks. Don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed. Always ask yourself 'What one thing can I do right now to progress towards my goal?' It doesn't have to be a big move, just anything that you can actually do. 'A man who does not possess a map of where he wants to go ends up being a Wandering Generality.'" A brief excerpt from one of our most popular programs: 'Goalsetting.' To learn more about this and other programs offered by High Performance Employees, just click here!

Discovered by our very own director, Jeff Campbell: Now, of course this isn't our philosophy on how to handle office conflict...but it's a fun little piece. A little bit about what's behind conflict and what you can really do to address it, from one of our workshops:
"We don't have conflict because we're different. Don't blame 'because we're different' for conflict. That's not why. We have conflict when I don't feel you're trying to understand me, when I don't sense you're willing to meet my needs. Those are two of the real key factors in terms of conflict... If you're looking to add value, grow your business, get your customers locked in to you, feeling good about you - that's it! Getting people smiling when they hear your voice they got a sense from you, 'Hey, you understand me and you're willing to meet my needs!' They're the two key factors, no matter how different we might be. So, in terms of significant relationships in your life, these are magic questions: 'How much do you feel I understand you?' Ask that of the people around you. And of course the second would be, 'How much do you feel I'm willing to meet your needs?' And if those scores are low, ask the next magic question, 'What do I need to be doing so that you felt I understood you even more, or that I was more willing to meet your needs?'" *We're always on the lookout for images of office conflict expressed in a funny or otherwise interesting way, so if you've run across something you'd like to submit, please let us know! (Refresh the page to play the clip again.)

If this is the kind of paperwork your employees are processing - and according to recent statistics upwards of 20 percent of them are actively looking for someplace other than their current workplace to build a career - what can you do about it? How do you keep that 20+ percent from turning over and looking for workplace satisfaction elsewhere? High Performance Employees has created various programs to help you address just this issue. By following the tenets laid out and taught in our workshops you and your employees can learn to have not just 'good' working relationships, but GREAT ones - and in doing so, you will be ensuring the future positions of those very employees you've already spent time, energy, and money on to train. From one of our recent workshops: "Seventy percent of the people leave jobs because of 'relationship issues.' And most of those are relationships with their immediate supervisor. That's a real critical relationship. Twenty-five percent of a manager's time is lost on unnecessary conflict. In my experience, when I run the Winning Relationships program at organizations that's a conservative figure. In my experience, working with people like yourselves, it's much much higher. All I'm trying to suggest is - you want differences, you don't want conflict. Conflict doesn't make good business sense. You're losing time. You're generating stress. The stuff that was being talked about this morning in terms of improving efficiency and all of that - look at the time that's lost. And it was really interesting this afternoon - about communication issues coming up. And that's all about relationships. You know, to grow your business, grow relationships...It's not just a soft issue, or, rather it is a soft issue - but the soft issues are often harder than the hard issues..." Listen to live samples from our workshop events here and when you're ready to take a first step toward reversing that 20+ percent loss, toward maintaining a happy atmosphere in the workplace, toward listening your employees into harmony and satisfaction in your place of business (and affecting your financial bottom line in a positive way in the process!) you can sign up for the free Corporate Ombudsman service, learn more about High Performance Employees' A Great Place to Work system, or check out our extensive list of workshops and workshopping options. High Performance Employees is poised to help you grow your people, so why not take advantage of what we have to offer - and ensure that those you value most in the office aren't actually on their way out the door. Image courtesy: PostSecret.

Now you can stay connected to the High Performance Employees website via your email inbox! Just use the 'Get Connected!' signup form on any of the main website pages to enter your email and receive a copy of our monthly newsletter. The newsletter will be targeted to business owners with working relationships as the main focus; including tips and highlights from the High Performance Employees workshops, event information, new site feature announcements, targeted news articles, and personal messages from the Director of HPE, Jeff Campbell. Also included will be helpful business tips ranging from maintaining high morale in the workplace to how to decrease turnover rates at your company. Get connected! Sign up now! Our first issue is expected to make it's debut in early August. Archived newsletters will also be available on the website, in our News Room.