Human Resources
3 Reasons It’s Harder Than Ever To Communicate With Your Factory’s Employees
If you’ve been in manufacturing for any length of time, you’ve noticed: it’s harder than ever to get the message across to your team. In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. Why is it so much harder to communicate…
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Four Great Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Team
The greatest asset of any business is the people who work there, but it’s easy to lose track of opportunities to show your team how much they matter in the day-to-day hustle and bustle. While expressing gratitude and appreciation to your team feels like a soft HR concept, it actually has a significant impact on…
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3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…
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The 4 Best Ways to Train Your Staff Using Digital Signage
We have run a small business for the past 35 years, and we’ve learned that when it comes to onboarding staff, you’re never quite done. Once you get someone trained and settled into their role, it’s time to hire and train someone else – either thanks to growth or due to typical turnover. Most small businesses don’t…
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Ensuring Success for New Hires
The first 90 days of a new appointment is make it or break it for your new employees. Your company’s communication strategy is a critical element of your company’s onboarding process if you want to retain the great people you’ve recruited. “Your goal in every transition is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point,” writes Michael D….
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Three Secrets to Keeping Your Best Employees
Finding great people, and keeping them, is paramount to your business’s longterm success. Too often, it seems like the conversation on employee retention is mostly directed at salary, and while it’s important to pay your people competitively, there’s more to the story when it comes to employee retention. Have you ever known someone who was stuck in…
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Building a Team: 5 Tips for Effective Onboarding
We’ve written about how expensive it can be to your company to lose your valuable team members to employee turnover. It’s equally important to remember that onboarding a new employee is one of the most important steps to building a successful team. More often than not “bad hires” are actually good employees who weren’t well-integrated into your team. A successful employee onboarding…
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The Real Cost of Employee Turnover
Your business’ most important asset is your employees. Recruiting the right people to your team is one challenge, but keeping them there requires a strong communications strategy and commitment to employee satisfaction. When you do lose an employee, you probably think about the costs of hiring someone new as advertising for the position, possibly contracting a recruitment service, or paying a temporary replacement. In reality,…
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Celebrate Your Team!
When you have the right team assembled, you want to keep them. We all already know that its significantly more expensive to hire a new employee than it is to retain a good one, and we’re convinced you can retain your great team without expending tons of extra time, effort, and money. Here are three great ways…
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Retain Your Employees
As business owners, we know that when you have a great employee, it’s vital to your business to keep them on your team. It’s costly to the bottom line, as well as the morale of the team, to lose your great staff members. Some studies indicate that it’s as costly as 6-9 months of the staff member’s…
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Digital Signage = Less Work For HR
Communication in the information age should be easier, but we can all attest that there is so much input at any given time that it’s hard to know which messages are the most important. Marketers know that most messages have to be delivered 7 times before any action is taken. When you’re familiar with the rule of 7,…
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Tips for Retaining Great Employees
Human Resources managers know, it costs an organization far more to hire a new employee in place of retaining (and even retraining) your employees. Keeping your people happy is a moving target, but there are some essential truths every business can put into place to have a better shot at keeping their people on their teams. Here are…
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Why Individuality Retains Employees Longer
Educators strive and frequently succeed in making students feel valued as individuals. Educational initiatives like Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, professional development initiatives for educators focused on differentiation, and opportunities to celebrate students individually through awards, achievements, and special days ensure that at some point, by the time a student graduates, they’ll have been made…
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Buh-bye, Bulletin Board!
We know, you love wasting your time. When you put together a poster, you want it to get lost among fifty others and never be seen. Right? Yeah. We know. When you have things you’re required to post for your employees, the really important, time-sensitive stuff just gets lost in the mix. But, there’s a better way. Great Human Resources managers…
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How Great Human Resources Managers Celebrate Individuality
Human Resources directors know that when your employees feel like they are seen, heard, and valued, a business thrives. We live in the age of the “selfie,” the “personal profile,” the “doubleshot grande iced soy mocha latte,” an age when individualism is everything. But, how do you emphasize the individuals in your big company while taking care of all…
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Five Reasons for HR to use Digital Signage
If we learned anything about Human Resources from Michael Scott and the rest of the Office cast, it was certainly that no matter how hard they work, HR employees can really have a challenging job. Between the rushing to handle interoffice matters and the inevitable eye rolling at memos, there has to be a better…