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Six-Time Rewind: How to Leave Courteous Voicemails
A 20-second voicemail can become a 5-minute battle that ruins someone’s professional image. Here’s how to avoid it being yours.
Should Your Office Have a Dress Code?
Pros and cons to decide if a dress code might do your office more harm than good.
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Your relationship with Time: “It’s Complicated” or solidly “In a Relationship”?
Why You Need a Professional Mentor
If you hit all your projects out of the park, why you may need a boost up the corporate ladder.
Are You Creating Negative Employees?
Four ways management turns good employees bad.
5 Secret Skills of a Great New Hire (According to Your Boss)
Managers won’t say it during an interview, but they really really really hope you come with this set of secret skills.
Body Language to Avoid During an Interview
…because you want to be remembered for your skills and accomplishments, not your over-the-top gesticulating.
What Can a Boss Ask Employees Who Call In Sick?
Seeing more empty office chairs this flu season? Flu cases are quickly increasing across the country, both of seasonal flu and swine flu, with further increases expected in the weeks ahead. So as the boss, if you’re not home sick with the flu too, you may be stuck managing a skeleton crew of healthy employees. […]
Six Tips to Better Business Email Etiquette
If your email has more exclamation points than the latest kitten meme, you need these guidelines.
Office Romances: Not All Flowers and Candy!
You can’t prevent office romances, but you can PREP to keep them under control!
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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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