Posts Tagged ‘qualified employees’
Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups
By Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur.com Anyone who has started a business has his or her own rules and guidelines, so I thought I would add to the memo with my own. My “rules” below aren’t just for those founding the companies, but for those who are considering [Read More]
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]
Firing horror stories
Think getting fired is hard? Try doing the firing. And when you are a small business owner it can be particularly hard. At best, it's an uncomfortable face-to-face confrontation that can lead to hurt feelings. At worst: physical altercations, hacked servers and lost [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]
Tech distractions for workers add up
Distractions caused by social media, e-mail and badly designed office technology may cost a 1,000-worker company more than $10 million a year, a survey says. [Read More]
Lessons learned from 25 years as an entrepreneur
Twenty-five years ago, I said goodbye to my last boss, and launched my first small business. Through these past 25 years, I've owned four businesses — going through booms and recessions. I've hired, fired. I've raised capital, gotten bank loans, invested my savings. I've [Read More]
Your New Year’s Resolution for Your Business
Resolve for 2011 to fully embrace technology and to completely integrate it thoughout every aspect of your business; from your marketing, to how you work with and interact with clients and staff, to how you manage your administrative tasks and actually operate your [Read More]
Peerdrum: How Bosses are Babysitting Telecommuters
While every employer of telecommuters has at one point or another wished they could be a fly on the wall in the domain of their employees who work from home—gauging productivity, accounting for missed deadlines, or witnessing how long it really takes to complete an [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]
