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If your business is anything like most businesses, a potentially inexhaustible source of workplace ideas and innovation lies untapped right under your nose. That innovation source is your employees. However, if your business is, again, anything like most businesses, a lack of employee engagement is most likely preventing you from leveraging that source.

Engaged employees are enthusiastic about their work and take the initiative in their job responsibilities; they’re also more likely to take positive action to further their employer’s reputation. 

Unfortunately, the global level of employee engagement is dismally low – according to Gallup’s 2012 State of the Global Workplace study, 84% of Canadian employees are NOT engaged in their work.

Once you choose the culture you want to cultivate in your company, the fastest way to make it a reality is to engage your employees in its creation. If you read recent Gallup studies, however, using employee engagement to nurture a company culture is not something many companies are doing.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.

Data re-entry is a major problem. While the term is self-explanatory - data that was previously entered being entered again – the issue itself is far more complex. In addition to being inefficient and time-consuming, data re-entry is very error-prone, which puts you in the dangerous position of making poor decisions due to inaccurate or incomplete data.

The most important part of implementing new software is doing so without interrupting workflow. You can't avoid downtime while you make the transition, of course, but how do you avoid losing additional working hours during the process?

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in January 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.

Even if your company’s time and energy are divided between numerous operational needs in numerous locations, the maintenance of your rental equipment is crucial for overall efficiency and productivity. It can be a daunting task, yes, but a necessary one, because rental equipment is such an important money-making venture for your business.

There is a myriad of reasons you might choose to use rental equipment:

Many companies face problems with their reporting, such as when their expense reporting is part of their accounting. Separating the data for reports is time consuming and can eat up staff hours quickly. One way to combat the extra time and money is to streamline your reporting system.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in February 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy and comprehensiveness.

You shouldn’t use Excel for accounting.

What do Canada’s most successful businesses do differently than the less successful businesses? Why do even successful businesses run into financial difficulties that, if unresolved, can lead to failure?