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An Employee Council: Get the Scoop
- As we work with businesses that have award-winning team culture, one of the keys to this is continual feedback on where the culture of the business is going. After all, you can’t know if you’re winning the game if you don’t know the score. This continual feedback leading to a stellar team culture is the […] Read More
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Burnout: Is Your Team Overwhelmed?
- Right now, as we discussed last week, for the businesses that are on a path to rapid growth, finding great employees is a tough job. The first strategy was to act quickly to hire, to avoid burning out the awesome employees that you’ve already got. The last thing that you want to do is to […] Read More
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Labor Shortage: Recruiting the Best
- A very hot topic among Business Owners, at least the ones that we work with every day, is that of being so busy with new business growth. However, with massive business growth comes the need to hire more employees quickly. Rather than getting into a negative mindset and giving up, therefore putting even more pressure […] Read More
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Carving Out Time for Employees: 3 Easy Tips
- Business Owners, especially Small Business Owners, wear many hats: Owner, Manager, Human Resources, CFO, Bookkeeping, Sales, Recruitment, and more. Finding the time to connect with employees is tough, especially in businesses that are “Essential” during the COVID-19 pandemic like Contruction & Trades, Veterinary, and more. These busy Business Owners are going through similar challenges right […] Read More
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New Leaders: What’s Your Strategy?
- Does your leadership development strategy involve making your best employee now the leader for the other employees and hoping for the best? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. It does make sense to pick your best worker and promote them. And that worker does need to enjoy increased salary, and perks for great job performance. But […] Read More
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Employees: What’s Your Training Program?
- Last week, we talked about hiring and onboarding a new employee. Once that first day comes and goes, it’s all about training. The last thing that an employee wants is to be excited about a new company, then defeated when they feel as if they’re going to have to teach themselves to do the work. […] Read More
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Onboarding: Plan to Keep Your Rock Stars
- Business is growing. Great! You’ve decided it’s time to grow your team. The recruiting process is lengthy and costly, but worth it to find a rock star candidate. Turnover is very expensive, often 30-40% of an employee’s annual salary, and can cause extreme shifts in customer service, company culture, and product or service quality. The […] Read More
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A Fresh Start for Team Culture
- Over the last few weeks we’ve explored goal-setting for your team, for you as a leader, but what about making sure that your team is focused, getting along, and working toward achieving your company’s goals? One of the #1 things that you can do to put the pedal to the metal is increasing Employee Engagement. […] Read More
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Celebrating the Holidays, Safely
- 2020 is a year like no other, and I don’t think there’s a soul out there that would doubt it! However, employees are likely expecting a special celebration of some sort, and it is not a time to cancel festivities when teams are overworked, stressed, and anxious. Business owners likely have this line item in […] Read More
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Leading Different Generations in Crisis
- We’ve all seen evidence of this throughout the entire pandemic, which is slowly becoming more normal than typical: different generations are handling this differently. Of course there are blurred lines between the generations, but if you look at the different generations: Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z, there are common threads […] Read More
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