Does it often seem like you keep trying to get the same things done day after day, but there are always too many distractions? One way to deal with this is to plan work days better, to build a more concrete strategy for addressing all the tasks and procedures that… Read more
4 Stress Relief Tips to Share with Your Team Before 2016
Stress can be really devastating to people. It can affect their emotional and physical health. But work doesn’t have to be stressful – in too many cases, it becomes stressful because business leaders don’t know how to structure their companies to support people the right way. Here are some practical… Read more
Evaluating Work/Life Balance for Your Employees During the Holiday Season
Supervisors and managers are familiar with handling certain kinds of demands that come with the holiday season. They’re familiar with trying to ramp up retail operations, get new messaging to customers, and step up their local market competition as Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around. However, lots of them are not as accustomed… Read more
4 Tips on Conducting a Thorough (and Productive) Review
Experienced managers know that there’s an art to giving a performance review. It’s not as easy as just watching somebody do their work, making a few basic notes, and then sitting down with that person and talking to them for a little bit. The review is a lot more than… Read more
Time Management Tips to Help Improve Your Team’s Productivity
Time management is a big buzzword in today’s business world. Why? Because there is often so much to do, and so little time to go around. You’d think that the digital age would have saved us all a lot of time, and that our work days would be about four… Read more
How Can You Make Sure Your Employees Show Up For Work Every Day?
Workplace absenteeism and tardiness are major issues for any company. In the end, business leaders and managers can’t ignore these metrics as they look at overall productivity and how well the business is working. Supervisors and managers are tasked with the difficult process of keeping absenteeism down and maintaining headcounts… Read more
4 Ways to Minimize Employee Exposure to the Flu
The holiday season is upon us, and that means that flu season is coming around, too. How do you keep your workplace free of these tough winter illnesses? The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA has provided guidelines for both medical and non-medical workers. These tips will help… Read more
Want to Improve Employee Productivity? Consider Adding Improvements to Your Break Room
If you want to build a really great company culture, one of the often overlooked things you can do to improve productivity and morale is to make your break room work for your employees. The break room is the safe haven — it’s the one place employees have to themselves in… Read more
3 Ways a Temporary Job Can be a Stepping Stone to a Permanent Opportunity
It’s true that job security isn’t what it used to be, and more people are working temporary jobs or trying to fill gaps to sustain employment, but in reality, a temporary job really can become a springboard to something quite a bit better and more consistent. First of all, there’s… Read more
Become a Visionary Thinker that Employees Look Up To
Thought leadership is a popular term right now, and that’s great, but how do you get to that place? It’s all well and good to say that you have a goal to become part of the vanguard of an industry, or to become the type of person that people ‘follow.’… Read more