What’s more important in an employee: experience or potential? Your answer will no doubt be a direct reflection of your past experiences with employees. If you’ve been in a management …
How to Fall in Love with Your Job Again…or Move on if It’s Not Meant to Be
Is it safe to say you’ve fallen out of love with your job? A considerable percentage of people will answer this question with a hearty “yes.” Falling out of love …
3 Signs You’re an Ineffective Manager, and What to Do About It
Have you ever had a manager whom you feared or disliked? If so, you understand the misery of working under an ineffective manager. More than likely, this person was lacking …
Beware! These 4 Mistakes Can Get You Fired.
Do you ever worry about being fired from your job? It’s probable that all employed individuals experience this fear occasionally. Many times, such a fear has no logical basis. Other …
How to Keep Employees from Quitting After the New Year
Have you noticed that employees tend to quit shortly after the New Year? If you’ve ever felt frustrated or stumped by this, you are not alone; keeping employees on board …
The Secret to Succeeding In Your Job Search
Did you know that there is a secret to succeeding in your job search? The secret has nothing to do with connections, and not as much to do with experience …
10 Ways to Make Your Employees Like You in 2017
Do you want your employees to like you? A better question is “what manager doesn’t want his or her employees’ admiration?” Thankfully, luck has nothing to do with whether or …
How THIS Can Be the Year You Land Your Dream Job
“This will be the year that I land my dream job.” Have you ever uttered this statement before only to not end up finding your desired position within the year? …
How to Tell an Employee to Dress More Professionally
“We need to talk about the way you dress when you are at work.” This is a statement that no manager wants to say to an employee. Because the topic …
3 Ways to Expertly Communicate with Prospective Employers
As a job seeker, would you like to have the ability to expertly communicate with prospective employers? If so, here’s some great news: you can! Becoming a skilled communicator is …
5 Signs You Should Move an Employee Into Management
Moving an employee into a management position is no small thing. Sometimes it is done out of desperation/a lack of personnel. In these cases, company leaders will often find the …
Fear Is Your Friend — It Can Help You Land a Job!
Have you ever heard the saying, “Fear is not your friend”? Most of us have, and in most cases, it’s true. Fear can hold you back from pursuing relationships and …
Are You Too Hard On Your Employees?
Every manager struggles to find the balance between not being too hard on his or her employees and maintaining high standards for performance. While some managers easily understand how to …
Millennials, Here are 3 Ways You Can Up Your Game at Work
There is no shortage of jokes about Millennials’ deficiencies in the workplace. It is practically unarguable that individuals from this generation have been pigeonholed as irresponsible employees. There are employers …
Why You Should Develop Leadership Qualities in Baby Boomer Employees
Baby Boomers, once the largest generation in the workforce, are beginning to make their exit from the workplace. Still, a percentage of even the oldest of this group will remain …
How to Position Yourself for a Promotion at Work
Do you want to get promoted? Not everyone does, but when the desire for promotion is there, it is often very strong. Some people say they want to be promoted …
Set Your Small Business Up for BIG Success
Success is coveted in the business world. Apart from success, a company is not worth much, literally or figuratively. Business leaders know this and invest their blood, sweat, and tears …
Managers, Fight Gender Bias with These Tech Tools
Gender bias has existed in the workplace since the workplace came into existence. The issue of gender inequality has improved with each decade, but it is still present. For example, …
How to Maintain Your Sanity While Unemployed or in Transition at Work
Job searching and other work-related issues cause major mental strain. The average person probably has no idea just how much stress these issues trigger. The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale …
3 Tips for Helping Your Employees Get Along
As a manager, how full is your plate at work? More than likely, it’s so full that you barely have time to complete all your tasks each day. Like most …
Be More Productive at Work by Making Your Brain Chemicals Work for You
What makes a person productive at work? Is it a certain personality type, work ethic, willpower, or something else? Scientists think it may partially be brain chemistry. According to these …