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Be Clear and Concise When You Hire
A client called me recently to tell me his company was growing and that he needed to re-hire some employees he had laid off at the beginning of 2009. Given his current growth and the possibility of additional expansion in 2010, he thought it was time to brush off the company's hiring letter and discuss the use of a non-disclosure agreement for key employees.

Shatter Your Glass Ceiling with an Internet Business
Here is an irrefutable fact of life-if you are an employee, there is a glass ceiling looming severely over everything you do. It doesn’t matter what industry you work in, what company you work for, or what job you do. If you are not self-employed, you will ultimately come up against a glass ceiling of one form or another.

YOUR EMPLOYEE IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT CUSTOMER

The South Florida market is comprised of many small- to medium-sized “service” businesses. I look at these organizations and wonder if they are a product of their product. To be truly successful, a business really has to serve two customer bases. The customer base most focused on is typically the revenue-generating one. However, considering cause and effect, the internal customer (the employee) should be on at least an equal footing with the external customer. This leads me to a question to those of you who lead or manage people: If you considered the people that worked for you as your largest and most important customers, would you behave or see them any differently than you do today?

Is Your Company Wasting Its Training Dollars

Too often the Chief Human Resource Officer or Director of Training and Development calls to ask for a price to conduct a training session before giving enough thought to defining the company’s real issues at hand and how to best address them. The main issue is always how to maximize some aspect of a company’s growth performance, so before one can decide on whether to invest in training, one must first determine whether that training will hit the intended target.

Employee Motivation Programs - Top Reasons Incentives Work

Employee motivation programs - more than likely you have know of them, however if you are not implementing them inside your small business, you are making a dangerous mistake. You see, while you will observe that these reward programs will require a monetary investment on your part, they might bring you incredible returns in the extended run. From incentives to unique prize giveaways, there are so many numerous ideas that you might get your own employee motivation program started and here are a few of the best reasons to do so.

Improving Your Employee Asset
If you need to lower your costs, improve your quality, increase production and/or reduce in-process time then perhaps you need to revisit how you're maximizing your biggest asset . . . the people you work with and through.

Active Duty or Retired Military (Or Dependents) Owning a Business
Military people and their dependents have a tough time owning a business because they move so often. There are answers to this challenge all based around OPM (Other People's Money) and the Internet.

Early To Bed - Early To Rise!
Do you wonder where the time goes in your day. Why are some people able to accomplish so much and yet you don't feel that you get anything done?

Why NonCompete Means Dont Lie Cheat or Steal
Scott Kirsner's December 30, 2007 column in the business pages of the Boston Globe caught my eye that morning. His premise... "Why non-compete means 'don't thrive'"... caused me to revisit a favorite client topic... non-compete agreements. They are the subject of more questions, comments and complaints among my small business clients than almost any other, and for a good reason.

Not Every Employer or Employee Needs a Non-Compete!

It is truly rewarding to write an article which foments discussion... and it doesn't matter whether we agree or disagree, simply that we talk about something which might be important to your business. However, the end result of a non-compete discussion should not necessarily be to foist one of these agreements on every employee. Rather, it should prompt you to think through which of your long-time key employees (or new hires) are in a position to harm your business if they leave tomorrow and join or open a competing company.

ARE YOU MANAGING FOR RESULTS

If you manage others in your organization, you are responsible for identifying business objectives, establishing a clear set of expected outcomes, creating policies and procedures to guide daily activities, aligning appropriate resources, and providing the development and support necessary to maximize the likelihood that expected outcomes are achieved. How would you grade yourself in all of these areas?

Comprehending and Strengthening Your Staff's Conscience and Productivity
Looking to learn how to understand and strengthen your staff's conscience to enhance productivity and company profitability? Read on to learn about how you can determine the demise of a person's conscience and engage them in a mutual performance accountability process to strengthen their conscience and their character and performance.

Hire Only The Best People
Are you interested in learning about ten keys to hiring and retaining ONLY the top 10% performers of high character and commitment? Do you want customer-satisfying employees one and all? Read on to discover the steps you can take to hire only the best!

Consequences of Embracing Technology
As companies embrace various technologies to serve guests better, increase productivity, or work more efficiently, employers must realize that these systems must work correctly ---- or there will be bottom line consequences.

Employee vs. Independent Contractor: Ignore This at Your Peril!
It's been almost two years since I wrote to warn you about the perils of hiring "independent contractors" under the 2004 amendments to the Massachusetts law. Since then, the status has not improved and litigation has begun to shape its future. Let's review the current rules in Massachusetts.

