Best Practices
Protect Your Employees’ Rights With These 8 Tips
Protecting workers’ rights should be at the top of every small company owner’s priority list. Various laws enacted to promote fair and equal protection for all employees give the direction required to educate companies and…
How to Make Life Easier for Your Frontline Teams
Nearly 80% of the global workforce are frontline workers in hospitality, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and other professions where there isn’t a work-from-home option. These workers don’t spend the majority of their working hours sitting in…
The Benefits of Lean Operating Principles for Small Businesses (And How to Realize Them)
If you are a small business owner or entrepreneur that has been around for a while, chances are you have heard about the concept of lean business operations. It’s an idea that’s been popular in…
3 Ways to Be a Better Boss to Your Employees’
Pixabay Nobody wants to be a bad boss. However, there are plenty of them around. Most people know what it’s like to work under an employer who treats their staff badly, have no management skills,…
5 Ways to Foster Workplace Wellness Culture
Over the past few years, the concept of the workplace has changed dramatically. Expectations in the workplace have also changed. Advances in technology and multi-generational teams have redefined the modern workplace in many ways. More…
3 Remote Strategies for Better Project Management
More people are now working from home than ever before as the pandemic forced many people to transition their office jobs to home. There are also those who have, sadly, lost their jobs and decided…
Remote Work: 7 Tips for Project Management
Many people have been working online due to the pandemic, bringing the practice closer to those who originally never would have thought of changing their work routine. For some, remote work has brought more freedom…
Why Your Business Needs Supply Chain Diversity
Prior to the pandemic, lean supply chains were the key to success. Everything changed when coronavirus struck first in the world’s manufacturing center of China and put many suppliers in lockdown. As early as February…
How to Make Disabled Employees Feel Confident at Work
When most of us think of a disabled person, we might think of someone who’s wheelchair-bound, or has to travel everywhere on crutches, or who’s blind or deaf. While all of these categories would certainly…
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Encourage Retention of Stay-at-Home Workforce
With more workers at home than ever before, small businesses need to focus on retention. How can they keep their well-trained employees motivated? Hint: there may be some money involved. The Retention Problem Smart entrepreneurs…
