Why The Best Managers Need to Step Away for a Minute

• March 15, 2016
• Posted in Human Resources

Being a manager is a huge job with a great deal of responsibility. If you’re like many people in leadership roles, you probably rarely take a break throughout the workday, much less a vacation. What you may not realize is constantly working is wearing you down and this is impacting your ability to lead. Even [...] Read More

How Long Until You Give Up On an Employee Who is Constantly Late?

• January 23, 2016
• Posted in Management

Even the best employees on your team have probably been late for work a time or two. People oversleep, have car trouble and hit unexpected traffic jams that keep them from arriving to work on time. As an understanding boss, you know that sometimes life gets in the way of punctuality. However, some people constantly [...] Read More

The Top 5 Pain Points in Performance Reviews (And How To Solve Them)

• February 15, 2013
• Posted in Human Resources

Most everyone dreads dealing with performance appraisals. Let's be honest: performance reviews are a pain in the you-know-what. Employees don't like them and HR aren't fans either--45 percent of HR leaders didn't think reviews were good gauges of a worker's performance, compared to last year's 39 percent, according to a poll by the Society of [...] Read More