All indications are that our new President has in mind a "New Deal" when it comes to Presidential communications. He certainly knows his way around the technology. He fought ...
The VP of Operations still had no idea how to plan for 2009. Communication from the top was as clear as mud. The company budget was supposed to be finalized by year’s end -- yet ...
With the high cost of food, home energy prices spiking, flat wages, mortgage woes, government bailouts, and the pending presidential election, the minds of the American workforce ...
What is an equality policy?
An equality policy is a business document that outlines a company's position on equality in the workplace. This is important - discrimination ...
There will always come a time when managers will be faced with the task of firing an employee. This is an uncomfortable experience for all parties involved. Depending on the ...
In a recent workshop I conducted on "The Art of Dealing with Difficult People", we spent some time discussing terminations. If you've ever had to terminate someone, you know how ...
Great service companies share common beliefs about the importance of culture, behaviors, people, and relationships. These beliefs manifest themselves in different ways, but they ...
Baby Boomers are those people who were born between 1946 and 1964, representing 76 million individuals. The sheer magnitude of the number of births during this period has had a ...
In the College Student Career Confidence Survey, 61% of college students said they expected to be with their first employer for less than 3 years. 16% expect to change jobs as ...
Employers should ensure that all of their employees possess a good background given that it is the later which can break or make the name of the company. There are issues that ...
I’m told that many, even most, companies maintain thick employee handbooks jam-packed with all shapes and types of rules -- rules about when you come to work and when you leave, ...
No matter if you have performance reviews at the end of the year or around an employee’s anniversary date, performance reviews are extremely important for employees. Employees ...
By Christine Comaford-Lynch
Author of Rules for Renegades
Great people can make a mediocre product a success. But mediocre people can make a great product a disaster. ...
Eight months ago I was asked by an organization to find out what was causing the most stress for their managers and to come up with a strategy to resolve it. During the first five ...
Negotiation is a big part of the business world. Every day, businessmen and women negotiate to close big deals. However, negotiation is also used to solve disputes between one ...
The disagreement between people is inevitable however if it's not resolved it can lead to a complete breakdown in communication. You need to accept that the issues the other ...
The world of business is changing dramatically. There was a time in corporate America when employees were closely connected with their employers – when they had a sense of ...
Hiring is like a game of strategy. If you don’t play this game well, with the right strategy, you might as well be rolling dice or spinning a roulette wheel. The ball goes just ...
Going global may sound poetic; going global may sound like inspiring dreams, but success as a global enterprise is impossible if organizations are poorly equipped. The statement ...
