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November 11, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Are You Promoting Your Employees for All the Wrong Reasons? The 411 on Employee Promotions

Are You Promoting Your Employees for All the Wrong Reasons? The 411 on Employee Promotions

Supporting and encouraging career development of your staff undoubtedly goes a long way towards increasing employee satisfaction and engagement.  And in most cases, it can certainly make you look good! But is your decision to move forward with employee promotions flawed?  Here are some reasons why you don’t want to promote you employees: As a […]

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee promotion guidelines, Employee Promotions

August 16, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Working Parents- What Employers Can Do To Ease The Load

Working Parents- What Employers Can Do To Ease The Load

You want your business to retain talented, productive individuals, but you may be overlooking the needs of an important segment of your workforce: working parents. Helping these employees achieve a work life balance can have a dramatic impact on morale and performance. How the Challenges of Working Parents Can Impact Your Business The obligations of […]

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: working parents, working spouse, worklife balance

August 8, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Guest Post: 4 Benefits of Keeping in Touch with Former Employees

Guest Post:  4 Benefits of Keeping in Touch with Former Employees

When a trusted and long-time employee quits, moving on to bigger and better things, your work environment may suffer a few days of sadness. Soon enough, however, a replacement comes in, and the world moves on. As an employer, it may initially make more sense to focus on your employees who are here to stay, […]

Filed Under: Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: former employees

July 29, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

The Remote Workforce: Tips for How to Manage Employees

The Remote Workforce: Tips for How to Manage Employees

Did you know that 45 million Americans work from home and another 24 million work from a client/customer work site? From employees working from home to sales staff in the next state, supervisors increasingly find themselves tasked with learning how to manage employees who work somewhere other than the corporate office. And though employees who […]

Filed Under: Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring Tagged With: employees working from home, managing a remote workforce, remote workforce, virtual employees, workforce

July 15, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

How To Reward Staff

How To Reward Staff

Transcript of Podcast # 26: How To Reward Employees Thanks for tuning in to Easy Small Business HR’s Employee Hiring and Managing Tips. Similar to episode #24, this podcast focuses on another very popular blog topic:  how to reward staff. I’m thrilled that so many small business owners and supervisors recognize how important it is to […]

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover Tagged With: Employee Retention, how to reward employees, increase employee motivation, reward staff

July 15, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

ESBHR Podcast # 26: How To Reward Employees

ESBHR Podcast # 26:  How To Reward Employees

One of the best, yet under-valued actions that you can take, whether you are the owner of a small business or a manager in a large corporation is reward your employees for a job well done.

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Podcast Tagged With: Employee rewards, how to reward employees, improve employee morale, increase employee motivation

May 24, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Workplace Drama? Employer’s Guide to Understanding Work Stress Reactions

Workplace Drama? Employer’s Guide to Understanding Work Stress Reactions

Does a worker react with all the drama of a five-year-old when they feel they’ve been treated unfairly? Does a staffer respond to a reprimand by being mean to co-workers? Work stress caused by feelings of unfair treatment can trigger a host of counterproductive reactions…

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies, Workplace Safety Tagged With: Employee Engagement, employee job satisfaction, Treating employees fairly, Work stress, workplace fairness

May 18, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

12 Things That Your Employees Don’t Like About You

12 Things That Your Employees Don’t Like About You

In my role as an employee relations consultant for both supervisors and employees at various companies, I’ve met with scores of workers who have voiced a litany of concerns about the things that they don’t like about their managers. The goal of this list below is not to pass judgment but…

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Employee Satisfaction, unhappy employees

April 27, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Finding the Key to Keeping Your Employees – Reducing Employee Turnover

Finding the Key to Keeping Your Employees – Reducing Employee Turnover

It’s estimated that employee turnover costs the average business owner 150 percent of the person’s salary. Between the hiring process and training, you put a lot of time and energy into finding the right people for your team. But, losing a talented and productive employee is a cost you can avoid.

Filed Under: Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover Tagged With: Employee Retention, Employee Turnover, how to retain employees, Retaining Employees

April 25, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 2 Comments

5 Employer Advantages To On The Job Training and Employee Development

5 Employer Advantages To On The Job Training and Employee Development

Are you a manager that has trouble understanding the value of on the job training for staff? There is the perception that there has to be a “need” to develop staff. It’s not unusual for some managers to reason that if there is not another job opportunity available…

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees Tagged With: Career Development, Career Development Plan for Employees, Employee Development

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