With unemployment at record lows and employers struggling to fill positions, the bargaining power is slowly shifting in favor of the worker. Business leaders are increasingly tasked with developing a work environment that is especially attractive to prospective employees, complete with various …
Leading Articles and Interviews (category)
When it comes to running a small business, leadership is of the utmost importance. Employees look to you for guidance and to set the tone for your company. Learn more about what it means to be an effective leader with the articles in this section, which cover topics such as employee management, hiring and firing, and team building.
Is Your Business at Risk? Take This Quiz.
All businesses, including yours, can be classified into four categories: “At-Risk.” Leaders in this group have lost control of the business and possibly their personal lives, too. “Average.” These businesses are doing well enough to reasonably satisfy the leaders but are vulnerable to …
Top 5 Skills for a Digital Workplace Leader
Inspiring, organizing and, overall, leading people in the digital workplace is not the same thing as doing so in person. Displaying charisma over a message is substantially harder, monitoring their work is easier and less invasive, while coordination happens to go either way. In other words, …
5 Reasons To Have An Office Christmas Party
Office Christmas parties are infamous for being full of mischief and alcohol, so are they worth it? Despite the bad reputation that these parties get, you’ll find that there are many benefits to throwing one of these events for your staff. To convince you of this, we have put together five reasons …
What is Sales Training and Why is it Important?
When your sales team receive an email inviting them to attend a sales training course, you can bet that they are going to sigh, roll their eyes, and try to do everything they can to get out of it. Why? Because your sales team want to spend their time doing their job – making sales and forming …
Tips to Easily Motivate Employees To Follow Your Safety Program
Most people don’t really like change. This is especially problematic when said change makes them do things they have been doing for years differently. This is very often the case for new safety programs. A good safety program is there to help your employees, to make their jobs safer, and also …
