The ability to prioritize is a valuable skill. If you have a problem with figuring out what is important vs. what is urgent, your work day is going to feel chaotic! “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Most employers pay lots of attention to customer experience, but making employee experience a priority is a more recent development. Old school thinking is that employees are lucky to have a job no matter what their work environment is. After all, most of us need to make a living and unemployment was high for a long time. Many employers just weren’t too concerned
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Are you one of those people who knew what you wanted to do, invested in your education and landed a great job? Do you want to move forward in your career by working hard and using your work ethic to stand out? In todays’ work environment, you may be a prime candidate for job burnout.
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If you have a lot of turnover, your company may be experiencing job-hopping. It has become the norm for the average millennial to change jobs more frequently. With unemployment lower and wages stagnant, it just makes sense for employees to move forward in their career by
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Your job descriptions and interview questions are probably pretty specific about the hard skills you need to fill your positions. You may even throw in some adjectives about being organized, focused and a multitude of other attributes you value in an employee. But how detailed are you when it comes to the soft skills that make your employees priceless assets?
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Whether you are in the planning stages of a start-up or expanding and bringing on partners into an existing company, are you absolutely sure the person you will be trusting with your business is all they portray themselves to be? A high percentage of people embellish, omit and downright lie
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In today’s business environment, adapting to change is one of the key components to business growth and frequently its very survival! This applies to management in the acceptance of needing to keep up with technology and product/service offerings that keep them competitive experts in their industry. It also applies to the employees that need to follow through and use the new
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When it comes to choices and information, the customer has the upper hand! Not only do they have a lot of choices of who to do business with, they have huge amounts of information available and have the ability to alter perception about your company through reviews and social media. Even before
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What causes your stress at work? Have you ever taken the time to analyze what throws you off your game and causes you to feel that physical discomfort that is the stress response? When you experience stress, you feel the “fight-or-flight” response. This makes your heart rate increase
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With the growing opioid epidemic, more and more employers are concerned about the effect it will have on their company if employees are abusing prescription pain killers. You may want to add this drug testing to your pre-employment routine, but how do you stay in legal compliance?
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