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April 15, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 2 Comments

Tracking Employee Time: Employer Responsibilities

Tracking Employee Time: Employer Responsibilities

As an employer, you know that you’re responsible for keeping a variety of records, and that includes records regarding employees time. But exactly what does that mean? This FAQ guide is designed to help small business owners figure out the what’s, why’s, and how’s…

Filed Under: Fair Labor Standards/FLSA, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: attendance time tracking, employees time, Online time clocks, responsibility of employer, time tracking software

April 14, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 2 Comments

Does Workplace Stress Affect Your Bottom Line?

Does Workplace Stress Affect Your Bottom Line?

As a small business owner or manager, you know how much you feel the strain of workplace stress. Your employees are just as vulnerable. More than 75% of Americans report they experience anxiety over job-related issues, according to the Everest College/Harris Interactive 2011 Work Stress Survey.

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 Stress, signs of employee stress, Stress at Work, workplace stress

April 11, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 2 Comments

New Hire Checklist – An Onboarding Best Practice

New Hire Checklist – An Onboarding Best Practice

Let’s go over a new hire checklist and pre-orientation plan for your new hire. The new hire checklist is a tool that you can use to ensure that you don’t miss any important paperwork relating to your new employee and to ensure that your employee gets the information that they need on their first few days of working with you.

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: hiring practices, New Hire Checklist, Onboarding best practices

April 8, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Making The Job Offer- How To Hire An Employee

Making The Job Offer- How To Hire An Employee

Don’t play games with the candidate by offering an artificially low salary just to see if you can get away with it. Whenever possible, offer your job candidates what is appropriate for the job market and appropriate for your company.

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: hiring practices, how to hire a employee, how to offer a job, making a job offer

April 6, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

Performance Appraisals for Small Business – Why You Need To Be On Board

Performance appraisals isn’t a dirty phrase, but there is a negative stigma attached to the performance appraisal, (or employee evaluation or review) process. This stigma is felt by both supervisors and employees, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Employee evaluations are a regular part of doing business.

Filed Under: Employee Performance, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: Appraisals, employee evaluations, performance appraisals, Performance Appraisals for Small Business

April 1, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Dealing With Conflict in the Workplace: Managing Difficult People and Workplace Issues

Dealing With Conflict in the Workplace:  Managing Difficult People and Workplace Issues

Based on my consultations with supervisors at all levels, supervisors dislike dealing with conflict and difficult workplace issues more than just about any other aspects of their jobs. How do you learn to deal with a variety of difficult employee issues in a way that doesn’t make a bad situation even worse?

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Employee Performance, Employee Turnover, Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: dealing with conflict, dealing with difficult people, workplace issues

March 30, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Guest Post: Five Ways Business Owners Can Prohibit Workplace Violence

Guest Post: Five Ways Business Owners Can Prohibit Workplace Violence

According to the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over two million American workers are victims of workplace violence each year. Defined by OSHA as violence or the threat of violence against workers, workplace violence can happen at any place or time – no one is immune.

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies, Workplace Safety Tagged With: safety in the workplace, workplace violence, workplace violence prevention

March 28, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock 1 Comment

What Makes a Good Supervisor? 20 Tips On How To Be A Better Supervisor

What Makes a Good Supervisor?  20 Tips On How To Be A Better Supervisor

What makes a good supervisor? The tips below are an excerpt from my soon to be published multimedia e-book, for new supervisors. An Effective Supervisor:

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: How to be a better supervisor, What makes a good supervisor?

March 25, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Workplace Bullying – An Employer’s Guide

Workplace Bullying – An Employer’s Guide

Think bullying is a problem for school kids? Unfortunately, it’s not. Bullying in the workplace is a problem that has challenged many employers and employees, whether it’s in the form of an employee who constantly targets a colleague with derogatory remarks or an assistant supervisor who excessively monitors their employee.

Filed Under: Dealing with Difficult Employees, Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Recruitment/Interviewing/Hiring, Supervisor Tips and Strategies, Workplace Safety Tagged With: Bullying in the workplace, Bullying policies in the workplace, dealing with bullying at work, workplace bully, Workplace Bullying, workplace bullying definition, workplace bullying laws

March 21, 2011 by Dianne Shaddock Leave a Comment

Banish Boss-Buddy Syndrome from the Workplace

Banish Boss-Buddy Syndrome from the Workplace

Do you and a subordinate have a friendship? Have you put off letting an employee go because you know he or she is newly divorced and raising three kids as a single parent—and you don’t want to be labeled the heartless corporate meanie?

Filed Under: Managing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Supervisor Tips and Strategies Tagged With: employee and manager relationship, employee relationship with management, employer employee relationship, how to lead, how to manage employees, role of a leader, supervisor and employee relationship

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