Are Your Employees Telling the Truth?
October 4, 2016
To be an effective manager, you need to know the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. But if you try to get…
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Posts tagged: Hr Issues
Does Your Team Need to Go Back to the Classroom?
- September 7, 2016
School is back in session – and across the country, parents are heaving a collective sigh of relief. Now that kids have returned to their…
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The Unexpected Qualities of a Toxic Employee
- August 8, 2016
When it comes to negative employees, managers typically expect individuals who: Don’t pull their weight Continually gripe about their work Get on peers’ and supervisors’…
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Bringing the Team Together
- July 6, 2016
Diverse personalities. Specialized skill sets. Unique strengths. Varied perspectives, agendas and motivations. If you’ve ever managed a team, you can appreciate all the ways individual…
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Salary – You Get What You Pay For
- June 3, 2016
Do your employees perform like they were plucked from a gleaming display at Nordstrom… …or more like they were dug out of the clearance bin…
Read MoreHow to Keep Turnover from Turning YOU Over
- March 30, 2016
Recently lost a good employee? You just lost money right off your bottom line. And turnover costs a heck of a lot more than you…
Read MoreYou Have to Pay to Play – Are Your Pay Rates High Enough?
- February 2, 2016
5% unemployment? It may signal a healthier economy, but it also creates intense recruiting pressure. As good people become tougher to source and hire, you…
Read MoreTo Test, or Not to Test? That is the (Employment) Question
- December 30, 2015
And it’s a really important one. Research presented at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2015 Employment Law & Legislative Conference shows that: Nearly 10…
Read MoreBe Diverse, Not Divergent
- November 30, 2015
Do you have a team of employees who all think and behave in exactly the same way? Of course you don’t. Each employee brings his…
Read MoreHow to Make Performance Reviews a Little Less Painful
- November 2, 2015
Oh, the agony. It’s performance review time again, and you’re already dreading the process: The endless meetings. The “deer in the headlights” look on employees’…
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