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Best Hiring Practices For Your Business

Effective hiring is not only a question of who you hire, but how. The process and hiring decisions set the business standard, determines company potential from the moment it begins, and helps create future successes and failures. Before the employee is hired, the moment you make first contact during the hiring

Effective Performance Reviews: Four Rules to Live By

A surprising number of leaders struggle with giving direct, honest, productive feedback to their team. Be it the hesitation to critique our “best” team member for fear of damaging their morale, or to finally sit down one-on-one to hash things out with the most “troublesome” employee, the yearly performance review

Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines in Your Business

Occupational health and safety concerns are overwhelming for new employers and make some of the common, most costly, and most dangerous violations in the workplace. Even in office environments, there are a plethora of safety laws that employers must implement to protect employees or risk being liable. In all environments,

3 Simple Ways to Boost Employee Morale

Low morale can have a negative impact on a company’s bottom line. Miserable employees don’t perform well, and if an atmosphere is toxic, turnover will rise and productivity will fall. However, there are things employers can do to keep negativity at bay. Here are three simple (and free!) ways to

Career Development: Working Hard vs. Working Smart

Most of us are raised to believe that working hard will help us to advance in our careers. And a lot of people who have achieved great things in their lives will also tell you the same—that they got where they did by working hard. Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule Malcolm

Start the New Year off Right!

It’s a new year and people around the world are setting goals and planning for an exciting 2018. January is also a great month for businesses and nonprofits to establish their human resources objectives and determine if their organization is operating at its peak. Here are three HR resolutions to

Four More Tips to Avoid a Bad Hire

A bad hire can be costly for a business. Not only does it take time and money to find a new employee, training one the right way also takes a lot of time. If you are constantly hiring and training people, your business can suffer. So, how else can you

Three Tips to Avoid a Bad Hire

A bad hire can cost a business a lot. It takes a lot of time and money to look for potential employees. Training an employee the right way can take a lot of time as well. If you are constantly hiring and training people, your business can suffer. So, how

Physical vs. Mental Reasons for Lack of Motivation

Motivation is a problem which never entirely goes away. No matter how successful you might be, no matter how much money you make and no matter how much you love your job, you might still feel unmotivated from time to time. In fact, people who are at the peak of

The Importance of Employee Training

Between hiring new recruits and waving goodbye to leavers, it can be easy to overlook the ones in the middle. Or more specifically, to forget about their training. After all, the people you hire are often qualified for the job, right? However, industries change and for your business to keep

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