So you are hiring new employees and have narrowed your stack of resumes to the 10 or so top candidates, now it's time to start setting up interviews. If you dread this portion of the process, you're not alone. Fortunately, there are some ways to put both yourself and the candidates at ease - and make sure you get all the information you need to mak

It seem that the only time people are open to change is when what they have always done no longer works for them. In other words when our needs are no longer being met by previous behaviors, thought patterns or procedures. Your task as a CEO or manager is to show your staff that this applies to your business as well. When certain procedures and p

Lighten up! Okay, that may be hard advice for anyone who hears that phrase on the job, but humor in the workplace is more than possible and without getting served a pink slip either. A good laugh now and then will do wonders for you, as smiling and laughing lowers your stress levels (a godsend in the sales industry), wins you a friendly reputation

It is possible to easily improve the performance of an employee following five simple secrets. These techniques increase the efficiency of your business and guarantee success. These five performance boosters are easy to learn and apply. These five things are not profit margin, gains, losses, tax deductions, or assets - but instead are the huma

Whatever else you are doing - STOP! - whenever you engage with someone in conversation. Ignore pagers. Put off interruptions. At the very least make sure that you 'honour' the space that you have when you are in any sort of one-to-one with someone else. If you have ever been in conversation with someone who was being continually interrupted, how

I was giving a presentation on " the Value of Recognition" to the office workers of a large Canadian City. The City Commissioner ended his welcome to those present with these words, " I have an open door policy so I want to encourage you to come and talk to me when you have a concern." When he left I heard a couple of people in the front row say w

As a retired manager in a multi-country company, I have found that buying the right corporate gift for employee reward programs, customers or for corporate celebrations in general, can become a challenging task. Giving it is worse since you have the intention to gain business ties, connect with clients, and send your message of giving thanks. Altho

When I worked as a waiter in Austria, my native country, I worked hard (90 hours a week for about nine months in a row, never a day off). An American tourist told me that I was working too hard to ever make money. I replied that I loved my job and that I made good money. He smiled, patted me on the shoulder and said that he was happy for me. He

It used to be people could put anything down on a resume and run very little risk of it being checked out. But, as more and more horror stories surface about employees not having the backgrounds they said they did, employers are making this a standard practice. Thanks to the Internet, completing background checks is now quick, easy and a whole

It's hard to equate team building exercises and fun together, but enthralling scavenger hunts can not only create laughter and good times, but shows real strengths in co-workers. Team building in Boston takes on a whole new flavor as your company team can tour Boston in search of clues rediscovering typical haunts and finding new discoveries both

A company's success is not measured by a single factor. There are a myriad of factors that can lend to the success or failure of a corporate company including funding, management competence, working in a product or service that has a demand, and employee cohesiveness. The latter is perhaps the most complicated factor to measure and maintain as so m

In a continuously developing country, Achieving great competence and globalization wouldn?t be triumphant without having manpower. Human beings, in a world of manufacturing, are coined as commodity resources. It is not just right to treat them as a commodity; rather they should be termed as social beings wherein their contributions through labor a

Recruiting staff has never been easy. But with changes to legislation employers are having to be ever more careful as they assess candidates. An employer's first responsibility of course is to recruit the best possible candidate for the job; but increasingly, they must also be able to demonstrate that the process used for selection was fair, tran

The good manager learns from day one that maximizing your resources is essential to good organizational management. Whether it's people, materials, or money, using the resources on hand is the difference between success and failure. No resource is more critical or more hard to manage than your most valuable asset,your people. It is the law of

Managing conflict with coworkers doesn't have to be difficult. In this article are eight simple rules that should both help you deal with conflict and improve your relationships at work. Rule 1: See conflict as an opportunity Your perception of conflict has a direct impact on how it plays out in your life. If you embrace conflict and see it a