While 1 in 4 Millennials might say they are feeling overwhelmed by debt, the rest of us in the working world are feeling overwhelmed with dealing with them. Them being the millennials, the GenY’ers. Millennials are the generation of people born between 1982 and 2000. Other’s say they are those…
A Good Employee Onboarding Program – 3 Keys to Your Company’s Success
You’ve hired the best. Now what? You only get one chance to make the right impression on your shiny new employee. Don’t learn this lesson the hard way. I recently took a call from a very disgruntled woman who quit her job after only 10 days due to sheer frustration. She…
Team Building Globally : A Special Guide for Virtual Managers
Globalized workplaces are fast becoming the norm. This means today’s managers are faced with a whole new landscape of people challenges. Companies are engaging teams from a wider variety of cultures. Employees and contractors may be working across oceans in other countries, or telecommuting right in the same city. As Greg Savage puts it, candidates are not…
Choosing Someone to Manage or to Lead – How Can You Tell the Difference?
If you are faced with hiring a new manager for your organisation, I would like you to think about the weight of the decision you are making. Wait a minute, what does that have to do with baking a cake? My friend Leslee Lucy, the Financial Centre Manager for Sun Life, nailed it…
5 Values to Help You Determine Right Fit When Hiring
If you want to determine whether a potential new hire will fit your company culture, you should start by defining your company culture and then the potential hire. Today has been a pretty typical day for me. Earlier this morning I met a client who told me he could tell…
Skimping on Employee Training Because of Costs? Bad Idea.
Too often small-business owners ignore the value of providing a formal training program, focusing instead on worrying that the employees they invest time and money into are just going to leave anyway. What About If Your Customers Leave? Inadequate training is THE biggest underlying reason for the scarcity of great…
What’s Your BEST Employee Value Proposition?
Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the balance of the rewards and benefits that are received by employees in return for their performance at the workplace. Wikipedia is right, but there’s far more to ensuring you have what it takes to attract A-Level talent. Start…
Play Nice. Get Ahead Faster. 3 Easy Steps.
No matter your education, ability or accomplishments if you’re not skilled at playing well with others, all your hard work and drive will be for not. Here’s 3 common sense ways to help you to “play nice”. Verbal and non-verbal communications. Verbal or non-verbal sarcasm or talking down…
Recent Comments