Companies that engage employees and the community through employee volunteerism are making a difference to more than the bottom line. Incorporating programs for social good into their culture helps companies stand out in their community, enhances recruiting opportunities and leads to greater satisfaction among employees. Additionally according to the Center for Corporate … [Read more...]
How to Use Social Recruiting for Job Hiring [Infographic]
Want to find the best candidates for open jobs at your company? Social recruiting can help you do it. Using tools like Twitter and LinkedIn, hiring managers have access to information, referrals, and even job seekers that puts them in a strong position to find highly qualified job candidates. Job seekers are active on the social web. You just need to look for them, interact … [Read more...]
Time is Love
There is a new song out by Josh Turner entitled "Time is Love". Every time I hear this song it is a mini-exercise in personal and professional strategic planning for me. How often do we think about where we spend our time- and really get honest with ourselves? How often do we think about what we really care about, what matters most? And the final step... how often do we … [Read more...]
Employees: Love Them or Leave Them
As a small business owner you become intimately involved in every area of your company and work closely with most of your employees. There are several perks to this. You gain an intimate understanding of how your company works, understand your clients and their needs, and see the company culture at work on a daily basis. Small business owners do not need to look at reports … [Read more...]
Women, Leadership, Self-Care, and BLUE MONDAY
You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan. Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior. You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait. Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that … [Read more...]
How to (or NOT to) Stand Out With Your Resume
How to (or NOT to) Stand Out With Your Resume I recently came across an article on MSN careers, titled 20 Unusual Resume Tactics to Avoid. In it, the author, Autumn McReynolds, shared what she believed to be tactics to avoid with your resume, based on the annual CareerBuilder survey. These 20 tactics were: Candidate said the more you paid him, the harder he … [Read more...]
Getting The Best Out Of Your Staff
Guest post by Rebecca of chillsauce. The key to being a great manager is to monitor your staff's performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately make sure your team is working productively. There are many approaches to motivating your staff and rewarding them for hard work and success, from a mention in a meeting or in a internal publication to a promotion in … [Read more...]
It’s Fun To Be Recognized
I love surprises! Being listed among the Top 20 Leadership Books for emerging leaders made my day, actually it made my week. Up there with Covey, Maxwell, Bennis, and Blanchard is wonderful. I must admit, however, while I love to be there I was sad about the limited number of other women on this list. Hey ladies, what do you have to say about that? Top 20 leadership … [Read more...]
The Capable Employee
As a modern business owner, I’ve caught the fever to rely on gadgets and depend on electronic communication in lieu of actually picking up the phone; but I wonder, have I done my company a disservice? As I visit client sites and assess the challenges they face, it becomes clear that sometimes the culprit is not the employee, it’s the technology. Excessive reliance on … [Read more...]
Hey Boss, Your Policy is Stupid!
As business owners we often set policies and procedures from a reactive point of view. Something happened that brought the situation to our attention and then we put things in place to ensure they don’t happen again. But is this the best way to create policies? Can your staff weigh in on their effectiveness and when they do, do their opinions matter? If you have a sense that … [Read more...]