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November 12, 2019 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Build the Best Team for Your Small Business

Build the Best Team for Your Small Business

Is there any value in investing in the training and development of your employees? Some business owners are cynical when it comes to investing in staff because of the fear that their employee will leave the company before the investment in their employees’ development has paid off.  Yes, the fact that your employee may jump […]

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: building a team, Hiring Tips, Management Tips

January 18, 2019 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

Cross Training Staff – Doing the Right Thing For the Wrong Reasons

Cross Training Staff – Doing the Right Thing For the Wrong Reasons

Employers are routinely faced with the challenge of figuring out how to meet the productivity and financial goals of the company with less money and even less staff. Couple that with keeping employees stimulated in their roles and it all seems like a herculean task. Cross training staff is a simple but strategic way to […]

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees Tagged With: cross training staff, professional development of employees

November 17, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Office Meetings Do Not Have To Be A Productivity Time Drain If Done Right

Office Meetings Do Not Have To Be A Productivity Time Drain If Done Right

Four years is a lot of time to spend in meetings, but that’s how long the average staff member will spend sitting around a conference table during their working career. A study highlighted that employees spend 800 hours every year or 16 hours a week in meetings on average. If the average workweek is 40 […]

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee engagement tips, office productivity, productive employees, workplace stress

April 21, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Yes, You Can Engage and Motivate Your Employees without Raising their Pay

Yes, You Can Engage and Motivate Your Employees without Raising their Pay

To use a popular cultural vernacular – “let’s not get it twisted“! Money is and important incentive for employees, but it is not the holy grail of motivators for all or even most staff.  The key to motivating staff is putting your self in their shoes and coming up with realistic ways to show your […]

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee performance, engage employees, improve employee performance, motivate employees

March 31, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Must Read EEOC Trends

Must Read EEOC Trends

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and its Strategic Enforcement Plan did not fare well in the last couple of years. However, reasonable cause determinations were up in 2014. Furthermore, the EEOC lost a couple of major cases in court. The agency lost EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Education Corporation and EEOC v. Freeman. The first case […]

Filed Under: Employee Retention & Engagement, Employment Law, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: eeoc trends, employment law, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, labor cases

February 23, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

How to Coach Employees to Ensure Productivity in the Workplace

How to Coach Employees to Ensure Productivity in the Workplace

This guest post is courtesy of Grapevine Evaluations, a web-based software solution for performing employee evaluations of any size, at any level.  It is essential for any business to maintain high levels of productivity in the workplace, and it is up to the employer to train and motivate his/her staff sufficiently so that this productivity is […]

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee coaching, Employee Engagement, employee productivity, productive employees, small business productivity, workplace productivity

February 6, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

The Fine Line Between Being a Diverse and Inclusive Company and Illegal Hiring Practices

The Fine Line Between Being a Diverse and Inclusive Company and Illegal Hiring Practices

There is a very thin line between having a workforce that is all-inclusive by taking steps to ensure a diverse workforce versus potentially overstepping the boundary between creating a more diverse workforce and illegal discrimination of applicants and employees who do not fit the diversity descriptors most closely associated with diversity in the workplace:  Underrepresented […]

Filed Under: Diversity, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, hiring and recruitment, managing diversity

January 20, 2015 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Several States are Increasing Minimum Wage Thresholds

Several States are Increasing Minimum Wage Thresholds

Recent employee protests focused on increasing the minimum wage has sparked a growing trend in several states centered on increasing the minimum wage over the last several months. The minimum wage in a number of states in the U.S. has risen by as much as ninety cents, while the Federal minimum wage for federal workers […]

Filed Under: Employee Retention & Engagement, Fair Labor Standards/FLSA, Pay and Salary, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Employee Benefits, minimum wage, minimum wage increase, salary increase

December 18, 2014 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

Healthy, Happy Employees

Healthy, Happy Employees

Most business owners and HR departments know the saying that a happy employee is also a productive one. One well-known psychologist, Martin Seligman,claims that feeling of happiness is 60% dependent on your genetics and environment, while 40% depends on your attitude. The American Happiness Association offers similar numbers, saying 60% of a person’s happiness is […]

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Employee Engagement, employee management, Happy Employees, healthy employees, HR Tips, productive employees, small business tips

December 2, 2014 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

The Tax Implications of Giving Staff Holiday Gifts

The Tax Implications of Giving Staff Holiday Gifts

The holiday season is traditionally a time when many employers hand out cash bonuses, awards and non-monetary gifts to employees. If you are planning on gifting employees this year, make sure you are aware of all the tax implications when doing so. The Internal Revenue Service treats most cash gifts and awards as additional W-2 […]

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Employment Law, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: christmas bonus, Employee Benefits, employee bonus, Employee Satisfaction, fringe benefits, generous employer, holiday bonus, taxes on christmas bonus

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