Case Studies
Expert source for navigating the challenges and opportunities of remote leadership.
We interviewed 200+ managers and summed up our key learnings in a 25-page report.
We're thrilled to kick off the next chapter of Kona's story. To everyone in our five-year journey that took a bet on this small but mighty team, thank you. We wouldn’t be here without you.
Slack fatigue causes employees to disengage or feel burnt out. Here’s why Slack fatigue happens and the best ways to proactively prevent it in your organisation.
Everyone’s talking about quiet quitting, but it’s been around forever. Learn how you can prevent quiet quitting through foster employee engagement.
The best way to generate employee engagement and connection is to create psychological safety. Here’s how you do it in one minute per day with Kona’s daily check-ins.
Remote work has been a growing trend for decades, but the pandemic has accelerated it's popularity. Check out there remote work statistics to better understand your team.
Employee engagement efforts aren’t all equal. Learn about the top employee engagement drivers so you can prioritize your efforts and create a happy workforce.
Don’t let budget be why your remote team disengages. These inexpensive employee engagement ideas will help you improve engagement and prevent turnover.
The secret to retaining employees is to prioritize a different metric: employee engagement. Learn why focusing on engagement will increase your employee retention.
Employee engagement apps can supercharge your efforts to build a great workplace. These are the best engagement apps for you to consider in 2022.
An employee engagement survey only helps if you set and achieve relevant employee engagement goals. This clear guide with examples will help you get started.
At Kona we’re excited to share that we’ve raised $4M in seed funding to help remote companies stay on top of employee wellbeing.
Fostering team wellbeing starts with asking great questions. Use these 40 employee wellbeing survey questions to understand your employees’ wellbeing needs.
Employee satisfaction brings huge business benefits. Here’s why it matters for your business and five ways managers can improve employee satisfaction. 5 Sure-fire Ways Managers Can Improve Employee Satisfaction With The Feedback Process Whether you
This step-by-step breakdown shows you how to calculate your employee engagement score and understand what it means for your business.
Training managers remotely comes with a unique set of challenges. Here's what we learned from interviewing 350 remote managers.
Employee engagement surveys only work when you take action. These six steps will help you make the most of your employee feedback and improve engagement.
These seven employee feedback tools are empowering people-first managers to understand their employees and act on feedback before it's too late.
Choosing employee wellness software for your organization can be hard. We curated 10 of the best employee wellness tools for you to consider in 2022.
Discover how employee engagement stats prove that caring for your team’s engagement is not just good for employees—it’s also good for your business.
Picking employee engagement software as an HR leader can be tough. Here’s a list of the 10 best employee engagement tools for your company in 2022.
Remote leaders are experiencing burnout and some leaders don't have the resources to support their team's mental health. We dive into the hard-hitting data and what it means for remote tech companies.
Investing in employee wellbeing brings huge benefits, from improved productivity to customer loyalty and employee retention.
Building a remote learning and development program requires some key shifts. Learn how to set your remote L&D program up for success.
Everyone's definition of employee well-being is unique. Consider these twelve employee well-being initiatives to find one that fits your team and workplace needs.
Looking to build an employee well-being program? Check out our five tips and get inspired with some real-life examples.
Introducing new technology into the workplace doesn’t have to be scary. Follow these strategic steps to increase your odds of successful implementation.
Employee engagement surveys are a key way to build an engaged and productive team. Ask these 25 engagement survey questions to assess and improve your company initiatives.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Check out actionable ways that employers can recognize and celebrate mental health during this important time.
These companies are breaking the mental health stigma in the workplace. Find out what companies are doing for their employee's mental health straight from top leaders.
These mental health resources for work include everything you need to prioritize mental health in your organization, from training to tools to treatment.
Anonymous versus attributed employee feedback surveys can oftentimes deliver very different insights. Learn the pros and cons of each.
Feedback is powerful for reflection and growth but only if you know how to give it. Here are nine tips for managers on how to give effective feedback.
Engaged employees perform better. The best HR teams measure these six metrics to understand and improve employee engagement.
A mentally healthy workforce is more productive. Learn why every business should invest in their employees’ mental health (and how to get started).
Employees will always care about pay, but studies show that company culture matters more. Here are actionable ways to improve your workplace culture
A big challenge for remote work is building genuine connections and camaraderie. Here are 20 remote team-building activities that can help.
Employee engagement needs to be intentional, especially in a remote environment. Here are employee engagement programs you can use to benefit your employees and business.
It's important to give effective performance reviews to your employees to improve employee morale, productivity, and growth. Here's how to lead an effective review as a first-time remote manager.
Company culture and employee engagement determine whether your employees will stay motivated and loyal to your company. Here's how the two are connected.
Burnout is serious and can’t be fixed overnight. Use these seven steps to help employees overcome burnout and rediscover their drive and sense of purpose.
Delegating is hard, but get it right and it’s like a super power. These five tips will help every engineering manager delegate more effectively.
Going from engineer to engineering manager means focusing less on code and more on supporting others. Here's a six-step guide on how to be a good engineering manager.
