Ripple Analytics Inc.

04/22/2026

Hello. Quick comment/question:

Identifying, recognizing and celebrating your organization's engaged employees is critical to overall success and strengthening culture. What steps are you taking to show appreciation for your engaged people?

Ripple can help! Let’s start a conversation. Message me to connect!

02/25/2026

Ripple has been preaching for years that the annual review is ineffective and just plain broken. As Cheryl Winokur Munk recently wrote on www.lifeannuityspecialist.com, more timely and on-going feedback could be the answer!! Of course it is! Over here at Ripple, we are all about feedback!

Read the full article at: https://bit.ly/LifeAnnuitySpecialistReviewingTheAnnualReview

If you want to use a tool to gather and utilize meaningful employee feedback, let us help!

Email me: [email protected]

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02/20/2026

Friday food for thought:

Engagement drives performance, strengthens culture, and turns everyday work into meaningful, sustainable success.

Want to confirm levels of employee engagement? Ripple Analytics, Inc can help! Contact me for more information - [email protected]

02/10/2026

A little food for thought on this cold Tuesday evening. Winter workplace stress often spikes around three things:

· heavier workloads from year-end deadlines in 2025
· financial pressure from debt resulting from holidays and heating costs
· seasonal fatigue from shorter days

Leaders who acknowledge these realities can offer security, clarity and support when employees need it most.

Do you know how your people are feeling? Why not ask them?

01/13/2026

Strong and sustainable company culture doesn’t happen by accident.

There are three relatively easy ways to strengthen culture:

1. Build continuous feedback loops, not 20-minute annual reviews;

2. Recognize contributions and successes of your people in real time, publicly and as often as possible; and

3. Create psychological safety by providing assurances employees will be heard.

Culture grows when feedback flows.

Want to strengthen your organizational culture? Ripple Analytics, Inc can help! Contact me to start the conversation!

www.ripplefeedback.com

  Ripple Schedule a Demo     Improving employee engagement and self-awareness through anonymous, authentic, and timely feedback from co-workers. Perception is reality. You can’t change what you don’t know. Ripple™ allows individuals to quickly give and receive anonymous feedback from their ...

01/06/2026

Food for thought as we start the new year: Leaders shouldn’t fear data and feedback. Genuine data and feedback reveal blind spots, guide better decisions, build trust and strengthen performance when acted on intentionally.

Want to gather feedback and objective data about your people?

Ripple Analytics, Inc can help! Email me at [email protected] and we can start the discussion!

12/24/2025

Just remember: end-of-the-year appreciation strengthens morale, recognizes contributions, builds trust, and motivates future success.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2026!

12/10/2025

Annual reviews repeatedly fail because they’re infrequent, backward-looking, and disconnected from timely/actionable events. The result… your good people feel underappreciated while managers scramble to recall meaningful contributions.

Why are annual reviews unproductive? Reasons include:

- Feedback arrives too late to be useful

- Recency bias overshadows big picture

- Anxiety over the past instead of current/future employee development

Ripple Analytics, Inc can help! Continuous feedback beats annual discussions every time!! Send me an email to start the conversation: [email protected]

11/18/2025

Employers fixate on disengaged employees because disengagement is costly - amounting to $500B+ in annual domestic losses, turnover risk, and cultural drag. However, Gallup’s data over 25 years shows a remarkably stable (yet somewhat disturbing) pattern. Namely, roughly one-third of your employees are engaged while a staggering two-thirds are not. But chasing the chronically disengaged rarely, if ever, moves the needle.

The real danger?

Overinvesting in the disengaged while neglecting the people who ARE performing. When engaged employees feel underappreciated or invisible, they leave.

Dynamic leaders need to rebalance their focus to support their best people, recognize the contributors, and reinforce/replicate what is working. (And doing away with what doesn’t.)

How are you identifying/confirming who your engaged employees are? What are you doing to celebrate and acknowledge them?

Ripple can help. Email me at [email protected] to learn more!

10/01/2025

Engagement is vital in today’s workplace, especially for Millennials and Gen Z, who value purpose, flexibility, and growth. An engaged workforce drives innovation, collaboration, and loyalty while reducing turnover. By fostering connection, recognition, and meaningful work, organizations unlock the full potential of younger employees, ensuring long-term success and adaptability.

Are your most important resources (hint: your people) engaged? How is the culture at your organization? Want to find out? Ripple Analytics Inc. can help! Email me at [email protected] to start the discussion.

07/31/2025

Engagement is vital for organizational health, as it directly impacts productivity, morale, and retention. Engaged employees are more committed, take ownership of their work, and contribute positively to workplace culture. This leads to higher performance, innovation and customer satisfaction.

By contrast, a disengaged workforce often results in absenteeism, low motivation, and high turnover - all of which can harm overall efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Engaged employees foster trust and open communication - enabling faster problem-solving and better alignment with organizational goals. By prioritizing employee engagement through recognition, development opportunities, and effective leadership, organizations create resilient, adaptive environments that thrive in a competitive, constantly evolving landscape.

Are your employees engaged? Want to find out? Let us help. visit www.ripplefeedback.com or email me at [email protected]

  Ripple Schedule a Demo     Improving employee engagement and self-awareness through anonymous, authentic, and timely feedback from co-workers. Perception is reality. You can’t change what you don’t know. Ripple™ allows individuals to quickly give and receive anonymous feedback from their ...