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Do Your Job Postings Have These Red Flags?
Your job posting is often a job-seeker’s first impression of your company’s competency. Since like is attracted to like, competent employees are attracted to clear and competent job postings; they’re not going to waste their time applying for a sketchy opening. And you’re not going to look very competent if you’re including these red flags […]
Never Say These Things During Your Performance Review!
Performance reviews can be super stressful and uncomfortable, especially if you’re only getting feedback once a year. And when you’re stressed and uncomfortable, your thoughts and words don’t always come so easily—sometimes they even come out wrong! And you don’t want to botch this valuable opportunity to showcase your hard work, especially if you are […]
The Awesome Culture of Servant Leadership
Say you’re the pharaoh of a large company. (Just go with it—you get a fun headdress!) What if, instead of the team buzzing crazily to support your commands from the top of the pyramid, you helped to support their efforts from the base?
The Surprising Truth of Your Employees’ Motivation
What makes your employees tick? You may think it’s the paycheck, profit-sharing, or the annual holiday party at Applebee’s. But wait! While it is tempting to bond over a basket of riblets, these perks are actually long-game motivators—they don’t really help an employee push through the pain on a Monday morning. No, the best tool […]
Ideal Times to Conduct Business that Maximizes ROI
The short answer: Not Mondays or Fridays. Not to say Mondays and Fridays are throwaway days, but this goes to show, that 3-hour all-staff “week in review” meeting is not your best bet on a Friday morning (or ever, because who wants to sit through a 3-hour meeting?). When it comes to conducting important business, […]
Get More Professional in 2019
You’ve taken the trainings and learned the programs, but how confident do you feel about your overall career outlook this year? Your soft skills—particularly your professional presence—can make or break your chances of success as much as (if not more than) your hard skills. The goods news? You can shape an intentional professional presence. And […]
What to Do When You Make a Bad Hire
Management IssuesRecruitment and Retention
It’s tough living under a significant mistake, especially when one of your new hires doesn’t work out. You made your bed, tossed and turned in it for a time, all while slowly realizing you might need to buy a new mattress. After much lost sleep, you’re ready to admit you made a bad hire. But […]
When It’s Time to Admit You Made a Bad Hire
Management IssuesRecruitment and Retention
It’s tough to admit a new employee is not the star you’d hoped for. But when you see these signs of a bad hire, you’ll need to act fast.
Are You Meeting Your New Hires’ Expectations?
First-year turnover hurts! It’s expensive and time consuming. And when, according to some studies, as many as 40 percent of new hires leave almost right after they start work, with an additional 10 to 20 percent leaving within the first year—it’s just plain discouraging. Keeping in mind most employees leave because their day-to-day role wasn’t […]
How to Add Confidence to Your Everyday Speech
December 2018’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which explores words that undermine your confidence and credibility in day-to-day business. Do you think perhaps maybe possibly we could help you sound a little more confident? by Kathi Guiney, GPHR, SPHR, SCP, President, YES! Your Human Resources Solution & Jocelyn Schamber, […]
Your Coworkers Should Come With Manuals
We often hear new parents say that their baby should come with a manual—a guidebook on how to deal with this tiny, unknown human. Wouldn’t that be easier, to know how to best support someone if that person can’t communicate their needs? Now let’s apply this thinking to an office team. In this melting pot […]
How to Compete With an Internal Job Candidate
Phantom jobs. They look like real job postings, but these positions are secretly pre-promised to internal candidates. For everyone else, these jobs are a waste of good PTO and dry-cleaning costs. And we all hate phantom jobs because we don’t know when we’re applying for them. Nobody likes to be set up to fail. So […]
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The “better” way to conduct layoffs
Layoffs are hard on everyone. Even as business leaders and HR professionals, layoffs are one of the hardest things we have to do. Regrettably, many of us remember this from the all-too-recent pandemic layoffs. Layoffs are a reality we may soon face again as the threat of recession looms. And while we may not have […]
Resolve conflict like a champ
We’re hard-pressed to say conflict resolution is a fun or glamorous part of a Human Resources or leadership role, but it’s one of the most critical parts. How you mediate conflict impacts employee morale and retention, and also shows your leadership abilities and your willingness to tackle the tough stuff. Your conflict resolution skills can […]
Stop! and hire this candidate
It’s easy to criticize potential hires and spot reasons why we shouldn’t hire them. That one is too arrogant, that one lacks technical skills, and that one knows nothing about the company. Process of elimination, right? But too often we fail to recognize the positive reasons why we should hire someone. Positive flags can be […]
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