Should You Screen Your Employees? Henry Ford once said: "Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes; the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand. The Irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." In addition to providing employees with a healthy and professional working environment, employers must also do whatever they can to maintain an optimum level of employee enthusiasm. These are the most common problems that modern day...more
When it comes to employment, emotional intelligence is a very relevant topic which most employers should have at least some grasp of in a business context. The term emotional intelligence refers to the individuals capacity to intuitively pick up on the emotions of others and to treat those emotions with an appropriate response. It also refers to the individuals ability to respond to their own emotions with self-awareness and caution. Many...more
How To Engage Employees - Part 3 In our first blog of this three part series, we discussed how important communication is when ` dealing with virtual employees. Without direct, effective communication between you and your employees, there will be no solid foundation for lasting engagement. In our last blog and podcast, we discussed how the DiSC behavioral profile could be used to recognize and adapt to the virtual employees in order to increase employee engagement. Now we're going to take a look at some additional steps toward increasing employee engagement.Now that you know how to recognize and adapt to the four different behavioral styles of your virtual employees, it's time to get actively involved in encouraging employee engagement among your virtual team. How do you do that?You must first be committed and engaged with your virtual employees.Be a coach and/or mentor.Follow through.But don't stop there! Be sure to provide recognition to the producers and the stars of your team, and give them honest, meaningful assessments. For those that don't produce, you can work to change their behavior by:Clearly telling them what you want.Discussing how to get those results.Rewarding...more
How Employee Assessments Can Improve Your Workforce Employees are the lifeblood of every organization. Most often the driving force behind fast growing, innovative and dynamic organizations is its valuable workforce. Hundreds of organizations have invested heavily in human resources development in recent years with programs such as talent...more
Novated Lease- Most Sought After By Employers And Employees A novated lease is a kind of automobile lease widespread in Australia that allocates a company to lease a motor vehicle, in support of, any member of the staff, with the accountability for the lease lying with the employee and the lease expenses being made from the employee's...more
The economy is poor, jobs are scarce, and because of that you may feel that you have to put up with things for fear of losing your job. Things you would not stand for at any other time but you do now because you are afraid that you will lose the job you have and not be able to find another one. This is a fear that hundreds of thousands of people have to deal with each and every day and it is not something you should go through. The fact is that you have rights, not only as an employee but as a human being and those rights need to be taken in consideration by your employer or a coworker. If they are not then you have the ability to protect yourself, physically, and financially. Employers may think that they can threaten you and even fire you to make a point but they have no rights over your life. If they mistreated you in any way and then terminated your employment because you stood up for yourself then you need to contact an employment lawyer today. if you are harassed in any way, no matter the severity of it, than you need to stand up for yourself. In many cases, harassment can be a point of a misunderstanding that will be solved with a simple intelligent conversation. But if that...more
Bringing Employees Together For an organization to succeed in the long run, it is important that its employees work as a team. Several companies and organizations around the world have achieved great milestones as a result of the joint efforts...more
Workforce engagement and satisfactionIt can come as no suprise that today's workforce (in all sectors) has serious concerns about job secruity. The fears are most pronounced amongst 18/24 year olds: nearly half of them are worried that they could...more
Celebrating Your Employees Employees work hard for your firm. Advertising items are a way to give back to the employees that have given you so much. While this surprise also benefits you because of the publicity it gets when viewed by an...more
You have just received your latest paycheck from your boss. You are probably now thinking of ways on how you will dispose that latest fruit of your several days of labor. Planning to buy a new watch or maybe treat yourself and your friends to a party...more
Create a Log In Form And Check List For Employee To Log In Embroidery Orders Logging in the orders is very important in order to keep complete control of your production process and know exactly what you have in house at all times.By creating...more
How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle or Difficult Employee All managers will need to learn that an employee they say is hard to handle is someone who has an issue tied to resentment, immaturity or low self esteem. Anger is the perfect cover-up for...more