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Dallan Guzinski

Ownership Culture Insights: Beyond Corporate Engagement

At the NCEO’s Fall ESOP Forum in 2019, I met with a manufacturing company that was concerned about engaging its shop floor employees more effectively in the culture of ownership it was trying to build. They were concerned that their employees working in their corporate offices had more opportunities for learning and more all-around engagement in the business and employee ownership. When their employees took the NCEO's Ownership Culture Survey later that fall, the feedback we collected confirmed their suspicions. Employees in other departments responded 20% less positively than those closer to corporate leadership when it came to ESOP understanding, ownership identity, decision-making, and access to business information.


Loren Rodgers

2020 Fall Forum: See the Curriculum Guide

From September 14 to 16, the 2020 Fall ESOP Forum will showcase the best resources the ESOP world has to offer for you and your company. To help you navigate which sessions will give you the answers you need, NCEO founder Corey Rosen and I have put together a curriculum guide with six tracks for a variety of roles and ESOP questions.






Dallan Guzinski

Ownership Culture Insights: Blind Spots in Information and Learning

In this new series of NCEO blog posts, I will explore interesting ownership culture insights on what the NCEO has learned over the years from companies, their stories, practices, and a wealth of survey data collected from employee-owners across the country. I will explore common challenges, best practices, and learn about what employees truly value when it comes to creating a workplace that thrives on ownership thinking.



Nancy Wiefek

Survey Data Shows Lower Turnover Among ESOPs

Our recent ESOP Topics Survey gathered data from 160 ESOP companies on how they’re handling the COVID-19 crisis and other issues, including questions about their turnover rates in 2019. The surveyed ESOP companies reported dramatically lower turnover than overall national averages.  This difference persisted at the industry level in each of the industries with enough data to make comparisons: wholesale trade, manufacturing, and construction ESOP companies had turnover rates less than half of national averages for their industry. See tables below for details (national data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)