Teamwork begins at the top, most of us will set back and nod our head as people and training organizations tell us that teamwork is important, but we don’t realize that applies to us. We…
Customer Loyalty achieved by Active Strategic Management
Businesses know that it is a important to create a culture where the customer feels they are receiving value and being valued. It is ultimately the customer that is supporting your business and their words…
Human Nature vs. Office Teamwork: Who will Win Out?
Wikipedia has probably one of the most complete yet simple definitions of teamwork “Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively as a team in order to accomplish the same goals/objectives.” If you stop…
15 minutes to Strategic Management
We all know what is like to have a hectic morning where you just don’t seem like you had enough time to get ready or sleep or prepare for work. We rush in through the…
When Is A Manager A Manager And Not An Hourly Worker
Many employers attempt to avoid having to comply with federal and state laws by mis- classifying their employees. Instead of giving them their regular titles they are promoted in title to managers, supervisors, and assistant…
Dealing With Depression in the Workplace
As the business world evolves and changes, workers are expected to follow suit. Unfortunately, change comes naturally to some while others have trouble adapting. The trick is to find out why certain people are more…
Expat Recruitment in Asia
You are away from home and have begun to contemplate with the idea of a career move. You can either wait patiently for that elusive headhunter of integrity to surface and find you, or be…
Cross-Cultural Senior Management in Asia
The booming Asian economy is drawing an increasing amount of business process outsourcing. Many US companies are seeking help to improve communications and team efficiency through intercultural management training. It may confuse you to realize…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Reference Question
When someone leaves your employ your relationship with them is far from over. Former employee’s future job opportunities depend on the references from their past employers and the stakes can be very high. A good…
Human Resources – Taking New Directions
Some theories that were once thought to be too unfeasible or unrealistic to be practiced, have been efficiently incorporated into the work culture today. A few of these are listed below. More Than Formal Learning…
Employer Tips on Employee Tip Income
Some of the highest paid employees in the country relative to their skill, education and knowledge are service workers that regularly receive tips. Dancers, waiters, waitresses, and bartenders often earn more than professionals including nurses…
What Employee Compensation Records To Keep
Running a business means extensive records management and recording. Regardless of the what type of business you run there is a need to keep records for decision making and to comply with federal and state…
Motivating the Passive Sales Candidate
I was never very good in science class which is probably why I’m not a doctor today. Yet, I remember vividly the exercise on heated atoms. The experiment started with a flask of water and…
The Power of Employee Recognition
What does it take to truly motivate an employee? What breaks an employee’s resistance to showing up on time and lets them work with joy? What makes employees brag about the company that pays them?…
The Power of Employee Recognition
What does it take to truly motivate an employee? What breaks an employee’s resistance to showing up on time and lets them work with joy? What makes employees brag about the company that pays them?…
How Do I Retain Executives In Asia?
No matter it is a small firm or a large corporate set up, retention and motivation of executives are perhaps the two difficult tasks that any business owner faces. An executive, alternatively known by different…
Conflict: Beneficial or Just Risky Business
The stereotype that conflict is always detrimental is coming under attack from many researchers. There is a growing school of thought that conflict can stimulate an energetic and dynamic working environment that shakes apathy and…
Defining Dynamic: Managing the Personalities in your Organization
The good manager learns from day one that maximizing your resources is essential to good organizational management. Whether it’s people, materials, or money, using the resources on hand is the difference between success and failure….
Hiring is Based on Communication, Achievements and Functional Experience
Hiring the right person is very important for the upliftment of any type of establishment, no matter whether it is a software company or an educational institution. Hiring is basically centered on your communication skills,…
Recruiting Solutions For Your Business
As a business owner you have to have a certain level of people skills in order to deal with customers as well as with your employees. Too many times, people will put on their resume…
Why Should Employees Not Choose a Company Car
Some employers may ask, why should they have a choice when after all a company vehicle is no more than a tool to allow the employee to do their job? Well there are a number…
Roofing Employee Leasing: Providing Stability in Unstable Markets
Roofing is a very successful, but highly volatile sector of the construction industry. There are many challenges facing roofing business owners both externally in the market as well as internally within the company. The constantly…
Find Your Next Contract Position On Craigslist
As outsourcing becomes a more and more popular options for both small business and large corporations, Craigslist is leading the way for employers and contract employees to connect. Craigslist is an expansive community and those…
5 Ways to Avoid Employee Burnout
Burnout in employees and managers continues to be a major and costly issue affecting businesses today. Major inroads have been made in maintaining employee health through the use of Employee Assistance Programs,EAP, and improved employee…
How Are Instant Public Records Done On People?
