The most successful companies are the ones whose managers understand that employee morale affects the bottom line, either positively or negatively. Employees who are not happy in their jobs aren’t going to put forth their best effort, and finding ways to keep his team motivated is a major part of any manager’s job. The corporate… Read more »
College career fairs are a great place to find new, promising talent, but attending them requires a significant investment. Sending representatives to a college or university entails paying those employees’ salaries, along with their transportation, lodging and dining expenses. If you own or run a company and are planning on sending recruiters to university job… Read more »
You probably know that being a great entrepreneur also involves being a great leader. If you are the founder and the visionary behind the company — no one else can or should lead. While it might be difficult to define what makes a good leader effective, there are a number of habits that they tend to… Read more »
While technology has advanced by leaps and bounds over the last half century, human evolution has yet to make the necessary adjustments to adapt. Even though we’ve been conducting conference calls since the days of the party line in the 1950s, many subtleties of face-to-face conversations are lost when our conversations go from the boardroom… Read more »
Keeping Employees Healthy and Safe During Hot Summer Months Heat illness is the body’s inability to deal with heating and cooling itself. And it can be deadly. Therefore, employers in the energy industry with employees working in a plant or facility where they spend much of their day outside need to pay close attention to… Read more »
Communication is key to all relationships, whether personal or professional. As such, effective communication is vital to any project’s success. The flow of information between project team members is like the lifeblood of a project. Any team in which the members don’t communicate well won’t be as productive, resulting in lose of money for the… Read more »
Most individuals don’t discuss empathy the general ability to understand, appreciate and relate to what other people are experiencing or feeling in business with particularly high frequency, but it is a trait that all successful business people should strive to develop and possess. Often confused with sympathy the ability to detect and react to the… Read more »
If you’re like most managers, you know that team building activities can be a very good thing. You might get excited reading about the various exercises and the results you’re sure to attain–until you take a step back and think about the various personalities, strengths and weaknesses of your actual team. Before you launch off… Read more »
Employees are humans and all come with different experiences, skills, preferences and ideas. Subsequently, conflict is somewhat hard to escape in the workplace. As a manager, you are charged with keeping it to a minimum and eliminating it where you can. These strategies can get you on the right path. Create and enforce stronger… Read more »
A job description is more than just a title to a want ad; it leads to a thought process that helps the employer understand how important each job is to the business overall. An accurate job description ensures employees understand exactly what is expected of them, and on what criteria they will be judged. A… Read more »
