Essential Retention Strategy
Building a stronger, more skillful, and more productive workforce is a priority for every employer, regardless of the industry that they’re based in. Developing a strong recruitment strategy is a major part of that effort, and most organizations (understandably) commit huge amounts of time, energy, and resources to identifying and onboarding new talent. While recruitment […]
How Do You Create a Diverse Workforce?
Today, promoting and maintaining a high degree of diversity in the workplace is a top priority for organizations across all industries. Through the implementation of workplace and recruiting policies that are aimed at maximizing diversity, a growing number of employers have come to understand this a simple and effective means of boosting productivity, improving workplace […]
Casual Friday and Beyond – How a Flexible Dress Code Can Improve Your Culture
As managers, we’re always on the lookout for new, creative, and effective ways to enhance the employee experience and improve the cultures that define our workplace. As a consequence, it’s important that we ask ourselves: what are the factors that actually contribute to optimizing workplace culture? There are several, but certainly one of the big […]
Employee Development Strategies
The scope of responsibility for modern managers is changing almost as rapidly as industry best-practices themselves. Today, it isn’t enough for managers to merely be the individuals within a business that are able to make the tough decisions or keep the trajectory of an organization on course. In 2020, managers are also expected to be […]
Show Candidate Value
There are certain qualities that all job candidates look for in potential employers while searching for a new position. Most obviously, candidates search for employers and positions that will be able to meet their expectations for compensation and that will be a good fit for their personal experience and professional background. Another crucial aspect of […]
Collect Team Feedback
Creating a positive, dynamic, and engaging workplace inevitably leads to decreased rates of employee turnover, increased productivity, and a generally more healthy and harmonious work environment. As managers, it’s our responsibility to ensure that we’re taking advantage of every possible opportunity there is to improve our workplace cultures. In order to achieve this, we must […]
Learn How to Become a Better Boss By Teaching Your Employees More
A common mistake for managers to make is believing that their sole responsibilities are to delegate tasks among their employees and to make the tough executive decisions. The most successful managers, however, understand that acting as a mentor for their employees is at least as important as carrying out the more mundane or technical […]
Traits to Lead a Team
Almost all successful teams share a common thread and that is loyalty and commitment to the task or tasks at hand. But a word of caution: Simply because you have the authority to build a team does not mean that authority alone will be enough to get the job done. You will need to inspire […]
Best Ways to Manage an Underperforming Employee
You spend a great deal of time, effort and money recruiting and training employees, and except in cases related to serious issues of misconduct, coaching is almost always well worth consideration. Before you begin, however, consider why employees might be underperforming. Employees Underperform for Three Main Reasons Employees typically do not set out to underperform. […]
Recognize Team Accomplishments
Favorable recognition is something almost everyone values and appreciates, and something managers want to do right. While it may involve awards and recognition, it must not discourage other employees. So what is the right way to do it? When You Manage a Team, Be Inclusive to All Your team might be large—say 20 or more […]