David Long is a speaker, author, and the Founder and CEO of MyEmployees, a 29 year-old firm in the Top 1% of Employee Engagement Companies.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- How David went from moving back in with his parents to running a 10.5 million dollar business
- The way David uses his own company to test out what he’s going to do with his clients
- An example of how to recognize your employees in a memorable way
- The reason 70% of people leave their job
- A common disconnect between managers’ and employees’ viewpoints on the job
- How to get managers to stop thinking that money is the most important thing in a job
- What keeps employees engaged in their company and how to make them look forward to going to work
- The employee recognition reminder chart (ERC) — what it is and how to use to to help your company
- How to make sure employee recognition is authentic
- How the ERC benefits everyone — from employee to CEO
- Implementing a book club into the culture of your company
- A story about how something like book club can empower and uplift your employees
- Why it’s not true that you have to treat millennials differently
- How book club helps employees be better people, not just better employees
- Why you can’t be happy at work and miserable at home and vice versa
- The reason happy employees are more successful
- How the retail “apocalypse” has made David’s company more successful
- Strategies David has incorporated into his company to help it adapt
- How to improve communication and how it will help your business
- Benefits of paying for employees to go to conferences
- David’s best advice for handling the complexity of business today
- How to create an environment where everybody wants to be better
- Why 47% of your best people are looking to leave
Ways to contact David:
- David’s Company: starculture.com
- Employee Recognition Reminder Chart: Text “err chart” to “31996” — password: “forgetmenot”