More people are experiencing burnout than ever before. The costs are huge. Learn how to measure burnout at your remote organization and how to tackle it.
Workplace burnout can shake an organization at its core. Learn what the five stages are burnout are and how you can reverse them.
Engineering silos can lead to loss of productivity, lower morale, and lack of ability to achieve your mission. Here's how to break them and build a successful engineering department.
Emotionally healthy employees perform better and are less likely to quit. Support your team's emotional wellness at work with these seven tips.
A great sales onboarding process instills confidence in your new hire and builds momentum for future success. Here are six tips for how to create your own.
Motivate your sales team with these six proven ways to drive results (without burnout). Learn how to create a psychologically safe environment, hold impactful one-on-ones, and more.
Turnover in sales teams happens, but too much of it can cripple profitability and team morale. Here are six strategies to prevent salesperson turnover.
Team burnout is damaging to morale and productivity, but it’s avoidable if you know what to look for and how to prevent it.
Learn how to train a confident remote customer success team that ensures a positive customer experience every time.
Explore easy and highly-engaging remote customer success team-building ideas that will help your team build alignment and trust, and have fun while doing it.
Experts weigh in on human resource (HR) OKR examples that you can personalize to track and measure your organization’s goals.
Eliciting employee feedback is crucial for organizations to succeed. We dive into how to gather feedback through surveys, trust, and leadership practices.
Employee wellbeing is at the center of how HR departments make decisions. We dive into how to incorporate wellbeing into your OKRs in 2022 and become an organization that notably puts its people first.
We dive into the argument for and against hybrid remote work by tapping experts in the industry. Determine if remote, hybrid, or office is right for your business.
Creating a psychologically safe work environment will set your remote team up for success. Find out exactly how to do that with real-world examples.
Learn everything you need to know about performance management, including how to hold performance reviews, how to improve learning and development, and more.
Boost employee morale, improve psychological safety, act on burnout, and measure culture with these workplace culture assessment tools.
There are many challenges that pop up with ineffective training. Consider custom e-learning courses for the benefit of employees and your company overall.
Shawna Curran discusses the importance of gratitude, setting boundaries for work-life harmony, and the art of caring for your people.
A gratitude practice can help with mental health, burnout, and isolation. Show thanks in your remote team culture with these tips.
In this week's Remote Manager Roundtable, Matthew Cooke answered questions about self-care, maintaining alignment with growth, and micromanagement.
This week we spoke to Gensan, an Engineering Manager at The Athletic. He discusses how to navigate a packed calendar, the importance of listening, and some amazing remote work tips.
A record 4 million Americans have quit their jobs in April 2021. Here's the ultimate guide on what managers need to know and what to do about it.
This week we spoke to Rhonda, Manager of Customer Support at Greenhouse. She discusses her six years of management experience, the need to build connections on a remote team, and the myth of a one-size-fits-all manager.
Today’s managers have to build trust without ever meeting face-to-face. We ask experts and research how to build psychological safety while remote.
This week we spoke to Claudia, Manager of Talent Acquisition at Terminal. She shares her best tips for work-life balance, finding time for team building, and managing a busy schedule.
The top three challenges of remote management are isolation, expectation-setting, and burnout. We share 21 tips to lead remote teams in 2021.
There's a lot of bad bosses out there. We try to break down why they're terrible, and what to do about it.
This week we spoke to Laura, Director of Product Design at Happy Money. She shares her best tips for remote management, leadership lessons from anti-racism lectures, and the importance of balance.
Burnout is the biggest threat to remote work success. Spoiler alert: your unlimited PTO policy won't fix it. Here are three solutions that will.
Onboarding is the first impression a remote teammate gets for your team, culture, and processes. Set new employees up for success with these tips.
Like any office, Slack traditions help build remote team culture. Supercharge your virtual office with these six Slack apps.
Employee pulse surveys aren't just for HR. The best remote managers use them for iterating on team culture and blockers. We share a few templates for writing better pulse surveys.
Remote workers are facing a mental health crisis. We created a culture checklist to empower leaders to support wellness and reduce stigma.
We asked 200 fully-remote companies how they use their Slack for remote work. These best practices stood out.
Relationship building isn’t the same when you’re fully-remote. Remote teams need to be deliberate. We compiled three strategies that actually work.
When it comes to remote management, soft skills can be more important than hard skills. We break down the key factors defining a manager's success.
Zoom fatigue is an unfortunate reality of remote work. We’ve compiled three solutions to tackle this issue without jeopardizing your workflow.
We talked with Dan Symonds, VP for Flyt.io, about his 20-year career and the role EQ has played in his remote leadership style.
Company culture creates connections for vastly distributed teams. Across 200+ companies, we looked at what the best remote cultures have in common.
We interview Shane Emmons, CTO of TeamSnap, about his decade of remote management experience and how he builds trust in his team.
If you haven't read our "EQ & Remote Managers 2020 Report" here's a quick TL;DR: the biggest challenge for remote managers right now isn't Zoom fatigue.
We talked to managers from 550+ fully-remote companies about company culture. These are what the most successful companies had in common.
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