Treat Employees Like Dogs To Boost Loyalty

We Americans love pets, especially when it comes to dogs. You might be wondering how treating employees like dogs is going to have anything but a negative effect on your business. But I suggest just the opposite is true.

Employee Selection - Are You Gambling at Work?

Employee Retention begins with Employee Selection. Gambling is alive and well in the modern work environment! It's amazing how many organizations gamble at work by not using advanced hiring techniques that could save resources and future headaches. Employee Selection is a key strategy that can save organizations tremendous resources, time, and energy. Proper Employee Selection is the foundation to an effective Employee Retention strategy.

Basic Reasons Why Employees Do Not Perform Well

Employees want to perform well and they want to be held accountable. As leaders and managers we have an obligation to our employees to help them realize their maximum potential.

Prepared For Take-Off?

Treating your major achievements should be treated with the same degree of planning as flying a commercial airliner. Is Attainability on the Pre-flight Checklist for your goal planning?

Global Corporate Priorities For 2007 - Doing Business With China And India

Never before has the economic outlook been so positive. A recent report produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights a hugely optimistic outlook for 2007 with nine out of ten senior executives regarding prospects for business over the next three years as good or very good. However, with globalization and the emergence of new markets, CEOs are required to manage across increasingly complex and differing environments. Whilst 2007 promises to deliver much, executives need to be realistic about the complexity of the task ahead.

5 Tips on How to Choose Which Wholesale Promotional Products to Offer

Promotional products are given away primarily to create and sustain interest in a company's products and services. They can be the products itself or, and this happens more frequently than usual, specially made products that are imprinted with the company's name and manufactured exclusively to serve as giveaways.

My Way Or The Highway?

As the economy and labor market improves, will some of your key people choose the highway?

Maximize Your Own Skills and Delegate Other Requirements for Success

Use the skills you possess and stop trying to learn more skills to run your business. Delegate those chores you don't know how to do, or don't have time to get done. Your business will be more profitable.

Plan Your Time - Manage Your Time, Invest Your Time

Number of hours in a day will not change. There will only be 86,400 seconds in a day. It is up to you, how you manage and use each of those seconds. One needs to invest each second. As, it has been rightly said, time once passed will never come again. Busy people are very satisfied, happy and do everything that they want to do in their life. Those, who show that they are busy, end up with frustration, burn-outs, stress and most of the time failure in life and profession.

Companies Too Big to React Will Fail

In 1996, my brother and sister-in-law decided to retire... leave the Chicago area. They chose to move to the Colorado desert-mountain city where I live. As a banker, I've heard so many excuses about why businesses fail. However, during this move, I saw at least a dozen, sound reasons that cause either failure or lost profits.

How To Design Employee Communication Strategies That Engage Employees

This article is for anyone involved in communicating with employees. It explains the difference between whether your employee communication strategies engage employees or simply inform.

Employee Performance Issues - How to Effectively Address Problem Performance

Employee performance issues are unavoidable. The key to both addressing them and reducing their reoccurrence is to provide honest and timely feedback.

The First Performance Conversation

Probably nine out of ten people I speak with say they have too much work to do and they are working 10 or more hours a day to try and keep up. Don't you agree we have to change this? At least one of the things taking our time has to be less important than having a conversation with people about how we want our organisation to look, sound and feel - and express this in our goals. This article discusses the qualities of a powerful conversation about the performance results that matter.