Share This:For many people, the new year is a time of setting resolutions, making changes, and determining new goals. For a business, these same principles apply. Each year, your company should take time to set goals to increase profitability, make changes to underperforming objectives, apply ethical and legal standards, grow[…]
Share This:Promoting good leadership skills is essential because one bad manager in your organization can make it difficult for your business in many ways. You might have higher absenteeism, increased turnover, and a difficult time recruiting. You may have heard the expression, “Employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers.” It[…]
Share This: Here are some of the best articles we found in the month of October: Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Make Your Dream a Reality It is never too early or too late to pursue an idea whose time has come. Leah and Bea Koch understand better than[…]
Share This: Your employee handbook can be the backbone for your business if it is written clearly and concisely. Employees want clear expectations now more than ever. If a handbook is well written, the employee will see that the employer is consistent and there are no surprises. Once you find[…]
Share This:According to the latest report in 2015 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 78.2 million workers are paid at an hourly rate. This is nearly 59% of our workforce today. The August 2017 unemployment rate is at 4.4%, which may make it difficult to find good, qualified employees for[…]
Share This: Performance Review is an essential part of running a business yet reviewing an employee’s performance can be something managers and employees dread the most. Why? For the manager, the conversation feels like it’s just another item on the to-do list. For employees, Jim Harter of Harvard Business Review[…]
Share This: Here are some of the best articles we found in the month of September: 3 Lessons Great Leaders Learn Only After They Fail John Brandon shares his failures and what lessons he learned from them. Brandon says: If you don’t over-communicate, you will fail. It takes hard work.[…]
Share This:Finding the perfect employee for your small business can be tricky. You don’t want to make a mistake in your hiring decisions which could negatively impact your company in a costly way. According to a CareerBuilder survey, over 60% of employers have said their businesses have been affected by[…]
Share This: I was born into a business-oriented family. My mother studied finance in school, her father studied accounting; my father studied international business and was the first in his family to go to college. I was taught, from a young age, that failure is something good, something constructive –[…]
Share This: A 2015 Gallup poll shows that in the United States over 50% of employees are not engaged, and 17.2% are actively disengaged. So how do you motivate people when over half of them are not engaged in the work place? Dan Pink in his book Drive, makes a[…]