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 Burnout and Work-Related Stress Surveys

The workplace is abuzz with the concept of employee burnout. Data shows that Google searches for “burnout” more than doubled in 2021. Since then, both searches for and cases of burnout have continued to rise. Burnout is a killer of employee retention, morale, engagement, and productivity. In a perfect world, employers would

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Mentor Program Survey Best Practices and Questions

Could your leadership and development programming use a stroke of genius? Answers to questions about how to enhance your L&D initiatives might be right under your nose. A mentorship survey is an excellent way to leverage the knowledge, opinions, and ideas of your most valuable resource—your talent. Through the use

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Job Satisfaction Survey Tips and Ideas

Your organization does its best to provide its employees with satisfying jobs and great places to work. But with so many variables at play, it can be hard to “know what you don’t know” when it comes to the satisfaction of your employees. Enter: the job satisfaction survey. Like many

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Increase Engagement with Fun Employee Survey Questions

There are so many different types of employee engagement surveys—from employee satisfaction surveys to onboarding surveys, to culture surveys. Many employee surveys are designed to collect deep insights about an organization and turn those insights into actionable change. Some surveys, however, are designed for another purpose: to be fun! Yes,

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Navigating Employee Turnover: Why You’re Losing Employees

People are the heartbeat of your organization, and losing employees is a difficult reality for businesses in all industries and of all sizes. With the future of work ever-changing, it becomes more difficult to retain quality employees. As a leader, you are left scratching your head trying to figure out

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2025 Guide to Employee Pulse Surveys: Go from Buy-In to Execution and Analysis

If you’re still relying on a single annual engagement survey or eNPS survey to gauge employee satisfaction, morale, and motivation then you’re operating less efficiently than you could be. Enter the employee pulse survey. Employee pulse surveys allow you to get a more frequent and lighter-touch read on how things