HR Trends You Can No Longer Ignore
Change is constant in HR, and 2015 is no exception. The next few years are going to bring radical new ideas, new demographics, new legislation, and new workforce paradigms. The economy has finally returned to pre-recession levels, Boomers are retiring in droves, hiring is surging, and the war for talent rages on. I offer you […]
5 Ways to Welcome Aboard Your New Employee
Thirty-seven percent of employees will find new jobs which means that onboarding and welcome your new hires should be a priority. Employees are most productive and engaged in their first 6 months with a company. How you welcome, interact, onboard and engage them during this time is critical to their personal and professional success for […]
How to Use Phone Interviews to Screen Candidates
How to Use Phone Interviews to Screen Candidates Phone interviews give you an easy way to do a quick assessment of a candidate. They do not require coordinating schedules of an interview panel or arranging time for a candidate to come in, and they can be done wherever you have cell reception. During the phone […]
Optimize Your Commission Based Pay & Sales Compensation
A major challenge for businesses expanding rapidly (e.g., startups) is fairly compensating employees when income has yet to stabilize. These businesses occasionally solely pay their salespeople on commission in the hopes that they would perform well, continue to close transactions, and bring in new customers. Commission-based remuneration makes sense from a leadership standpoint in terms […]
What is Affirmative Action Anyway?
Check out part 2 and part 3 of this series on workplace diversity and affirmative action. I recently found myself in a contentious discussion on workplace equality with a colleague of mine who works in the tech sector. We talked about how crucial it is in this day and age for women to have enough […]
Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions: 3 Behavioral Tricks to Make Them Stick
3 Behavioral Tricks to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick Sometime between December 26th and December 31st, most people decide to make resolutions for the coming year. While they are often noble in purpose and are aimed at the betterment of the individual making the resolution they are also often doomed for failure. The primary culprits […]
