Supervisor Training: Training Your Supervisors To Train

Do your supervisors really know how to effectively train employees or are they simply telling employees what to do. There's a big difference between training and telling. Companies use many different forms of training yet they all have different success rates when it comes to actual learning and retention.

Pay Your Managers and Employees EXTRA MONEY for Doing EXTRA WORK

When I do Consulting I often recommend that the Company should offer to pay their Managers and Employees Extra Money for doing Extra Work or Extra Money for getting the Work done in Record Time. Quite often they balk at this idea because they feel they are already paying good or even great compensation for these people to do the work they were hired for.

Essential Startup Business Questions... Failing To Plan is Planning to Fail

Failure to answer a few important questions might doom your business before it even gets started.

Your Project's Team Building Success Potential Index

Project managers and those associated with projects typically like to measure things. You use words like tons-per-day; cubic-feet-per-minute; megabits-per-second; and so on. Here is a new one for you. Would you be interested in knowing the team building success potential index (TSPI) of your next project? If so, here is a non-scientific, but very pragmatic, way to predict it.

Avoiding a Hostile Workplace- Fairness in Employee Discipline

The environment of your workplace is vital to employee satisfaction, reduction of turnover, and productivity. It is also vital to the legal stability of your business. A hostile work environment can be the basis for many types of employee complaints and causes of legal action

The Power of Effective Decissions on Powerful Health Care Practices

Effective decision making as the pathway to growth and fulfillment. We take a look at the fundamental skills to get and keep private practice chiropractic and other doctors on track.

Who Stole My Customer?

Having a break-in is a personal violation that creates a sense of fear, panic and confusion. The questions that race through your mind are, what happened and why me? What could we have done to prevent this? When a business experiences this, the reality is that simple measures could have prevented the customer loss.

Engage Your Employees Through Discovery

Large or small, companies can have a difficult time keeping employees engaged. When an employee's work becomes routine, he will often start thinking of his position as just another job for just another company. It's time to re-introduce your employees to your company.

The Four Biggest Mistakes a Supervisor Can Make

In the twenty-plus years I have been working in human resources, I have been able to see first hand the mistakes most often made by new and seasoned supervisors, managers, and others who lead employees. Over time, I have consolidated these common errors into four major mistakes. See if you or someone in your organization is making these mistakes needlessly by reviewing the following list.

Health Savings Accounts Article: Participating in Your Employee's Future

According to the American Health Insurance Providers (AHIP) the number of individuals enrolled in an HSA-type insurance plan went from 438,000 in 2004 to 3.2 million in 2005 a seven fold increase in one year! And, by the year 2010, the Treasury Department projects 40 to 45 million people will be covered.

Distribution is the Key

Disribution is an integral part of any business. This article explains why a distibution business makes good sense

Leave the Profession Forever

One form of burnout comes from too much effort and idealism that blocks the necessary process of fitting into the established pace of the workplace and lasting for the long haul.

The Worst Forms of Burnout - Dead Wood and Helpless or Hopeless

Dead Wood and Helpless or Hopeless employees have gone so far into the burnout process that they present a special challenge for management. These situations dramatize the need for proper stress management in the workplace as well. Executives and policy makers need to think about this seriously. Small business owners and professionals in their own practice would also do well to take heed.