The Candidate Experience: How and Why to Do It Right!
Whether you’re a recruiter, HR specialist, or just a manger looking to fill some open positions, people who are charged with finding talent and hiring personnel often approach the process from the wrong angle. Oftentimes the focus is solely on the needs of the one doing the hiring, without regard to the “candidate experience” of […]
OFFICE ETIQUETTE: Are You Driving Your Co-workers Crazy?
Good manners are important in all aspects of life. So why do some people feel that common courtesy and etiquette don’t apply at the office? Your co-workers are a bit like roommates, and they don’t want you encroaching on their space, or leaving a mess for them to clean up. Some of these “roommates” may […]
Surviving the Business Trip, Part 2: Making it Work
So you’re packed and prepped and waiting for your plane. Your trip begins now. Not “now” as when you arrive at the meeting, but “now” as in now. From the moment you check in at the airport or hotel, until you arrive safely back home, you should be prepared to be “on.” Just because you’re […]
Surviving the Business Trip, Part 1: Packing and Prepping
For most of us, there comes a time when our job requires us to pack up and head out of town for a conference, a sales call, a training meeting, or a host of other reasons. This is commonly known as: the business trip. Many aspects of business travel are unpredictable, such as flight delays, […]
Reducing Turnover: How to Keep Quality
Employees from Jumping Ship
It’s hard enough to find good help, but it’s even harder to watch a great employee walk out the door, especially when you’ve invested time and money developing him into a key staff member. Jumping from job to job is fairly common these days. From the employee’s perspective, it’s easy to see the upside: greater […]
Reverse Mentoring: What It Is and Why It’s
Valuable
Reverse mentoring is an idea that’s been around a while now, but it’s still a somewhat unfamiliar and under-used concept in most companies. Basically, instead of the traditional mentoring structure where a seasoned employee takes a young upstart under their wing and teaches them about the business, reverse mentoring flips the script. In this case […]
The Five Year Plan
It’s that classic interview question that everybody dreads: Where do you see yourself in five years? Most people attempt to craft the perfect answer based on what they think the interviewer wants to hear. Forget that. When you take the question out of the interview framework and set aside all notions of what your answer […]
Good Leadership: The Key Ingredient for Creating a Positive Workplace
Are employees more motivated and productive when they are happy, or unhappy? Stupid question, right? Although it seems obvious that happy employees are better employees, it’s easy for bosses to lose sight of this fact. If you supervise or manage people in any way, it might be time to power down and reboot your approach […]