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How to Automate Your Hiring Process Without Missing Good Candidates
Applicant-tracking systems like Greenhouse can help manage your hiring surge. Here's how to take full advantage. When pandemic demand led Pattern Brands, an NYC-based e-commerce retailer of items for the home, to double its team and hire 27 full-time employees in the past six months, co-founder...
Five Leadership Strategies for Thriving In 2022
Every week brings more reminders of how unique and challenging a time we are living in. How and when will things stabilize? It’s becoming harder to know which indicators to trust. Momentum around the vaccines has been met with increasing concern over Delta and now Omicron. Lately, it’s a tough...
Companies Embrace Older Workers As Younger Employees Quit or Become Less Reliable
At 73, showing up to work five days a week in the shipping department of AIS Inc.—an office pod manufacturing company he’s been with for nearly two decades—was starting to be a grind for Bob Adams. He kept having to request Fridays off for doctor’s appointments to help keep his nagging diabetes,...
The 10 Commandments of Employee Terminations
Terminations are always unpleasant, but these rules can make it easier and less risky. You will eventually need to terminate an employee if you own a business. If you are not careful, you will do it the wrong way. This can go spectacularly badly--just ask Vishal Garg if you're not sure. His Zoom...
How to be a Good Leader in 2022
With the new evolving landscape, it is more important than ever to be a good leader to retain employees and keep them happy. With the new year coming sooner than later, now is a great time to consider additional steps that you can take to improve your leadership skills. That said, according to the...
Managing a Negative Influencer
Dear Crucial Skills, I have an employee who makes negative comments and tries to undermine leadership. She is a great teacher, but she creates a toxic environment with our staff, and she has a strong influence on them. How can I handle this behavior? Signed,Seeking Suggestions Hi Seeking, I’m...
Glassdoor Predicts the Top 4 Workplace Trends for 2022
Instability has been the recurring theme of the last 22 months, and that doesn’t seem to be changing as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Employers want to enter 2022 as prepared as possible to take on the challenges plaguing the workforce, including stress, burnout and financial...
How Good Management Skills Help Entrepreneurs Succeed
The key to success as an entrepreneur is developing good management skills. That’s right, it might seem impossible at first glance, but with a little bit of training and practice, you’ll see that the more time you put into improving your management skills, the better off you will be in the long...
3 Ways to Keep Your People from Burning Out
Encourage people to speak with trusted peers, check in on them, and approve their solutions to stave off burnout. With the Covid-19 pandemic poised to begin its third year, business leaders face a host of significant challenges. Among the most significant is that in many industries demand exceeds...