A well thought out and structured performance management system can be one tool to help organizations achieve business success. Having a strategy and SMART business goals is the best way an organization can achieve business objectives. Unfortunately, organizations sometimes do not invest the time to develop a performance management structure, process and training. A performance [...]
Leadership
When a small business is formed, it is often difficult to imagine the time when there is a need to hire employees. When that day comes, it is important to understand the new employee hiring process. There are several steps that need to be considered before entering into an employment arrangement with someone. This is [...]
With the current economic environment, people are doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. Unfortunately, sometimes this means a second job. A recent survey of employees who moonlight shows that 13% moonlight with a second job because of the economy. The DOL estimates that as many as 4.17 million Americans moonlight. Moonlighting is defined [...]
I was at a conference this week and one of the many great speakers I heard was Ken Blanchard. For anyone who may not know who Ken Blanchard is, he is one of the premier leadership gurus and has decades of experience teaching and writing about leadership and how management tactics can impact employee performance. [...]
Work life balance has been a movement over the last 25 years. With corporate downsizing, increased competition, increased responsibilities and organizations trying to achieve more with less, the employees are feeling the crunch. Employees are the ones carrying the burden of getting it done. Feeling the pressure to keep their job and climb the corporate [...]
Employee fraud costs businesses billions of dollars every year. According to a 2008 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), 994 billion dollars is lost every year to employee fraud. This equates to businesses losing 2.7 billion dollars every day. Fraud Definition: “deceit, trickery, sharp practice or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or [...]
Credibility is one of those pet peeves of mine. Being a credible person or business should be a priority for all of us. To be credible means “capable of being believed; believable, worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy”. While being credible is important to all aspects of business, following are some areas of credibility that [...]
Four Similarities Between Dog Training and Employee Management
My children blessed us with a darling ten week old Shih Tzu puppy this past Christmas. Maggie is now almost seven months old and we have decided to start her in dog training to help us influence some of her behaviors. Maggie is finishing up her first week of training and we had our “parent-teacher” [...]