Basic HR principles raise employee satisfaction and performance
So you never wanted to be an HR professional or thought you had the right skills to be one. But as a business owner, you find yourself dealing with all kinds of HR issues—everything from hiring and...
View ArticleHR insights can boost productivity and employee satisfaction
Business people have all kinds of different ideas about HR; you probably have some yourself. After all, HR is a broad, evolving field that includes everything from hiring and firing to training and...
View Article3 Ways Hiring and Marketing Go Hand in Hand
How you market your business to customers is completely different from your hiring processes, right? Wrong. Just as you create specialized campaigns and a company brand in order to attract the right...
View ArticleBad bosses cost us plenty; small steps can make it better
When three out of four workers in the U.S. say that their boss is the most stressful part of their jobs, doesn’t that say that people who ‘manage’ other people are wringing the productivity—and in many...
View ArticleLabor Day should celebrate and be celebrated by small business
With millions of Americans still unemployed or underemployed, it’s tough to fully celebrate the value of work on Labor Day, which is coming up on Monday, September 3rd. On this fourth (or is it fifth?)...
View ArticlePlay more, work better
What does play have to do with work? Isn’t play what we do when we’re trying to avoid work? Or what we’re able to do, occasionally, because we work? The relationship between work and play is a lot more...
View ArticleBeing an introvert in an extroverted world
Why should we all know about introverts and extroverts? Because understanding the differences can influence how to relate to others, our workstyles and even our expecations of ourselves. If you think...
View ArticleHire the right people: more than meets the eye
Maybe you think it’s luck. Or maybe friends and colleagues have told you that you have good instincts for hiring good people. Luck and instinct may play some role, but the real key is more about how...
View ArticleStressed? Make it work for you!
Too much to do, too few hours in the day. Most of us are feeling stressed a lot of the time. Work, family and finances are common sources of stress. When we think and talk about stress, most of the...
View Article‘Onboarding’ critical for small businesses
We love how business terms and practices evolve and spread—some new, some re-named, some actually refreshed and repackaged. One of these is onboarding, a common practice among companies for a decade or...
View ArticleSmall businesses allegedly struggle to hire
Between the economy and the weather, the summer of 2012 is shaping up to be a topsy-turvy one, full of unpredictable extremes and (mostly unwelcome surprises. Take the national jobs picture, for...
View ArticleHealth Savings Accounts may be the answer for small business
The question of health care and health care coverage in the U.S. is again popping up more frequently in the news these days, with the Supreme Court expected to rule on the Affordable Care Act yet this...
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