Posts Tagged ‘Employees’
How to Keep Employees from Becoming Competitors
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding employees who leave to become a competitor so I thought I’d take this opportunity to discuss ways to protect your small business.
Read More 10 Key Outsourcing Mistakes Made By Entrepreneurs
These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. We are in the age of outsourcing.
Read More A Supportive Atmosphere for Pregnant Employees
When an employee becomes pregnant, it may cause some mixed feelings or concerns for both parties. However, with the right support system, the team can end up stronger than they were before.
Read More Is Your Small Business Conducting Exit Interviews?
Employee turnover is expensive. Human research professionals estimate the cost of turnover ranges from 50 to 200 percent of an employee’s annual salary. Furthermore, an employee resignation can impact the morale and productivity of your remaining team members.
Read More New Research on How to Motivate Your Employees
How to motivate employees? According to new research, messages from on high need to be more abstract and less details. And messages from immediate supervisors need to be more concrete. Here’s the summary.
Read More What Does Seattle’s Minimum Wage Mean to Franchising?
FranNet stands in support of all small business owners, and does not want to see franchisees unfairly singled out as “major corporations” – which they are not. We hope you’ll stand in support as well.
Read More 3 Key Hiring Lessons for Growing Startups
When we first started building our company, I was relatively new to the hiring process, and it was daunting. This time, however, I feel a little more seasoned, and am actually looking forward to putting what we learned a couple of years ago into practice.
Read More Quality and Meaning for People
In the open-talent economy, employees have options, and talent is a scarce resource. Business leaders are thinking like talent economists and sustainability…
Read More Letting Staff Make Decisions in Customer Service Issues
A critical piece of every business’s customer service strategy is how you plan to handle customer concerns. When properly dealt with, complaints are an opportunity to transform angry or upset customers into extremely loyal ones.
Read More 5 Tips to Finding and Keeping Talented Employees
Seeking new talent and acquiring it is a good thing, but having a constant turnover of employees coming and going can be detrimental to the performance, and overall sustainability of your company.
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