How do you get people to act ethically in the workplace? It starts at the top.
5 Key Steps to Cut Down Your Time To Hire
Going against the traditional ideas of hiring, look at long term goals to hire successfully. Finding and hiring the right people for your business is one of the most important, and time consuming processes for any business. The faster you fill open positions with the right people, the faster your business grows in the short and long term. Despite years …
Executive Insight: Challenge Your Employees
Give your people what they want: the opportunity to continually exercise and build on their skill set. Employees across today’s workforce oftentimes want new challenges. After all, talented people try to stretch themselves to grow their skill set—and also because stretch assignments can be motivating and satisfying. At Accenture, we like to meet that challenge under our own roof. As part of …
Boosting Employee Productivity & Positivity Through Health
How managers can improve their employees work and by focusing on their health habits When the Founder and Chairman of an international company is diagnosed with cancer at the age of 56, it’s not expected that an announcement would be made to all the clients and field operations around the world. But that’s just what I did. As the Founder …
Executive Insight: Understanding the ‘Why’
With the help of her team, Transplace CHRO Adrianne Court gets to the bottom of why employees change positions Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is Adrianne Court’s response. I’m not surprised by the CareerBuilder …
How to Manage Distracted Employees
Prevent your team from losing focus by understanding how distractions start As managers know, workday distractions are everywhere, stealing your employees’ precious time and productivity. Between new technologies that beg for people’s attention to the prevalence of shortened attention spans, everyone on your team has the opportunity to be more distracted today than in the past. Of course, being distracted …
Building a Personal Brand
Five steps to defining and executing your own brand
Executive Insight: Attracting & Retaining Top Talent
Karen Stout, SVP of HR, shares Arbonne’s initiatives to improve employee engagement.
Executive Insight: Retaining Top Talent in 2014
Finding power in the question, “What will make you stay?” Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is John Schierer’s response. Your best talent is always looking for an opportunity, so the survey data is not …
Achieving Happy Growth
Balancing existing staff with new hires in 2014 Building a successful team of people is one of the most challenging aspects of any business. As the economy continues its march to recovery, companies seek to build their organizations with new people to support new growth. At the same time, recent studies show that many are considering new jobs in the …
The New World of One Degree
How Kevin Bacon is changing sales. If you were born in the age of bell bottoms like me, you probably have played at one time or another the old parlor game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” or “Six Degrees of Separation,” which suggested that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintances apart from each other—from Kevin Bacon, …
1-2-3 to a Better Personal Brand
The author of “Brand Aid” offers three steps toward building your more-important-than-ever individual brand. The market demands authentic brands. Consumers, employers and vertical connections now rely on word of mouth, social groups, recommendations and strong connections above all else. It is with that, plus extensive research for “Brand Aid,” that I can confidently state: The individual is now more important …
Harness the Power of the Recommendation
Reviews are now a highly accessible and powerful resource for consumers, make them work in favor of your business. Recommendations and word of mouth have always been important. Research tells us that 92 percent of consumers say a word-of-mouth recommendation is their top determinant in making a purchase decision (Nielsen 2012). But in the age of social media, recommendations are …
Employee Rivalry: Five Tips for Managing Dueling Staffers
Troubles at work? Consider these steps toward maintaining office harmony. Child Psychiatrist David Levy introduced the term “sibling rivalry” in 1941. Self-explanatory in its terminology, the concept of sibling rivalry is easy to grasp. The mechanism of employee rivalry works essentially the same way, with the employees in a competitive relationship, striving for greater approval from their employer or manager. …
The Benefits of Creating an Online Community
Extend your relationships with employees, partners and community via an effective virtual presence By James Davidson “A new class of company is emerging—one that uses collaborative technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization’s reach to customers, partners and suppliers…” This quote from a McKinsey study has always resonated with me as I …
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