Posts by Matt Koulas

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Matt Koulas

Matt has 15+ years of experience leading teams, working in companies with outstanding and innovative company culture, and operates two businesses of his own. His passion for company culture grew out of his personal experience with amazing company culture as well as the negative effects of acquisitions on culture.
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Employee Engagement Statistics for 2024

Consider it a glass-half-full situation. On one hand, you can look at the positive: 70% of employees are engaged in the best-performing companies in the U.S. About two out of every three employees feel good about their work.  But in the companies Gallup did not consider “best practice” organizations for

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Employee Retention Statistics for 2024

“I quit.” Those are the last two words you ever want to hear if you’re talking to one of your top employees. What you thought had been a great business culture wasn’t enough to keep your employees around and they’ve now got a new job. They’ve accepted a job offer

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Workplace Safety Survey Questions, Benefits, and Tips

Why a Workplace Safety Survey is the Key to Keeping Your Employees Safe When it comes to workplace safety, an organization’s fatal flaw can sometimes be that leadership simply doesn’t know what they don’t know. Employers all strive to create and maintain the safest possible work environments that they can.

Post-Survey Follow Up Actions: What to do After Your Employee Survey Runs

You’ve done the hard work of building an employee engagement survey. You’ve put together incisive questions, you’ve involved employees in the process, and now you’re getting tons of high-quality feedback. There’s just one question left: Now what? It’s one thing to know why employees are disengaged. It’s another thing to

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Guide to Running Better Employee Engagement Surveys in 2025

Picture this: it’s about 11:30 a.m. Lunch is still a little way off, and your employees’ energy is flagging. Rather than getting work done, you look up from your office. The first thing you notice? Employees aren’t working. They’re sleeping. That would obviously be a bad thing. But lack of