Posts Tagged ‘Employees’
The Importance of Hiring the Right Teammates: Our 3-Step Process
Your team is critical. Not only do you spend more time with them at your fast-growing company than you do with your own family, but a very large part of your success will depend on the quality and mindset of these individuals.
Read More Stealing Time
It’s a big issue within any company. With easy access to Internet shopping, games, social networks and more, employees are able to find many ways to focus on personal issues while at work, detracting from productivity and demonstrating a disrespect for the time paid for by their employer.
Read More Ready for Your First Employee?
Small businesses usually start-off as a one-man show. When you are the owner you do everything from emptying the trash to collecting the cash. As your business grows, however, it can reach a point where the volume of work is overwhelming.
Read More Two Very Powerful Words: Great Job!
The best managers we all know are the ones who take the time to praise good work in public, before an employee’s peers. For all of us, we should remember that the best possible way to honor great work is to do so immediately.
Read More Social Media Strategy Drives Employee Engagement
Spherion Staffing commissioned a study by Harris Interactive on the Emerging Workforce. The study identified key strategies to help organizations become socially engaged and ultimately, positively impact business performance.
Read More All This Talk is Killing Your Company Culture
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about “company culture” and what that really entails. A lot of people call BS, claiming that it’s just a way to entice talent, win awards, and get some positive press. So what really is company culture?
Read More Franchisees Gain Advantages of Self-Employment
We know that franchise businesses are important in the U.S. as employers—about one third of all the revenue in the U.S. flows through franchises and one in 16 American workers is employed at a franchise. But ownership is not the same as employment.
Read More “Over-Welcome” Your New Employees
A CEO friend of mine who manages her one hundred person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomes new employees as she grows her firm. Strike that. She over-welcomes her new employees.
Read More Are You Retaining Your Top Employees?
As a small business owner, one of your main concerns is how to retain your top employees. You’ve spent months or even years grooming your employees to fulfill their highest potential. Now you can see the risk in having them leave, right when they provide the most value for your business.
Read More 6 Types of Employees (and How to Handle Them)
Just like there are different types of managers, there are also different types of employees. Understanding which each your staff is most aligned with can help you better manage them.
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