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The 3 Secret Blunders Leaders Make
The 3 Secret Blunders Leaders Make: The most damaging blunders leaders make are the ones they ignore. A blunder you DON’T notice leads to a dead-end. The 3 secret blunders leaders make: #1. Leaving your best self at home: The draining blunders leaders make include pretending you’re someone you...
Encouraging Your Company’s Young Employees is Crucial for Long-Term Success. Here’s Why (and How to Do It).
Your younger employees have the potential to change your business for the better, but they need support. We've moved past the days seen in movies like The Devil Wears Prada, in which a tyrannical boss gives direction to younger employees who either follow or are fired. Instead, bosses have...
How to Cover for Employees Gone for an Extended Period
Planning is important to avoid emergency responses. If the past few years have taught small business owners anything, it’s the unpredictability of life. Assuming that your small to medium business weathered the pandemic, you are understandably concerned about shoring things up ahead of the next...
Employee Arrests Outside of Work Hours: 4 Key Questions and Answers for Employers
When employees are arrested during their off-duty time and away from work, employers may need to make difficult choices balancing their various obligations. Among these are respecting the rights of arrested employees, ensuring the safety of workforces and workplaces, maintaining the continuity of...
Practical Guide to Writing Better Business Documents
Business writing can be successful if the employee establishes a personal connection with the reader. However, whether it’s a report for management or an email to a customer, writing better business documents gets the job done swiftly and efficiently. You don’t have to sound stuffy; go for a tone...
To Make Better Hires, Learn What Predicts Success
The current talent struggles of U.S. companies are hardly a new trend. A PwC survey dating 15 years back cited that 93% of CEOs recognized the need to change their strategy for attracting and retaining talent. If organizations have been trying to improve their hiring outcomes for so long, then why...
Adopting a New Model for People-Centric Performance Management
Traditional performance management techniques are more than 70 years old, and they’re not built for the way we work now. To address today’s HR challenges, you need a performance management model that puts people first. “The pandemic, as well as the retention issues that we were seeing and the...
7 Self-Sabotaging Mistakes in B2B Cold-Calling That Might Be Tanking Your Sales
Sales techniques are vital in boosting your revenue, supporting customers, and raising your business profile. Because 71% of buyers want to hear from sellers early in the buying process, cold-calling can be the strategy needed to connect with them. Approaching potential B2B customers and having...
Workplace Monitoring: 3 Steps to Balance Employee Productivity and Privacy
Collecting and analyzing employee performance data can improve efficiency, but make sure employees see the value in it. Long before the pandemic accelerated remote work, tools and technologies emerged to collect corporate “data exhaust.” This is the trail of often sensitive corporate and employee...