Human Resources
The Biggest Red Flags of Poor Internal Communication
Most businesses struggle with communication at some point. In an age where strong communication skills are prized and we have numerous options for modes of communication, one would think we’d all be better at communicating. In fact, most people think they’re doing a great job of communicating, when in fact their message isn’t really getting…
Human Resources
Holistic Human Resources: Creating an Employee-Centric Culture
In any size company, those leading the team are playing a dual game: build the best customer experience you possibly can in order to be highly profitable AND create a culture that employees deeply love their jobs. Great leaders know that those two tasks are actually intertwined, but it can be easy to place a…
Business Goals
Keep Your Eye on the Prize
One of the greatest challenges you have as you lead your team is to keep the entire team pulling together in the same direction. Team leaders – business owners, human resources professionals, managers – address this challenge in a myriad of ways. Many teams have adopted the principal of setting SMART goals at intentional planning…
Human Resources
Three Keys to Employee Retention
Employee retention is a huge area of focus for all business owners. When it comes right down to it, it is far more costly and challenging to hire and train someone new than it is to retain someone who is doing a great job. Creating and maintaining a workplace where your employees thrive and feel…
Human Resources
Four Common Misconceptions About Your Staff
When you lead a team as an HR leader, executive, or owner, you are afforded a perspective on your business, on your team, that few have the opportunity to share. Your vantage point as a leader allows you to see the holistic structure of your company. Yet, the advantage of being a leader also means…
Human Resources
Starting Fresh in the New Year
The holidays often provide a welcome opportunity to take a break, remind each other how important they are to us, and rest. As the new year begins, though, it’s an opportunity to embrace new habits and set intentions for the next year that will take you – and your team – to the next level….
Human Resources
The Value of Engaged Employees
If you’re looking to improve your bottom line and your workplace culture, employee engagement is the place to start. When you’re aiming to increase employee engagement, however, it’s incredibly narrow to equate that with employee satisfaction or happiness, although an engaged employee may also be happy and satisfied at work. Employee engagement is the level of buy in…
Communication
Three Signs Your Communication is Ineffective
You’re not alone. Everyone struggles with communication challenges. In an age where everyone is connected and every friend, relative and brand is competing for attention, it can be nearly impossible to cut through the noise unless what you’re saying is sensational or controversial. In fact, most people think they’re doing a great job of communicating,…
Communication
The Top Communication Issue Businesses Face
We all have to communicate: with our friends, our families, our co-workers, our clients. Communication in the digital age is more of an art than an exact science. After all, everyone thinks they’re doing it effectively. Yet, more often than not, people miss the message. In fact, we’ve all experienced the frustration of thinking we’ve…
Business Goals
The Simple Trick to Stop Repeating Yourself
Monday morning staff meeting, you roll out a new and important employee procedure. You tell the story about what led to this procedure, you talk about it in detail, and you make it clear that this is a mandatory and immediate change. By Wednesday, though, your team has forgotten, and you find yourself repeating the…
Human Resources
The Solution for Workplace Frustration
We’ve all been there. The problems aren’t big, but they’re frequent and persistent. Each day, you head home feeling irritable, exhausted, and drained. When the road is bumpy with you team, frustration is an emotion that can overtake not just you, but your entire culture. Frustration in the workplace is a symptom of a bigger…
Small Business
The Biggest Challenge Facing Small Business Owners
As small business owners ourselves, we get it – ensuring that your customers and employees are happy with your business while maintaining an appropriate amount of growth and a healthy ROI can be a constant balancing act. Small business owners wear a number of hats and may function in a number of roles on their…
Business Goals
Transform Your Workplace Culture
When your company started, undoubtedly there were passionate, optimistic and visionary people who led the charge with an idea big enough that it could make a difference, and be profitable. As the years go on, though, the idealism of those first few years fade as you face the reality of the challenges all businesses face….
Business Goals
4 Myths Business Owners Should Stop Believing
When you own a business, you understand what it means to “figure it out.” You might not have the experience, education, or confidence in what you’re doing, but your business requires you to make it work and find a solution – no matter what. When you hit the threshold of success, it doesn’t really matter how…
Human Resources
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…
Communication
The Key to Breaking Through the Clutter
We experience it every day – everywhere we look, something is fighting for our attention. Billboards, phone notifications, junk mail, emails, memos, ads… for our own sanity, our brains begin to tune it all out. But, when that happens, we also start to miss the important bits – the critical messages, the key updates, or the opportunities to connect that…