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September 20, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Employee Crossing The Line? Remember Your A, B, C ‘s

Employee Crossing The Line? Remember Your A, B, C ‘s

Dealing with a difficult employee is about as exciting as pulling out your teeth with a set of rusty pliers. No matter how often you’ve been faced with inappropriate behaviorial issues, it’s all too easy to be taken aback by employees who cross the line at work.

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: dealing wit difficult employees, inappropriate employee behavior

September 18, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Should Your Intuition Influence Your Hiring Decision?

Should Your Intuition Influence Your Hiring Decision?

You stare at a resume or walk out of an interview and you have a feeling about this person. Your gut instinct is a firm “yes” or maybe a definite “no”.

Should you always “go with your gut” when hiring a new employee? What’s the harm?

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: hiring decision, interviewing techniques

September 14, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Eliminating Doubt: Gaining Confidence as a Manager

Eliminating Doubt: Gaining Confidence as a Manager

Do other managers seem to have high performing teams while you struggle to hold your team together? Do you sweat when you have to give your staff bad news or discipline a struggling employee? Learning to manage involves gaining the confidence you need to perform your job well.

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: How to communicate effectively, improving management skills, learning to manage

September 6, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

How Employee Health and Wellbeing Can Impact the Work Environment

How Employee Health and Wellbeing Can Impact the Work Environment

Employees are feeling the pinch of the double-dip recession, putting in longer hours and skipping lunches. However all of these extra hours are not making employees more productive; instead they are worn out and disillusioned by the mounting work.

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies, Workplace Safety Tagged With: Employee Benefits, employee health, employee well being

August 28, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

How to Increase Employee Accountability in the Workplace

How to Increase Employee Accountability in the Workplace

One of the key factors to the success of any business is how hard its employees work to surpass the goals of the company. In order for this to happen, however, the company’s employees should have a high level of accountability for the work they are doing.

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee accountability, HR Tips, Management Best Practices, Management Tips

August 27, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Top Tips on Holding an Interview

Top Tips on Holding an Interview

Arguably the most important stage of the recruitment and selection process is the interview.

The best interviews are those where the interviewer and the interviewee are both relaxed and able to get clear questions and answers across. Here are some key ways that you can start to learn the tools of the interviewers’ trade!

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: best management practices, Hiring Tips, HR Tips, Interview Tips, Job Interview

August 23, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Via: C&S

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Employee Performance, Employee Turnover, Employment Law, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Sexual Harrassment statistics

August 21, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Five Questions to Ask Before Sacrificing the Human Touch

Five Questions to Ask Before Sacrificing the Human Touch

When it comes to maximizing productivity within a business, automation has grown into its own pursuit. Replacing the human hand (and eliminating human error) with cloud software for tasks like running payroll and invoicing is a modern day equivalent of the cotton gin, taking once tedious, time-consuming tasks and handing them to a machine.

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Firing/Disciplinary Actions, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Management Best Practices

August 21, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Coaching Employees For Optimal Performance

Coaching Employees For Optimal Performance

There are the questions every manager should regularly be asking of themselves: how can I coach my employees to perform at their peak every day? What approach do I take to ensure my staff are playing to their strengths and addressing their areas of weakness?

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Employee Retention & Engagement, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: coaching tips, employee coaching, Management Tips

August 16, 2012 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

The Pros and Cons of HR Outsourcing for Small Businesses

The Pros and Cons of HR Outsourcing for Small Businesses

Small businesses sometimes struggle when it comes to meeting their HR needs. The time and effort that they want to spend on the business is focused elsewhere to ensure their company is staffed with the best and is meeting all necessary state and federal employment guidelines.

Filed Under: Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: best management practices, HR Outsourcing, HR Tips, human resources, Management Tips, small business

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