Sponsored by BambooHR: Your workplace vibe is vital for business success. The office environment is influenced by dozens of factors from layout to company culture. Each element contributing to the overall vibe of your workplace is important, and to see results, you need to take a holistic approach. Simply put, employees need to be happy to perform properly, so the office … [Read more...]
Hiring a Team – Employee or Independent Contractor?
As a business owner, one of the first things we may do when we expand our business is think about hiring some help. This may be in the form of part-time or full-time employees, virtual assistants, marketing assistants, or others who work for us a few hours a week here and there. So how can we make sure we are categorizing these individuals correctly, from a legal … [Read more...]
Workplace Addiction: Addressing and Ending Substance Abuse in the Workplace
Jobs that are focused on manual labor are cited as some of the main industries where drug and alcohol abuse is prevalent. Some career paths, like the entertainment industry, and even jobs at the executive level, almost welcome drinking and drug use. Entertaining clients, long business trips, and access to large amounts of money all encourage drug and alcohol use. But many … [Read more...]
Mobile Apps for Training Millennials in 2017
If millennials continue to impact workplace dynamics as profoundly as they have done since they entered the workforce, there is only one thing to do and that is to tailor training in a way that works for them. That poses some challenges since in many ways, the technology-savvy 19 to 35-year-old worker doesn't operate quite like any previous generation. Training millenials … [Read more...]
3 Significant Implications of Deciding to Pay Your Employees Daily
Of all the workplace revolutions predicted for the next decade, one that is rapidly gaining steam is a move by employers to pay their workers daily instead of weekly or more commonly, twice a month. Paying in real time, or paying as the employee earns the money, may sound like a brand new concept, but years ago it was not uncommon. Companies often advanced payments to … [Read more...]
Unique Challenges of Onboarding for Small Businesses and 3 Mistakes to Avoid
Small businesses aren’t run like multinational companies, so why would they onboard like them? While there are certainly best practices that guide the way new employees are onboarded, the process must ultimately be tailored to meet the size and nature of a business. One thing is for certain, though: all employers should have an onboarding strategy, regardless of the business … [Read more...]
Feedback is a Gift – Especially When It Hurts
Few of us look forward to a feedback appointment. Regardless of how solid we consider our work performance and efforts to be, the bottom-line is that we all have professional blind spots and absolutely no one is exempt from negative feedback. We’ve all been there, but ouch! Usually, it comes with a sting, tempting us to lash out in ways that aren’t professional or more … [Read more...]
Developing High Performing Talent
The most valuable asset of any successful business is the human talent that executes day to day operations. Remove the individual team members, and you invalidate the role of leader or manager. Leadership becomes a title with no purpose or usefulness. The effort and labor of the employee – their output – correlates with increases in revenue. Highly qualified and trained … [Read more...]
Managing the Employees on the Move
Of all the challenges facing the human resources professional in recent years, the rise of the mobile employee stands among those that require a steep learning curve. People hired to do a job for a specific company in a specific place are suddenly packing their bags and accepting that company's invitation to go work in India, China, the Middle East, or other foreign … [Read more...]
4 Hard Truths about Small Business HR
Picture an HR professional walking into a trendy office with a group of very casually dressed millennials. AWKWARD! Welcome to today’s small business! Sure the environment is fun, casual, and comfortable. But what about HR? Can HR really fit in? Of course HR can fit in -- as long as the HR representative can adjust to the new environment. Oh, and get rid of that age old … [Read more...]