The Great Workplace Toolbox

Welcome to the Great Workplace Toolbox! This interactive set of guidelines provides ideas on how to enhance your organization's ability to attract and retain top performers. Not only is this tookit ideal for any organization interested in developing a better workplace, but it is also a great tool for organizations that have already been recognized as great places to work through awards from groups such as NorthCoast 99 or Fortune Magazine.

This will get you thinking!
The toolbox is full of ideas, examples, and exercises that will stimulate your thinking about developing, maintaining and enhancing a great workplace for top performers.  It is designed to encourage you to look at what you're doing today, how it fits into the context of our current and future workplaces, and how you can begin to pinpoint areas in which changes need to occur.

How the Toolbox works:
Just click on a topic below and you will find a full spectrum of frequently updated information that will help you attract, retain, and motivate the best!

• Getting Started
  • Rethink the Corporate Mission and Philosophy
• Define Top Talent
  
  
Communication
• Employee Feedback
  
  
• Flexibility
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Paid Time Off Policies
    
    
• Health and Wellness
• Healthy Choices - What's Cooking in Your Kitchen?
  
  
• Orientation
  • Probationary Periods
    
    
• Recruiting and Selection
  • Employee Referrals
  • Online Career Centers
    
    
• Rewards and Recognition
  • Peer Recognition
  • Service Awards
    
    
• Training and Development
  • The Training Department