Posts Tagged ‘Team’
5 Office Party Themes Your Employees Will Love
Anyone who has worked in an office is familiar with the monthly shuffle into the break room to sing a quick happy birthday and partake of waxy grocery store cake. These types of celebrations are very common and widespread – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that employees enjoy them. As a matter of fact, brief…
Read More5 Proven Ways to Build and Manage Great Teams
A team is a group of people who come together towards a common goal. In any given organization, there must be a functional team to work to run effectively. In as much as people are employed as individuals, there are certain tasks that require people to work together as a team. In these instances, the…
Read MoreCreating a Smooth Transition After a Key Employee Moves On
Kim had been with LogicPrep from the very beginning when there were just four of us working out of one room. Since joining in 2011, she helped us grow from four to 25 employees, coordinate the move to our current office (she and her husband literally carried furniture and hung our sign) and consistently increased annual revenue by 30 percent year…
Read MoreHow to Mentor Your Employees
No business owner wants to look around the office and see a bunch of bored, lazy employees who are all but falling asleep at their desks. Aside from making good hiring decisions, what else can you do as a boss to make sure your employees stay dedicated, passionate, and hard-working? One key thing to keep…
Read MoreAre You Coping Well with an Ever-Changing Workforce?
In the past, employees would often commit to one company for many years and work their way up the career ladder. However, the working world has changed and has welcomed the rise of millennial workers, who are simply not ready to commit to one business for the next 20 years. Instead, they will spend time…
Read MoreSoaring to Success: How to Build a Winning Small Business Team
When Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane assembled a contending Major League Baseball team, he gained lots of notoriety for signing players using a strategic analysis of their statistics that had never been done before. Mixing younger players with older veterans made the A’s a winning team. Building a small business team has lots of…
Read MoreFocus on Your People’s Strengths?
There are a number of thoughtful articles suggesting we get better results in developing our people by focusing on their developing their strengths, not “fixing” them, or criticizing their weaknesses. A recent HBR article, Developing Employees’ Strengths Boosts Sales, Profit, and Engagement, presents compelling data about organizations focusing on strengths based interventions (I guess that’s HBR…
Read MoreTell-Tale Signs You Aren’t Ready to Manage Yet
Small businesses don’t grow by themselves. Of course, that’s why you’re expanding. But stepping up to a management role requires a new and unique set of abilities. Sheer determination will only take you so far. For this next phase of growth, exceptional communication and an intuitive ability to respond to difficult situations are needed. A…
Read MoreThe Best Techniques for Tackling the Worst HR Problems
While not every organization has a dedicated, in-house human resources (HR) team, you can bet that every company has problems that need to be addressed from an HR standpoint. Even the smallest startups can have problems that, if not corrected, can have a significant impact on operations, productivity, and the bottom line. Whether you outsource…
Read MoreHow to Enhance Your Employees’ Collaboration Through Team Spirit
Creating and sustaining a cooperative and collaborative environment should be the top priority for managers. You can build effective teams with employees that identify with their company’s goals and vision, especially when they know that they will feel satisfied and receive a reward after completing a project. Those managers who have to handle their in-house…
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