How Do You Avoid a First Week Failure? Try These Four Straightforward Steps
You finally found someone to fill that vacant position at your community. Congratulations! But don’t relax just yet. Unless you want to be replacing that new hire again in 60 to 90 days, your work is just beginning. According to Gallup research, about a third of new employees don’t even last 90-days on the job. […]
6 Tips for Running the Perfect Virtual Staff Meeting
You may be working remotely these days, but that doesn’t mean your staff meetings should be canceled. In fact, when teams are separated it becomes more important than ever to meet in order to maintain connection. But meetings via video conference are…well, different. Awkward, even. They don’t have to be. To help you make the […]
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
I think we’re all in agreement that 2020 was the worst. In spite of all that this terrible, no good, very bad year served up, there were some bright spots. Ever the optimists, at Swift Bunny we’re sending the worst year in history off by taking a look back at some of our best moments […]
Attending APTvirtual? Here’s How to Make the Most of It
My coworkers and I are gearing up to participate in the National Apartment Association’s first-ever virtual education conference and expo, APTvirtual, and I can’t WAIT. Honestly, one of my favorite parts of my professional life is attending conferences like NAA, and I’ve been missing these events desperately: the inspiring educational sessions, the networking with multifamily […]
Practical Ways Multifamily Managers Can Reduce Bias in the Workplace
Workplace bias occurs when someone makes assumptions about another person’s character, intelligence, or capabilities based on how they look, speak, or behave. It causes some members of the workforce to be unfairly excluded from experiences and opportunities for which they are qualified. The most common type of bias in the workplace is implicit, or unconscious. Most individuals don’t set out to treat […]
Apartment Onsite Teams are Essential! Let’s Honor Them Together
We’ve always known that apartment community employees were essential…but since mid-March of this year, that word has taken on a whole new meaning. Frontline apartment community teams are working harder than ever, under incredibly challenging circumstances, to support stressed-out residents. Community teams are faced with a lot of new and stressful challenges. For example: Many […]
5 Ways to Be Happier at Work
Dreaming about a more satisfying job? Create it I vividly remember a conversation I had with my dad the summer of my junior year in high school, which I spent working the counter of the local cream shop to sock away money for college. As I complained about the more unpleasant tasks that were a […]
Don’t Let Your Best Multifamily Employees Slip Away
Combat Sky-High Employee Turnover with Four No-Nonsense Strategies Escalating employee turnover is one of the biggest challenges facing multifamily supervisors today. It can seem as if your best employees are always the first to depart. Why is that? Sure, it’s easy for the most qualified individuals to find other, more attractive opportunities; that makes perfect […]
No Workaholics at the Top: How to Model a Healthy Work/Life Balance for your Multifamily Team
If you’re like most multifamily leaders, you’re passionate about what you do. Chances are good the lines between your work life and your personal life are blurred as your passion for excellence can lead you to put in extra hours and effort. That’s OK; in fact, it can be great. After all, there’s nothing wrong […]
The Secret Formula to Employee Engagement
Building a Multifamily Company Culture of Exceptional Performance, High Job Satisfaction, and Low Employee Turnover The terms employee engagement and workplace culture get thrown around a lot, and there’s some confusion about what they both mean. They’re often used interchangeably, as if they mean the same thing. They don’t. Here’s the difference. Workplace culture is […]