No One Should Be Indispensable... So Plan For the Unexpected
Recently, a client called me in somewhat of a panic mode. It seems that a key designer in their engineering firm had arrived that morning, sat down across the desk from her boss, and tendered her resignation... effective immediately! Could they prevent the departure? Should they sue? What else could they do?

The Employee Mindset
The mindset of an employee is much different than that of the entrepreneur. With no one to tell you what to do and how to do it may be difficult but can also be very rewarding.

The #2 Interview Question That Candidates Find Most Difficult
Knowing what interview questions are likely to be asked is half the battle – the other half is answering them in a way that lands you the job.

Is Customer Service A Thing Of The Past?
The economy is bad and companies are losing money left and right. Wouldn’t you think one of their top priorities would be amazing customer service? Customer service is a means for a company to stand out and encourage people to buy from them instead of their competitors.

The Most Important Sales Leadership Discipline to Motivating Sales Teams

Sales team motivation can be an easy task, especially when appropriate disciplines are demonstrated by the sales leader. That is when employee motivation happens naturally. It is kind of like “monkey see, monkey do” approach. Motivation, no matter if it is self motivation or employee motivation, is defined as a motive to act. What motivates you and gets you to act, does not necessarily mean it will work for others, or lead to employee motivation. No one can motivate you, only you can motivate yourself. You cannot motivate others. As a sales team leader all you can do is demonstrate appropriate behaviours and create an environment where employees motivate themselves

Workplace Coaching: Selecting a Coach
When choosing a coach for your employees, you have before you a number of options. Selecting the wrong coach can lead to disaster. Use the pointers in this article to help you decide on who would make an effective coach in your workplace.

Process Mapping: Ten Tips for Success
Mapping your organization’s processes makes good business sense as well as lays the foundation for a motivated and productive workforce. Leslie Allan shows you how you can use process mapping to engage your employees and why it works so effectively.

Improve Your Training Sessions with the Five Rights of Training
All trainers need to take stock occasionally of how they are going. Are your training sessions as effective as they could be? Use these Five Rights of training to help you review where your training programs could be missing the mark.

Effective Managers Understand Psychology
Novice managers often struggle to get the best out of their people because they labor under a one-dimensional view of what motivates their employees. In this article, Leslie Allan illustrates how a little psychology can return huge dividends.

Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold?

Engaged Employees Increase Bottom Line Performance
New research shows close to half of today's employees are not happy at work, and the cost to employers is substantial.

Should I Keep an Employee I Don't Trust?
My first response would be, "What don't you trust?" And is it possible that you as the leader are feeding the distrust.

How to get rid of the employee that doesn’t fit

He was tall, dark and handsome and a great lover. From the outside, he appeared to be the ideal date and partner. But after 3 months of living together, Jenny realised that her ideal mate was less than ideal. Whilst he could turn on a charming personality, he liked drinking with the boys each night while she preferred walks in the country. She liked a tidy house and he preferred to live in a mess. Like Jenny, have you ever hired someone who appeared to have all their technical skills for the job, but when put in the work environment turned out to be a complete nightmare? Maybe their CV read perfectly but they did not live up to their billing? If so, read on.

How to get an employee to resign
When faced with a poor performing employee, the reaction of a number of employers is to think of an ingenious way to encourage that employee to resign. After all, it saves all the hassle of going through a performance management process, and if they resign then there is no comeback, right? Or maybe that is not the case.

Is Your Management Causing Employee Issues and Slow Business Growth?
Employee issues are most often symptoms of inconsistent or failing management; deal with supervisor/manager competency and impact and you not only have engaged employees but also an effective, productive and efficient organization.

IT Employees―Least Engaged…Again
New report finds many organizations view IT workers, especially those at the helpdesk and maintenance levels, as necessary commodities that are not critical to the organization’s mission or strategy.

Small Business Owners Can't Hire Good Staff
When you are a small business owner, the dilemma is quite ironic. On the one hand you need good people, and on the other, you know good people want to receive good pay. That is easier said than done when you are on a tight budget!

Errors in Job Placement: the Four Categories of Employment
Employers are faced with many challenges including determining what category the people they hire fall into. Workers are divided by the IRS into four categories: independent contractors, common-law employees, statutory employees, and statutory nonemployees.

Safeguard Business Data - Value Advantage of Integrating Logical Access on an Employee ID Badge
Many large corporations and government agencies have found the cost savings, security and employee convenience very compelling to integrate logical access into the employee badge. However, the two biggest barriers in getting small to medium size businesses, clinics and agencies to follow suit have been: Awareness and Cost.

For Employees Only
Ever been disappointed with your year-end bonus? Ever felt like you got less than you deserved? Betsey addresses this issue with a real life example.

