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Start Planning Now for Next Year
With the fourth quarter of the year underway, now is the perfect time to start thinking about your goals for next year. Being an effective manager is a tough job, but with the right planning and the right skills, you can continue to improve and grow. Keep these key...
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Start Planning Now for Next Year
With the fourth quarter of the year underway, now is the perfect time to start thinking about your goals for next year. Being an effective manager is a tough job, but with the right planning and the right skills, you can continue to improve and grow. Keep these key...
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What Potential Employees Want from You
Even with unemployment rates higher than we’d all like to see, searching for potential employees is still a challenge. In fact, a survey of human resources professionals reports that recruitment is a top concern for 2021. Just as you have a specific set of ideals in...
Explain, Maintain, and Train
Employee Handbook Best Practices Your employee handbook puts all the policies and procedures that govern your business in one central location. At its most basic level, its purpose is to inform. When managed effectively, its reach can be far greater than that. Use the...
You’ve Received a Harassment Complaint – Now What?
Preventing harassment at your company is vital to creating and maintaining a productive work environment where all employees are treated with respect. Unfortunately, though, even when you do all you can to prevent harassing behavior, it can still happen. If it does,...
Lead, Don’t Manage
Everyone has room to improve. We all know that about ourselves -- and probably even know the areas of our leadership that need improvement -- but making the necessary changes is never as easy as it seems. If you really want to bring about positive change for yourself,...
Start Planning Now for Employee Appreciation Day
The first Friday in March is Employee Appreciation Day, and it’s never too early to start putting some plans in place. This year, it may help to think of “appreciation” as a unique form of “accommodation.” What are you doing to make sure each of your employees can...
How to Reduce Workplace Injuries
According to the National Safety Council, the annual economic cost of workplace injuries is $170.8 billion. This includes the cost of wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, administrative expenses, and employers’ uninsured costs. When an employee is injured...
Why You Can’t Afford to Skimp on Training and Career Development
You know the expression, “The person on top of the mountain didn’t fall there”? It’s true – whether you’re climbing the corporate ladder or making your way to an assistant manager position at the corner store, you have committed to a career development path. Training...
Bystander Intervention to Prevent Harassment
Harassment in the workplace affects the culture of your business environment. When harassment goes unchecked, it can lead to low staff morale and increased turnover. In severe cases, harassment can result in costly lawsuits. Bystander intervention is part of an...
Online Learning Glossary
As businesses look for options to replace in-person learning events, training employees online has skyrocketed. Use this online learning glossary to keep track of industry lingo. Assessment: Assessments are a way to determine if a trainee has understood the learning...
Best Practices for LMS Administration
Running your training through a Learning Management System has many benefits for learners and administrators. Be careful, though – while an LMS does streamline many functions of scheduling and tracking training, as an administrator there are risks to operating on...
Mission: Possible
If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably won’t wind up there. Before you can build a team environment, you must first decide on the team mission – where do you want it to go? What do you want it to do? By defining a clear team mission, you show employees...
Which Topics are Best for Online Employee Training?
Online employee training isn’t a nice-to-have tool in your knowledge management toolbox, it’s a must-have tool. Training online creates consistency in your training message, improves efficiency in training time, and streamlines training administration tasks. 5 Content...
