Is the weather affecting your business?
Summary: Is the weather affect your business, your employee productivity – you may not be able to change the weather but here are some ways to get passed it. Today it has been raining and for me that means I have a tendency to move a little slower. I know, not a good thing to […]
Where do you eat lunch?
Summary: Get to know your employees casually over a meal in the lunchroom and be a “regular person” who employees can approach. No, I’m not looking for restaurant suggestions. Actually I would like to recommend a great place to you! The best part is that it is close by (no matter where you live or […]
Will they leave?
It’s the end of summer which for many of us means the end of the slower days of business. Labor Day also marks the end of a summer schedule, going back to school and business increasing.
Create a Complaint Free Zone
One of the things about having to work with other people is their different personalities. Some as eternally optomistic, others are all business, others are fun-loving, and then there are those who rarely have a nice thing to say. There is nothing worse than only hearing complaints, actually it can be just down right draining!
What do employees expect from you?
There are many books about leadership and managing people – former/current leaders are always willing to share their thoughts on what made them best. While each has their own philosophy, style, and passion – it all comes down to three things.
Are you prepared for Mother Nature?
A couple of days ago here in the Midwest we experienced a strange storm, within 15 minutes we had 70 mph winds and heavy rain – then poof! it was gone. Within those 15 minutes over 800,000 homes and businesses lost power for a day or more (including me). The storm made it’s way across the area […]
The “How” of Employee Counselling
The past several weeks we have been talking about Employee Counselling – when to do it and why. What hasn’t been discussed is the “how”. In reality when you think about it, the “how” is really what can trip people up.
Does it really matter?
In a conversation last week I was asked “Does having good employees really made a difference?” Instead of answering directly, I asked a few questions instead. Follow along to see if you agree with me.
Put it in writing!
For the most part employees come to work with the best intentions and want to do good work. However, there are those occssions (or various occasions) when an employee needs to be corrected in their behavior. A question I get often is when talking to an employee about performance issues when should the conversation change from […]
Are you “blocked”?
This week’s post comes to you courtesy of “writer’s block”. I try to draw inspiration from everywhere some human resources related, some business related or some from questions from clients and friends. It appears lately all is working well – which is to be celebrated, after all that is my goal.