Are You Trying To Make Pigs Fly (or Expecting Employees to Do Things They’re Not Cut Out to Do)?
Do you employees fail to live up to your expectations? Are they aware of your expectations? Or are you trying to make pigs fly?

Employee vs Independent Contractor

If you own a small business or are thinking about starting one, you will need to have a good understanding of the difference between a regular W-2 employee and a 1099 independent contract. It is usually more beneficial for an employer to have a contractor rather than an employee because the employer does not have to spend the time and effort to do payroll for that worker. Unfortunately, you don't get to just choose which status you put a worker into. The IRS forces you to choose one status or the other based on your relationship with a worker. The more supervision you have over a worker, the more likely it is that the worker should be a W-2 employee. The more independence they have, the more likely it is that they should be a 1099 contractor.

FOUR COMMON SITUATIONS AND HOW TO USE OUTCOME THINKING® TO SOLVE THEM
First Situation HOW TO GET ANSWERS FROM AN UNRESPONSIVE PERSON VIA VOICE MAIL

Are You Ready for New Business?
Despite the gloom and doom which seems to surround us these days like a miasma that won't lift, small business owners are seeing their hard work and nose-to-the-grindstone efforts pay off in incremental new business.

What Is Wrong with Performance Appraisals?
How effective are organizations at driving superior performance from their employees? If we are to believe human resources professionals, the answer is that our performance management systems are failing to make the grade. This is the sobering conclusion from Sibson Consulting\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s worldwide survey.

5 Fundamentals of a Well-Drafted Employment Handbook
Providing a well written employment handbook is critical for all present-day employers. Whether the company is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 firm or a small family owned repair shop, having employment policies documented is something a company cannot survive without.

Performance Appraisals and Compensation: A Deadly Mix
The annual jostling for pay rises based on employee performance is often described as ineffective by HR professionals, largely dreaded by managers and treated with suspicion by employees. So why do organizations still engage in this annual exercise?

Employee Performance Management: Time to Reinvent the Wheel
Performance-management systems are broken at the majority of companies in every corner in the world. By teasing apart results of a recent worldwide survey of HR professionals, we've seen how evaluations are viewed as a joke by employees, a waste of time by many managers and a non-actionable talking point by some senior executives.

Few Points To Consider Concerning Resource Planning Software & Its Advantages To Organizations
The reason behind a developing resource planning software is that it goes a long way in increasing the profits of the company with efficient & effective management.

How Top Management Views Performance Appraisal Systems
How important is your leadership team's support of the performance management system in your organization? A recent study into the views of HR professionals towards their appraisal system sheds interesting light on the value of top level endorsement.

How to Calm Disruptive Workplaces
Recently I was reading a letter to the editor in a business publication directed at small business owners. The letter, from a business owner, stated that he had two principals, a CFO and VP who seemed to always be at odds. He was concerned over the disruption in his business even though these two individuals were very productive.

Creating a Vision and a Mission: A Co-Created And Co-Shared Experience
The VM Vacuum process works because all the employees are involved in co-creating the vision and are all a key and equal part of the visioning process. When a vision is co-created in this way, it becomes co-shared and people believe in it… it contains a part of them, so naturally, it becomes believable, realistic and do-able.

"I'm Pregnant".......
An overview of the changes to maternity legislation since April 2007

Scheduling Resources For Organizations Made Amazing
Budget tracking allows you to see how much and where it’s being spent. For a business owner this information is invaluable because you will be able to see where the money is being wasted or utilized.

The Right Way to Give Promotions
There is a right and wrong way to promote employees. Being too lax in your decision making could be disastrous for your company. Read how to successfully promote your employees.

Why Should We Use A Resource Scheduling Software For Exceptional Company Performance
Budget tracking facilitates a user to view how and where it’s being spent. This information is invaluable for business owners because they will be able to see whether the money is being utilized or not.

Managing a Salon or Spa Employee Performance Problem
Learn the best way to manage your salon spa team to success and reduce your own management stress

Technology Versus Managing
This article is probably going to step on some toes. Many business people are becoming so focused on the “new” tools related to the internet/cyber world that they are no longer focused on the “old” solid management principles.

Scheduling Resources By Organizations Is Easy
A central database scheduling system that allows everyone in an organization to see what is happening with meeting rooms and conference venues.

Why Should We Use A Resource Scheduling Software For Peak Business Output
A central database scheduling system that allows everyone in an organization to see what is happening with meeting rooms and conference venues.

