If you hire someone for a long-term, full-time project or a series of projects that are likely to last for an extended period, you must pay special attention to the difference between independent contractors and employees. Why It Matters The Internal Revenue Service and state regulators scrutinize the distinction between employees and independent contractors. That’s […]
Employees
Why Your Small Business Needs to Adopt eLearning for Employee Training
As more businesses realize the importance of learning and development (L&D) for staying relevant in today’s competitive environment, small businesses are faced with a unique challenge. While larger enterprises have little restraint when it comes to investing in employee training, smaller businesses are tied by bootstrap budgets and infrastructure-related challenges if they want to deploy training initiatives. […]
Over-Promoting Employees: Recalling the Peter Principle
Remember the Peter Principle? Funny how good messages come back in new forms after years of languishing out in the ether. Dr. Laurence J. Peter in The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong wrote in the early 1960’s of the “lateral arabesque,” describing how companies promote incompetent employees sometimes by sending them to another department or […]
Simple Ways to Ensure Your Corporate Training Sticks
Thanks to an increasing skill gap, lack of interest in training, and employee turnover due to lack of proper training, businesses are losing $13,500 annually for every employee that gets trained. This number does not look surprising considering only 12% of learners apply the skills they obtain during training to their day-to-day tasks. As corporate […]
How to Stop Time Theft from Overwhelming Your Small Business
Even if you’ve never heard the term “time theft,” you’d know it if you saw it. But if you’re a small business owner with employees, chances are good you’ve experienced it firsthand. You might be thinking, “I have employees. I’ve never caught anyone ‘stealing time.’” But that’s what makes time theft so tricky. It’s common, […]
How to Plan an Office Weight Loss Challenge
Trying to dodge the office vending machine, your colleagues’ candy bowl, and the traditional breakroom diet becomes a hard feat to achieve when you are trying to lose weight. But it’s possible to stick to your diet and resist these temptations altogether by motivating others to join your weight loss plan. And there is no […]
Firing an Employee
If you’re reading this, you’re likely in a difficult situation already—you’re trying to figure out how to fire one of your employees. This isn’t an easy task. You’re likely reviewing their performance, thinking about your own decisions, and trying to figure out what went wrong. Once you’re sure this is the course you want to […]
5 Innovative Ways to Engage Your Staff
Ensuring employees feel engaged in the workplace is an effective yet often overlooked method of increasing productivity. Just think about it—if a staff member is feeling unmotivated and unchallenged, they simply aren’t going to produce their best work time and time again. In turn, their level of efficiency is going to drop which will then […]
4 Things a Business Owner Can Do to Improve Employee Performance
Every business owner must make sure that employees are performing to their fullest. Over time, successful business owners have shared many tips and advice to help improve your employees’ performance, but motivating your employees to get there is not an easy task. It is a daunting challenge and requires patience and great leadership skills. While […]
3 Ways to Convince a Demoralized Employee to Stay
There comes a time in many employees’ lives when they feel it is time for them to move on. This may be as a result of that employee’s desire to take on a new career path, or they may have personal or family obligations that require them to leave their position. In cases like these, […]
