Posts Categorized: Leadership
4 Good Ways to Keep Your Best Employees
Employee retention is a constant struggle that many companies deal with all the time. If yours is in the same boat, you may find yourself wondering how to keep your best employees from leaving. Often, the solution isn’t simply paying them more, as there are other considerations you need to take into account. Here are…
What Is An Administrative Assistant Job Like?
The administrative assistant is an important role in any company. They have a wide variety of job functions that vary from industry to industry and company to company. The absolute basic job responsibility of an administrative assistant is supporting executives and management. However, beyond this, what is an administrative assistant job like? Are you interested…
How to Keep Your Best Employees From Leaving
If you’re finding yourself filling vacancies left and right, it might be time to investigate the high turnover rate. This is especially the case if your top talent are also leaving for better opportunities. There may be a key oversight in your business operations that is causing the exodus of employees. Not to worry, though!…
3 Tips For Conducting Your Virtual Meetings
With many in-person job functions now operating remotely, virtual meetings have taken the place of conference room meetings. If your business is in this unique position due to the pandemic, you need to be ready. Contrary to what you might think, virtual meetings aren’t as simple as just signing onto Skype and talking. You can…
How You Can Help Build a Positive Working Environment
As an employee, it is not directly your responsibility to build a positive working environment. However, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do to help. A positive working environment is healthy, communicates well, and produces high-quality outcomes consistently. When the entire company works well together, everything runs much more smoothly. Your co-workers, managers, and…
Use Interviews to Figure Out Candidate Strengths
Interviews are the best opportunity to find out what strengths a job candidate has beyond their credentials. A resume only tells you what they want you to know. Beyond that, you’re on your own as far as figuring out the rest. How can you uncover a candidate’s true strengths in an interview? Here are some…
How to Make Your Temporary Employees Feel Welcome
When part of your workforce is composed of temporary workers, you may experience some friction, or lack of cooperation, between your temps and full-time employees. Taking care of all your employees, regardless of status, will ensure your business is running smoothly. It will also help you establish a good, or better, reputation in the industry…
Dealing With Abrasive Personality Types on Your Team
When dealing with abrasive personality types on your team, you may be faced with some challenges. If they are a top performer and replacing them isn’t an option, you might feel stuck. Replacing them can be expensive. It also might not be in your best interest, either. At this point, it begs the question: how…
Why You Should Partner With a Staffing Agency in 2020
Finding the right person for your business’ needs is never something you should take lightly. Finding the ideal candidate might take too long. It may also lead to a bad hire, and it could cost your company thousands of dollars and waste hundreds of hours of productivity. We don’t want that to happen! If you’ve…
Staff Retention: Why It Matters and What You Should Do
In the current competitive labor market, finding the right employees can be a big hassle. Because of this, it might be a good idea to shift focus to retention efforts and keep staff turnover low. © fizkes / Adobe Stock Staff retention is important because you want to make sure your current employees…