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Last Minute Holiday Merchandising
By this time of the year, your holiday marketing plan should be pretty well up and running. Hopefully you’re pulling in the profits you anticipated. But, are there any last-minute opportunities that may have been overlooked while you've been preparing for the busy...
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Last Minute Holiday Merchandising
By this time of the year, your holiday marketing plan should be pretty well up and running. Hopefully you’re pulling in the profits you anticipated. But, are there any last-minute opportunities that may have been overlooked while you've been preparing for the busy...
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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...
Custom Training Programs Put Employees First
Your staff is your most valuable asset, and like any asset, it needs to be continually maintained. For your employees, that means setting them up with the skills they need to be successful in their jobs and their careers. Custom training programs allow you to do just...
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...
Effective Virtual Team Communication
The events of 2020 have forced most businesses to re-evaluate how they communicate within their teams. For essential businesses and other operations in the service industry where employees are still on-site and not always in front of computers, video conferences are...
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...
What You Don’t Know Actually Can Hurt You
Complying with various federal, state, and local laws is part of doing business. No industry is exempt from compliance regulations, and some industries face greater legal demands than others. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself and your company from risks...
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...
How to Maximize Productivity of Part-time and Seasonal Employees
Nearly 27 million people hold part-time jobs. For some, their part-time work is their only paid work. For others, a part-time job supplements another source of income. For you, as their employer, the fact that an employee works for you only part-time or as a second...