A Few Points To Know About Resource Planning Software & Its Advantages To Organizations
The reason for the growing popularity of this planning software is that it goes a long way in increasing the profitability of the company.

Make Performance Reviews Really Count
Some bosses are afraid to reprimand, others are uncomfortable giving positive reinforcement. Both tasks are necessary and if performed in an unsatisfactory way can hurt your relationship with your employees.

Some Points To Consider Concerning Resource Planning Software & Its Advantages To Organizations
The reason behind the growth of a resource planning software is that it goes a long way in increasing the profitability of the company with efficient management.

Fostering Truth Telling: Six Tips for Developing A High Integrity Staff
When you foster truth telling in your company, it creates the critical trust needed to enhance the productivity of your staff members and the loyalty of your customers. Read on and discover six tips that will help you develop a high integrity staff.

Buy Efficient Resource Planning Software Must For Organizational Success
Planning therefore is the key factor for any business personnel. Wealth arrangement is the procedure and process of determining in advance what the business is required to accomplish.

How to Increase Employee Productivity?
Increasing employee productivity is one of the surest ways towards increased profit. It is also a competitive differentiator, which can lead to increased market share. From the employee perspective - and it may not be intuitive - it is an excellent way of protecting their jobs. Learn how a few, simple techniques can help improve productivity without any (or minimal) investments.

Buy Efficient Resource Planning Software A Must For Organizational Success
Resource Planning is the key factor for any business personnel. Wealth arrangement is the procedure and process of determining in advance what the business is required to accomplish.

Indiana Joins as 23rd Right to Work State
With Indiana recently becoming the 23rd state to successfully pass Right to Work legislation, more debates are popping up with regard to the efficacy of this policy. Much of the debate stems around the surface-level pros and cons of the law and how they might affect the state's economy in terms of employment and job creation.

Why Collaborative Resource Planning Software Must For Organizational Success
Resource Planning is the key factor for any business personnel. Wealth arrangement is the procedure and process of determining in advance what the business is required to accomplish.

Why Companies Should Use Configurable Resource Planning Software Vs Traditional Scheduling
With the resource planning software, it is not mandatory for the employer to be at the workplace. This is because the employer can be able to monitor the moves of the staff from any location.

Learning To Reduce Redundancy By Using An Efficient Resource Planning Software Program On The Job Online
Choosing a collaborative resource planning software with good basic capabilities, easy to use instructions and support, and solid backup capabilities are essential. You may not require more options, but you will need the basics.

Public Relations Agencies

A recent HolmesReport study came out with the 50 Best Public Relations Agencies To Work For, but what makes them so might surprise you. They aren’t the firms that offer the fattest pay cheques and the biggest offices, or the ones that require the fewest work hours. Instead, they are the firms that have been shown to give their staff stimulating work, and reward their efforts with unique, innovative incentives.

The Art of Leadership: Rewarding Excellence

Great leaders know that they cannot expect their employees to do their best work, day after day, year after year, without some sort of meaningful acknowledgement. They understand that to get the most from their people, they’ve got to recognize their accomplishments in ways that have an impact, that serve to reinforce hard work and encourage continued creativity and innovation. Here are a few effective ways to reward employee excellence.

Collaboration & Team Building for Sales Force Management Growth
Collaboration & Team Building: Adding Value to Your Employees

Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to take ownership of worklife balance discussion

The mantra of the late 90’s and the first decade of the 21st century is “Be proactive.” And corporations are doing a fine job of being proactive in claiming ownership of the “work-life” discussion. They’re doing this because when they launch the discussion first, they get to define the parameters—they get to make the rules. Entrepreneurs and small business owners should not try to emulate what large corporations do. Instead, you should look towards owning your own work-life discussion.

Keep It Simple
The world is a pretty hectic place these days, and things are moving faster and becoming more complicated every day. The more we can step back and break down the complexities of everyday life into some basic, simple steps, the easier it becomes to manage them and to excel at them. This article explains some of the basics on how to do just that, Keep It Simple!

Keep It Simple
The world is a pretty hectic place these days, and things are moving faster and becoming more complicated every day. The more we can step back and break down the complexities of everyday life into some basic, simple steps, the easier it becomes to manage them and to excel at them. This article explains some of the basics on how to do just that, Keep It Simple!

Make It Personal

How I learned to loosen the reins, take my own medicine and ensure that my employees and customers develop an emotional bond with my company. The author, a small business owner, describes how he was able to take the consulting principles that his firm expounds upon to external clients and turn them within to help his own company grow stronger. The lesson, as always, is that engaged, empowered employees will help a company grow more than any infusion of capital. The article is written in the first person.

