(Cover Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash) Reducing business costs and increasing profit... It's the never-ending quest, isn't it? Let me guess, it's one of your goals for the new year? (Don't worry, it's one of ours too.) If you're a business owner or manager, taking care of costs is a daily reality. In any given week, you may spend hours trying to look for ways to optimize your ...
(Cover Photo by Alex Perez on Unsplash) In the last post, we talked about low ROI activities to be avoided; in other words, activities that aren’t worth spending your time on. But let’s take a second to consider the flipside of this issue: what are the activities that are worth spending your time on? What are the activities that offer the highest return on investment? Before ...
If you’ve noticed, many of our recent posts have been centering on the employee experience: how to make the workplace better for everyone. With all those posts in mind, I’d thought I’d find a resource that summarizes well what we’ve talked about over the past couple of weeks. Here are some interesting insights (and questions) that come from “the largest worldwide study ...
Judging character and assessing ability is an important skill in everyday life, but it is especially important when interviewing an applicant for a position in your company. Do you think you are a good interviewer? Do you think you are a good judge of character, of talent and of ability? I think I am. Apparently, most of us aren’t. In fact, psychology confirms this; ...
HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE! NEWS OF THE NEW WORKPLACE REVOLUTION HAS COME TO THEE! YEARS OF IN-DEPTH RESEARCH AND CAREFUL SCIENTIFIC SCRUTINY HAVE MADE KNOWN TO US THIS REVELATION OF THE CENTURY: EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HAPPY AND ENGAGED AT WORK PERFORM BETTER THAN THOSE WHO ARE NOT! I'm sorry I needed to scream to get your attention there, sometimes I ...
