The holiday season is upon us and your employees have probably been saving up their vacation days to enjoy time off with their family and friends. As a generous employer, you want your team to take their paid time off when they please, but things can get a bit dicey when everyone wants the same [...]
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The holidays are just around the corner, so it’s a great time to show appreciation to your co-workers for what they do for you all year round. You may even want to set your first New Year’s resolution – and make acknowledging your peers at work a regular practice, regardless of the season. Some of [...]
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With technology bringing people closer together, and more and more people desiring to have flexible options for work, it’s imperative that you know how to get everyone working together as if they were all in the same building. Fortunately, there are ways to make this happen successfully, allowing for a better work-life balance for employees [...]
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Oh, the agony. It’s performance review time again, and you’re already dreading the process: The endless meetings. The “deer in the headlights” look on employees’…
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All set for that HR audit? Or does the mere mention of it make you break out in a cold sweat? Whether you’re gearing up…
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As the boss, it’s beyond frustrating to ask your employees to do something and be met with a resounding “No.” In some cases, this means you have a bad seed on your hand, but in others, you may actually be the problem. Good workers are hard to come by, so it’s important to get to [...]
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You always want the best people for your team, and you may have just what you need waiting in the wings if you have successful interns. So how do you know which interns to hire and which ones to simply thank for their time? Use the following criteria to help you decide. They’ve significantly contributed [...]
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Effective onboarding is a crucial tool to ensure that new employees feel like part of your business and fully understand your company culture. The ability to introduce new hires to your organization, make them productive and effective in the shortest possible time – and retain them – is an essential business priority with key bottom-line [...]
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A good leader must always project a rock-solid demeanor of calm, leaving sentiment at home - lest employees think them weak, of course. Then again, maybe not. If you want employees to get passionately invested in their work and the company, you have to show a little passion yourself. A message that comes off as too [...]
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As reported by the White House, full-time working women receive 77 percent of their male counterparts’ salaries. April 20 was “equal pay payday,” representing how far a woman needed to work into 2015 to earn as much as a man did in 2014. And as cited by 77 percent of females and 63 percent of [...]
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November 9, 2015
