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How You Can Have Successful Employee Performance Reviews
By: Timber Tucker The end of the year brings many traditions and celebrations to employees’ lives with holiday parties and gift exchanges, but one tradition that is most often dreaded is the process of an employee performance review. So often, employees sit through or fill out performance reviews worried about what they say, and in [...]
TweetWhat Employers Can Do to Keep Their Best Employees
By: Tim Tucker The current economic climate has led to an interesting new trend in business. In a recent study by CareerBuilder, only 45 percent of employers saw employee retention as a problem, while 87 percent of employees are open to a new job opportunity or are actively seeking a new job. This extreme difference [...]
TweetLack of Time Management Skills Lead to Health Problems
By: Tim Tucker With the technology and innovation of smart phones, and easy access to work e-mail, social media, documents, and programs, today’s workforce now spends more time working after hours outside the office and less time worrying about their health. A recent study by the Society of Human Resource Management found that 70 percent [...]
TweetUntrained Employees Lose Companies Time and Money
By: Tim Tucker, Company leaders are in a place of great influence and responsibility, so if they lack training and knowledge in how to manage their own workflow, problems can spread quickly throughout an organization. Dr. Cubie King, a business professor at National University in San Diego, Calif., believes most employees desire to be the [...]
TweetBusiness Leaders Lose Six to Nine Hours to Disorganization
By: Tim Tucker Express Employment Professionals’ recent hiring trends survey of more than 18,000 business leaders brought to light some interesting statistics about time management. The survey confirmed what many in business have struggled with for years; there isn’t enough time in the day to accomplish everything. The survey found that 31 percent of leaders [...]
TweetBuilding Employee Morale Takes the Entire Team
By: Tim Tucker Henry Ford, founder of the century old Ford Motor Company, once said “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Ford was a great achiever because he realized the power of teamwork, where people working together can accomplish goals that would have been impossible to attain alone. [...]
TweetHigh Morale and Employee Performance Mirrors Efforts of Leaders
Do your employees seem less motivated? Does your work environment seem to be missing something? Are you losing talented employees? According to James K. Harter, Ph.D., Gallup’s chief scientist for workplace management, people leave companies because of factors that filter through the office from leadership. At least 75 percent of the reasons for voluntary turnover [...]
TweetHiring Right – Right Now
Hiring the right employees for your company can be crucial to the survival of your business and long-term success. And, in these economic times, companies can’t afford to make costly hiring errors. Charles Schwab, founder of a successful brokerage firm, once said “all successful employers are stalking men and women who will do the unusual, [...]
TweetHow Companies and Job-Seekers Can Get the Most Out of Working with Staffing Agencies
Did you know that each day, over three million people in the U.S. alone are working through a staffing company? Staffing companies help make the match between people looking for work and companies looking for great employees. Here are three benefits staffing can offer both companies and job seekers and tips to make sure you’re [...]
TweetRebuilding Your Business with a Contingent Workforce
Employers who have weathered the recession are preparing to rebuild their businesses, small- to large-size businesses alike. A growing trend companies are choosing to restore their companies to pre-recession measures is through contingent hiring. Contingent workers are individual workers who work part-time, under a contract for a fixed period of time or on a specific [...]
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