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Office Spring Cleaning: Keep the Dust Bunnies at Bay
Spring Cleaning called—and it wants to meet with your office right away.
What to Consider in Your Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy
“Technology creep” is all around us these days: a pause in a conversation, and someone is checking their phone. It’s happening in business, too: employees check their phones and even write text messages during meetings, sometimes to other people at the table! Technology has come so far as to remotely access employer resources, that maintaining […]
The Name Game
March 2017’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! article, which offers tips for gracefully getting past forgetting a name. How many times have you been in that awkward situation of trying to entice a person to say their own name so you can introduce them to someone else? You could try the classic, “Hey […]
4 Tips for an Effective Skip-Level Meeting
Management IssuesMeeting Management
A skip-level meeting helps organizational leaders find out what’s happening at ground level.
4 Skills That Will Make You a Better Manager
Promotions aren’t about seniority anymore, or even who is best at what they do! Whether you’re a manager now or you want to become one, you’ll need to develop the soft skills that make a strong leader. Working on these four critical areas will help you lead your employees to success.
How to Survive a Bad Work Week
Are you having a week you just wish would end? Whether it’s a sweat-inducing deadline, a missed promotion, or another clash with that coworker, we all have weeks concocted from the very bowels of Hades—ones that cost us our sleep and sanity. But take heart! The week will end, and these four tips can help […]
What NOT to Say to Your Boss
Does your team barely say hello and goodbye, or do you regularly rock Friday night karaoke? Office culture is always evolving, and each office’s culture is different. But if you’re new to Corporate America, you may not know where you fit into that culture just yet, especially around your boss, who has the power to […]
Get Paid What You’re Worth in 2017
For when you know you’re underpaid, or naggingly suspect you are.
How to Keep Your 2017 New Year’s Resolution
There’s no better time to steer your life.
Keep Your Resolution to Live Healthier (at Work!)
Get more from the hours you have with these five healthy lifestyle choices you can make at work.
Human Resources Managers’ Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions
Hey there, 2017! We are so happy to see you after the year many of us had. We’re grateful for this fresh start—365 blank pages to write a better story for ourselves, personally and professionally. And for those of us in Human Resources, we’re also using those pages to write better stories for our team. […]
Don’t Work During Your Holiday Vacation!
Employee SchedulingEmployee Wellness
How to set yourself up for success when you leave the office.
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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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