It has become an unavoidable necessity nowadays to perform background checks on people. People want to perform background checks on the potential candidates they are hiring for jobs in their organization. Some of them also…
Locate Personal Records Can Open Some Hidden Secrets About People
We have to deal with so several people each day that there is definitely no place for skepticism. But these people we are associating ourselves with could have real shady pasts. This is how people…
Construction PEOs: What Does It Mean To Be a Leased Employee?
A construction PEO is a Professional Employer Organization. Essentially, their job is to manage the employment aspect of a business for a fee from the business owner. The business usually already has employees that work…
Can Small Business Survive the Immigration Debate?
Over the last 4 years leading up to the 2008 presidential election, the “immigration debate” has been increasing in volume almost exponentially. The attempts by congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform have failed despite fervent…
Employee Burnout And Motivation – More Tips
Would you be interested in effective ways for greatly lowering employee burnout and motivation? Or would you be interested in seeing how your current measures are doing in relationship to commonly known proven methods? Continue…
The Human Touch Will Never Be Replaced
Historically, customer service was delivered over the phone or in person. Customers didn’t have many choices, and switching to competitors was cumbersome. Today, these methods are but two of the many possible points of entry…
Motivation For Employees – Winning Tactics
It’s unbelievable to imagine that employee motivation would even be a problem since they are being paid to work right? Well since the common belief among most people (i.e. not in the know) that people…
Adapting to New Worksite Immigration Laws: Small Businesses Beware
The employment world is now reeling from a sudden new wave of government regulations and workplace enforcement efforts. Despite the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, new polices from US Immigration and Customs…
Are Your Employees Good Enough to Beat Your Competition?
An old saying goes ‘that in good times anybody can make money; in bad times only the best can.’ In down times, even more than boom times, employees become the critical edge. And in good…
Breakthrough Employees or How Does Our Company Get To Where We Want To Go?
There are employees and then there are breakthrough employees. Once in a blue moon the average company hires someone that can make a dramatic difference. This is usually done by chance in the routine hiring…
Workplace Diversity Can Be Linked To Schools
It is always interesting to view the amount of attention which is placed on workplace and cultural diversity in today’s global workplace. The reason of course is clear when you consider that companies are in…
Best Practices for Talent Management
Talent management, also referred to as human capital management, has now been regarded as an essential segment of modern corporate HR and training. Talent management is a multifaceted idea that is practiced to recruit, retain,…
How Important Is a Good Recruitment Process
A good recruitment process is very important for your company, but in more ways than you may think. The process itself speaks volumes about your company. It is a direct reflection of the validity and…
How to Organize and Run an Assessment Centre
Recruiting staff has never been easy. But with changes to legislation employers are having to be ever more careful as they assess candidates. An employer’s first responsibility of course is to recruit the best possible…
Dealing With Rater Over-Confidence In Employee Performance Reviews
With good performance review processes, you have the employee complete a self rating before you meet. Generally many employees rate themselves quite hard, or on par with your views of their performance. But what do…
International Relocation – How To Motivate Employees To Relocate!
When you work with big, multinational corporations that look for expertise, it can be quite hard and even near impossible to find the right genre of workers. When taken care of in the right way,…
Why Do I Need An Employee Manual
When businesses hire their first employees, they often start without having thought through fully all of the implications of what they are doing. This new person is going to be representing you and your company…
Employee Relocation – The Role Of Human Resources Development!
Even in very large business and companies, there exist some common rules and policies about employee relocation. Companies often lure professionals by offering bonuses and incentives. They offer these at times of relocation to their…
What Is A 360 Degree Employee Performance Review
I was talking with a manager the other day about their employee performance review processes. This company had been doing them for some time and wanted to take their reviews to the next level. What…
Relocating Employees – Keeping The Costs Down!
Employee relocation never works out cheap, and that goes double where top of the line executives of the company are concerned. Still, you need to keep your skilled workers happy so they perform well at…
Do You Have the Right Compensation, Incentive and Bonus Plan or It’s All About Me, Me, Me
Like the rat in the cage we are driven by rewards. It’s only human and also perhaps rat nature. Suffice it to say it’s nature. So when compensation, the reward, becomes stagnant so does productivity….