‘Small Biz HR’ Archives
Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews
CrowdSpring I’m not a fan of end-of-year employee reviews. If you waited until the end of the year to give feedback to your employees, you failed. But, when done properly, year-end employee reviews can serve an important purpose. Here are five tips to help you improve [Read More]
How Creative Are Your Employee Benefits? Check These Out for Some Great Ideas!
Employee benefits have taken a hit in the last couple of years as the economy has crumbled and many people believe that just having a job is a benefit! But for those of us lucky enough to have a job and a boss who cares about us and the work environment, even if they can't [Read More]
Do You and Your Employees Take Time off?
Despite larger workloads and more work hours, Expedia.com 2009 International Vacation Deprivation Survey reports that 34 percent of US workers don't use their vacation days. Why don't people use their personal days to take a break from the extra hours they put in? More [Read More]
Three Trends Affecting Your Employees in 2011
From health care reform to policies and training, use this checklist to manage your team. By Burton Goldfield, Entrepreneur.com While many business experts and industry pundits are predicting the economy will improve moderately this year, small businesses are continuing to [Read More]
How to Avoid Year-End Time-Wasting
The last few weeks of the year aren’t very productive. Here are five suggestions for making the most of the quiet time. Entrepreneur.com, By Elizabeth Blackwell It’s become a seasonal tradition, and it starts with “Cyber Monday:” employees logging on [Read More]
10 Ways to Manage Employees that Are Older Than You
By Mamta Badkar (Business Insider), American Express Open Forum There are always awkward moments when a company’s new hire is younger than the team he or she is managing. Older employees who thought they were in the running for the same position may feel slighted, [Read More]
Hiring family or friends to work for you can be boon or bust
By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Donald Trump did it. So did entrepreneur Mike Repole and nutritionist Oz Garcia. Though the businesses they run are dramatically different, all have entered the same, often treacherous arena of hiring friends or family to help grow [Read More]
Finding Quality, Qualified Employees To Support Growth
View the show here! (This is part two of a one hour show please use scroll bar on video to view this topic.) Guest: Carlos Baldizón-Martini – Career Services Advisor, The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago Mr. Baldizón-Martini brings together companies, [Read More]
Hiring the Right Person
The Hiring Process, Interview Techniques and Using Technology View the show here! Guest: Kathy Bennicoff, D.M., Vice President of Career Services, Lincoln College of Technology. Ms. Bennicoff oversees the Career Services department. Each of Lincoln’s individual [Read More]
HR Challenges
Human Resources for the Small Business has just as many challenges as you might expect. Do you have enough budget to hire an HR person full-time? If not, how do you find, interview and hire new employees? Tweet This Post [Read More]
