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Dealing with Small and Large Trust Issues with Employees

Once you have a bad experience with an untrustworthy employee, you may have difficulty trusting your employees again. This kind of bad experience could be small; maybe someone is just taking home paper from the mailroom. Or it could be big, such as when someone is selling your company secrets

A Solution to Over-Thinking: Relying on Your Gut Feeling

We’re human beings and conscious thought is one of our characteristics. It can help us to do many things that other mammals can’t—invent things, be creative and improve our standard of living. We can build houses, run businesses and create pieces of art as a result of conscious thought. Instinct,

Top Mistakes Managers Make That May Be Impacting Your Company

When it comes to management, you want the best of the best leading your team. You want effective supervision with the right amount of oversight so that the job gets done appropriately but also allowing employees to feel independent, empowered, and trusted. After all, what is a company without all

Additional Benefits of Outsourcing Your HR Department

Outsourcing has been growing in popularity in recent years amongst small to medium-sized businesses as a way to reduce overhead costs. A common department for these companies to outsource is human resources, as outsourcing HR can be a great way to save time and money. However, if you are not

How Little Things Can Count for More Than Big Things in Entrepreneurship

In order for a business to succeed, it has to be people-focused. This means focusing on your customers and understanding them as people first and customers second. It also means focusing on your employees and understanding them as people first and employees second. Unfortunately, most workplaces are set up in

Take Time Out for Self-Reflection with Mindfulness and Mini-Breaks

We all know that introspection or self-reflection is a good thing. But we live in a society which hardly encourages us to reflect. This is a problem which has been going on for a long time because, in 1911, W. H. Davies wrote, “What is this world so full of

Get Rid of Disorganization and Negativity in Your Business

Often, you find that the idea of running a business is quite different from actually running a business, just like theory is different from practice. In your mind, you might have envisioned running your business a certain way. But when you actually started your business, you had to abandon these

Tips to Hire the Right Employee

There comes a time when you need to hire someone to help you with your business. However, once you make the decision, the real work is just starting. Before you even place an ad, you have to decide what the job is going to be. Do you need a part-time

How to Stop Remembering the Past and Worrying About the Future

Everyone has heard the phrase “being in the present” but not everyone understands exactly what it means. How can you not be in the present? After all, the present is all that we have. The past has already gone by and the future isn’t here. But even though you might

Human Resources: A Successful Tip for Employee Engagement!

Two wrongs don’t make a right is a familiar saying. A new saying is, one critique and two praises create employee growth. Soliciting employee growth is important for any business and creating more growth in a long-term employee is a significant next step. Using this method, one critique and two

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