People Skills
How to Best Deal with Business Confrontations
Generally, people don’t like conflict. Yet the reality of running your own business is that there will be times where you have to deal with confrontation. Whether it’s an unreasonable client, two members of staff…
Improve Your EQ to Improve Your Business
“The customer is always right” doesn’t seem to apply to many situations anymore. It’s an artifact of a bygone era when daily life was slower and maintaining relationships with your regular customers at all costs…
How to Get Happier Employees
Happy employees work harder and do a better job than those that are unhappy. While you cannot control all areas of an employee’s life that affects their happiness, there are some easy changes that can…
You Can Deal with a Problem Employee
“The tougher the job, the greater the reward”. -George Allen Problem employees are the bane to every manager. By problem employee, I am normally referring to an employee whose behavior is significantly affecting the morale…
How to Attract and Retain More Millennial Workers for Your Business
With the increase of millennials in the workforce, businesses need to understand the differing values of this generation in order to be able to recruit and retain new employees. Currently, 40 percent of companies employ…
10 Tips to Keep Your Team Positive and Engaged
Keeping your team positive and engaged can be challenging. There will be times when it’s more difficult than others. Here are ten tips to help keep your team positive and focused on the task at…
5 Budget-Friendly Ideas for Celebrating Employees
Keeping employees motivated and feeling appreciated is one of the most important ways for an organization to improve productivity and morale in the workplace: “Research shows that feeling appreciated—which comes from recognition from others—is one…
Emotional Intelligence: A Key Factor for Every Great Leader
For decades, if not since forever, people have been led to believe it’s a person’s IQ that is important for leadership. Yet psychology has proven this isn’t really the case. Just because someone has a…
6 Office Habits That Increase Your Chance of Promotion
A lot of people believe that, when it comes to a promotion, you should only be patient. Nonetheless, just like simply going to school won’t get you good grades, just showing up at work won’t…
Why Employees Need Guidelines Not Just Rules
Rules are an essential part of any business. Rules are necessary to ensure we make intentional decisions. Rules are written to make sure people are treated equally and consistently. While there’s nothing wrong with this…
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