Improving the Performance Gap of New Employees
The news is full of stories about talent management, the importance of getting and keeping the “right” employees, and the impending lack of employees as the workforce changes. With these dire warnings come many ways to select and retain employees.

GROW TOMORROW’S LEADERS TODAY

A critical factor in the leadership development of your high potential(HIPO) talent is the provision of customised development plans. Research conducted by the Corporate Leadership Council1 in 2005 showed that, while the presence or absence of a development plan seems to have no impact on motivation or retention of highly talented employees, the quality of a development plan (if present) in terms of being customised to the individual and being achievable has a large impact on motivation and retention. Indeed, the opposite also holds true – a development plan that is not credible negatively impacts motivation and retention.

Expatriate Transfer Advisor
Continuous care for your expatriate employees around the world!

Embezzlement: Beware of an Inside Job
Many small businesses have been victims of embezzlement by one of its key employees but perhaps what’s even more disturbing than those crimes is that embezzlers caught with their hands in the till typically aren’t prosecuted. Instead they are fired and end up surfacing at another business where the cycle perpetuates itself.

Performance Appraisal More Powerful with a ResultsOriented Job Description

Confronting employee performance problems is always tricky, but especially when the conversation deteriorates into personal behaviors and personality issues. Unfortunately, most appraisal forms are a hindrance since they include the very personal traits (initiative, attitude. etc.) that should be avoided. The solution is to keep appraisal discussions focused on objective job requirements, especially with a Results-Oriented Job Description.

Appealing As Part Of Performance Managment
Even with a well designed and implemented performance management process, there may be situations when an employee has a serious difference of opinion with the manager about his or her performance assessment.

Reviewing The Perfomance Management Effectiveness
How can we make sure that the performance management process we have designed has yielded the outcomes that we planned? Obviously, we cannot sit back and relax assuming it had before we check some parameters and standards.

Monitoring The Performance Management Process
For a performance management process to be effective, progress must be continuously monitored. Monitoring means developing a system that enables the organization to follow up on the progress of its projects and how its employees are behaving on the doing their jobs. A good monitoring system should be driven by the following directions:

A Checklist For Performance Managment Planning
The planning phase of performance management is vital in setting the goals and direction of that critical process. It might help to develop a checklist of the things an appraisor would need to have in place before, during, and after the appraisal starts. The following checklist may be used as a guide:

Smart Planning For Performance Managment
If you have just designed a new performance management process for your organization or if you've made changes to an existing process, you will need to hold information sessions with all staff about the new system before implementing it. This will increase employee buy-in into the process and avoid resentment and confusion.

Designing A Performance Management System
The design of a performance management system requires you to think about the features that would make performance management effective in your workplace. The goal is to design a performance management process that provides an accurate picture of each employee's accomplishments.

Joint Ventures - Don't Sell Your Time
When you sell your time, you sell your life. Maybe it’s time for your personal Independence Day.

Employee Communication is the Secret to Business Success
Business surveys consistently show us that poor workplace communication is a major source of employee dissatisfaction. The repercussions of this include not just low employee morale. Employee productivity suffers, along with a range of other business performance indicators. Are you looking in the right places in fixing your organization’s communication problems?

Employer successfully questions an employee’s medical certificate
In a recent case before the Federal Magistrates Court it was determined that the sacking of an employee for not attending work was lawful, despite the fact that the employee had a medical certificate which permitted the employee to not attend work.

Five Secrets to Becoming the Perfect Employee That Everyone Wants – Part One
With ever increasing deadlines, decreasing resources, and changing workplaces, sometimes it can be challenging to be a good employee, much less a perfect employee. The employee who can rise above the everyday problems and embrace challenges will be the person that every employer wants. The following are five secrets to being the perfect employee everyone wants.

Small Business Employee Policies Series: Probationary Period
The probationary period, also called an orientation and review period is essentially a trial period for both you and your new employee to determine whether the job match is a good one. It is essential that you have an employee policy in place that will support the need to terminate your employee if job related issues do occur during the early stages of your new staff members’ employment.

Profit Growth Strategy # 11 For Virtual Assistants
Dozens of books have been written on the selection process for employees. The experts recommend a variety of tactics and strategies that ensure the prospective employee has the skills for the job and is the right fit for the culture of the organization. One less than stellar employee can damage the team. For a small entrepreneur, one bad employee could destroy the company’s reputation.

What to do when an employee steals your IP
Losing a valuable client hurts. Losing that client to a former employee, on the other hand, gives you a sickening feeling in your stomach, particularly when that employee told you they weren’t leaving to work for a competitor. So when you find out that an employee has done precisely that what do you do?

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