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Start Planning Now for Next Year
With the fourth quarter of the year underway, now is the perfect time to start thinking about your goals for next year. Being an effective manager is a tough job, but with the right planning and the right skills, you can continue to improve and grow. Keep these key...
Start Planning Now for Next Year
With the fourth quarter of the year underway, now is the perfect time to start thinking about your goals for next year. Being an effective manager is a tough job, but with the right planning and the right skills, you can continue to improve and grow. Keep these key...
Your Competition is Changing – Are You Ready?
You’ve heard the joke about the two hikers and a bear, right? Two hikers encounter an angry bear in the forest. One of them opens his backpack, pulls out his running shoes, and begins putting them on as fast as he can. The other watches and says, “You don’t think...
Your Competition is Changing – Are You Ready?
You’ve heard the joke about the two hikers and a bear, right? Two hikers encounter an angry bear in the forest. One of them opens his backpack, pulls out his running shoes, and begins putting them on as fast as he can. The other watches and says, “You don’t think...
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Strengthening Your Training Strategy with New Employees
Employees are most willing and excited to learn during their first few weeks on the job. As a manager, it’s your responsibility to make sure your new hire training is setting employees up for success. The success of your new hire training strategy doesn’t just affect...
Does Your Crisis Management Plan Include Caring for Your Staff?
Business leaders have long been encouraged to create a crisis management plan to help them respond to unlikely but potentially devastating events. Companies with a plan have likely already implemented it. Those without one are likely creating it on the fly. Usually,...
Problem-Solving at Your Fingertips
Have you considered bringing in a consultant to evaluate your business? The idea is that input from an outsider can uncover gaps in your training, processes, and procedures. A new problem-solving perspective can open your eyes to aspects of your operation that haven’t...
The Role of Learning Management Right Now
It seems as though no part of our lives has gone untouched by the current healthcare crisis impacting the nation and the world. Businesses are facing a myriad of different scenarios right now, many of which involve how they train and inform their employees. Take a...
Do’s and Don’ts of Crisis Leadership
Whether you’re the owner of a big firm or the manager of a neighborhood store, you made a promise to lead your team through good times and bad. Decisions, of course, come much easier in good times. During times of crisis, the challenges you face are often completely...
Why Setting Goals Matters
How do you measure success? For many, the greatest sense of accomplishment comes from achieving a goal. Here’s the challenge – if you don’t establish goals, you won’t know when you reach them. Research shows that goal setting improves performance 20 to 25 percent....
e-Learning by the Numbers
Business leaders used to ask, “Why should we implement e-Learning?” Now, with the explosion of e-Learning solutions taking over corporate training programs, the more important question is “Why wouldn’t we implement e-Learning?” If you’re not already using some form...
What’s Your Focus for the New Year?
It’s that time again – time to write your new year’s resolutions. Resolutions always seem like a good idea, don’t they? After all, studies show that about half of all Americans make resolutions. The downside is that less than 10 percent of those who make them,...
Exit Interviews that Enlighten
Your favorite employee is leaving (or maybe it’s your least favorite employee) and you’ve heard enough about exit interviews to know you should conduct one, but you can’t help thinking, “What’s the point?” After all, good employees on their way out don’t want to burn...
Are You a Target?
Crime is costly. The financial losses from theft alone exceed over $50 billion per year. Add in what businesses spend to prevent loss, and that amount more than doubles. When you recognize how criminals might target your business, you can strategize ways to stop them....
If It Doesn’t Happen at Work, Is It Still Workplace Harassment?
You already know that federal mandates, as well as laws in many states, prohibit workplace harassment. What you might not know is that the term itself can be a little misleading. When you hear “workplace harassment” you may think it only applies to behavior that...
Develop Hourly Employees into Managers
Spending time to develop employees into managers is a win-win proposition. It creates a growth vehicle for hourly employees to sample management responsibilities, and it also provides much-needed relief when business increases dramatically, managers take vacations, or...
