Learning Social Media is Easy in Small Bites!
Has learning social media turned your business world upside down? Are you still struggling with how to apply social media to your business strategies? Does your business have a strong online presence? All this tweeting, tagging, liking, following, is information overload, AND what does it really have to do with business? Kinda scary, right? In Sheryl Sandberg’s […]
Manner Monday: Children in the Workplace
Without getting into a heated debate whether it’s right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate… sometimes life happens… and if you are a parent, there may be an inopportune time when you have to bring your child(ren) with you to work. This week’s Manner Monday discusses one of the most controversial topics, children in the workplace. If you […]
Substance Abuse in the Workplace
Depending on what type of business you run, it may be difficult to determine if your employees are under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In fact the number of employees who are currently using substance may be shocking to you, with more than 200 million people of our population using drugs and alcohol in […]
7 Ways Managers Can Protect Team Priorities From Fire Drills
You’ve been there before. You’re in the zone, your team is doing everything right, getting things done. And then…something urgent pops up that needs your attention. Now. As the leader or manager of a team, how do you handle new priorities or extra work that gets handed to you from higher up, or from another department? […]
“Pssst…Robots are After Your Job”
Will your job be extinct in 50 years? WIRED magazine thinks so. Its 2012 cover story (“The Robot Takeover”) predicts that by the end of this century, over 70% of existing jobs will be automated—to include most traditionally “white collar” professions. Journalism, education, law, medicine—all of these are fields that are already experiencing the birth […]
Frequency & Quality Drives Employee Engagement Through Communication
As employers, we spent between 2-5 times an employee’s annual salary recruiting, courting and selecting them before they even set foot in our office as an employee. Unfortunately, the communication and engagement often ends just when our workforce needs it most, and that’s after onboarding when they become a fully productive and functioning employee. When […]
