photo credit: Pardesi* Being an employee, whether it is for a small company or a large one, can be stressful at times, especially in today’s economy with record high lay offs and unemployment. An employee often feels uncomfortable at work around their higher up co-workers and boss, wondering what they can say and not say, […]
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photo credit: recursion_see_recursion It is no surprise to any of us that negative attitudes, whether in business or personal life, can be a real issue. They spread like wild fire causing the people around us to become negative as a direct result of our attitude. Sadly, negative attitudes have been proven to be believed by
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The Denver Post: Maureen Russell has three gigs. Hillary Skye works four. And George Peele? He juggles at least five. All of these Front Rangers are fully engaged with an economy that has become stingy with full-time jobs. To make ends meet, they balance part-time gigs. Economists and others who wrestle with employment issues have
Management-Issues.com: USC Marshall School of Business professor Christine Porath and co-author Christine Pearson, a professor of management at Thunderbird School of Global Management, discovered just how much bad manners can impact the bottom line while researching a new book, The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About
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 photo credit: Adam Tinworth While yes business meetings are vital to the companies success and help to keep everyone on track and in perspective, some speakers of these meetings tend to drag it out longer then it really needs to be. This causes loss of valuable time which ultimately costs you money. So below
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photo credit: Don Fulano In today’s business world it is no surprise that there are rumors going around in every company. Rumors of downsizing, cuts in pay and nasty rumors on layoffs. These rumors if not dealt with appropriately can become quite a bothersome act for all employees and end up causing large amounts of
Reuters: Real estate agent Lisa DeWaal serves coffee at a Starbucks outlet for four hours every morning before she goes to the office to start her “day job.” The reason has little to do with the state of the housing market and everything to do with the one big perk that 20 hours a week
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The New York Times: For all those small-business owners looking for additional sources of profitable revenue – and who isn’t? – one option may be to go back to something old-fashioned: the suggestion box. Here are some suggestions about using that old idea effectively. 1. Make it easy. “Don’t enforce rules like: ‘Employees may only
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photo credit: Piez Harvard Business recently wrote an article regarding the fact that employers are still hiring people who already have jobs rather than all of the hundreds who are out of work fighting to get by and pleading for a job! Most employers are doing this in the mind set that those who do not
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photo credit: Torley For most small businesses, the owner is the key person in the leadership role. Some owners and managers of businesses are convinced that it is only the money that creates passionate performance, productivity, and connectedness in employees. I’ve heard it many times in one form or another: “They are well paid; I
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