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How Well Do Employers Really Know What Their Staff Want?
A major problem for business owners and employers today is getting the best employees and then keeping them. Sounds easy, but any employer will tell you that these activities take up the most time and have the biggest impact on business results. So how do you go about retaining the good people once you’ve found them? Understanding what your employees want from a... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
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A major problem for business owners and employers today is getting the best employees and then keeping them. Sounds easy, but any employer will tell you that these activities take up the most time and have the biggest impact on business results. So how do you go about retaining the good people once you’ve found them? Understanding what your employees want from a... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
The Top 10 Tips for Dealing with Problem Behavior in the Workplace
I personally struggle with the term “managing people", because I firmly believe that people cannot be managed – only processes and systems can. How many times have you heard it said – “Why won’t my employees just do as they are asked?" Despite all our best efforts at “managing", we have very little control over other people’s actions, including the... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
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I personally struggle with the term “managing people", because I firmly believe that people cannot be managed – only processes and systems can. How many times have you heard it said – “Why won’t my employees just do as they are asked?" Despite all our best efforts at “managing", we have very little control over other people’s actions, including the... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
Business Essentials – Vision & Mission
For any business to succeed, it must know what it is about. It must be able to clearly describe why it is there, and what it is there to achieve. Developing a vision and mission statement is a way of articulating these ideas to yourself, your customers, your employees, and to the world at large. A Business Vision that Inspires! If you don’t know where you are heading, then you can make any choice and go in any... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
For any business to succeed, it must know what it is about. It must be able to clearly describe why it is there, and what it is there to achieve. Developing a vision and mission statement is a way of articulating these ideas to yourself, your customers, your employees, and to the world at large. A Business Vision that Inspires! If you don’t know where you are heading, then you can make any choice and go in any... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
Increase your Business Performance by Setting Performance Standards and Expectations for your Employees
The success of your business is directly related to the commitment and productivity of the people who work in your business. And yet it is generally recognized that 60% of employees, or more, are underutilized in their roles at work. (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
The success of your business is directly related to the commitment and productivity of the people who work in your business. And yet it is generally recognized that 60% of employees, or more, are underutilized in their roles at work. (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
10 Critical Elements of a Successful Business
The rules that a successful business operate by today are very different from the rules of 20 to 30 years ago. The widespread use of technology has dramatically cut response times and elevated customer expectations of service. Competitive advantage is the catch cry, but most business owners struggle to articulate what their point of difference is. The statistics are well known: a staggering 40% of all new... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
The rules that a successful business operate by today are very different from the rules of 20 to 30 years ago. The widespread use of technology has dramatically cut response times and elevated customer expectations of service. Competitive advantage is the catch cry, but most business owners struggle to articulate what their point of difference is. The statistics are well known: a staggering 40% of all new... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
Create More Head Space – the Art of Simplification
People’s lives today are jam-packed with great projects, ideas, to-do lists, errands, things we should do, things we could do, duties and obligations. No surprise then, that many of us feel we barely have time to do the things we have to do (or think we have to do), let alone spare time for fitting in anything extra. Why do we insist on keeping ourselves so busy? We have trained ourselves to... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
People’s lives today are jam-packed with great projects, ideas, to-do lists, errands, things we should do, things we could do, duties and obligations. No surprise then, that many of us feel we barely have time to do the things we have to do (or think we have to do), let alone spare time for fitting in anything extra. Why do we insist on keeping ourselves so busy? We have trained ourselves to... (posted by Megan 5 years 294 days ago.)
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