3 Tips for Empathetic Decision Making
When you're leading companies or teams, it's important to make wise, empathetic decisions. Considerate decision making is empathetic decision making, keeping all of your stakeholders, from clients to employees, in mind. Before moving forward, especially with big decisions, leaders should have an understanding of how that decision will affect everyone involved. This makes it easy to predict any potential push-back and preemptively deal with problems and complaints resulting from change. How to keep your decision [...]
Disconnecting to Recharge
No one can deny that it's healthy to disconnect and recharge for work occasionally. According to the research of YoungAh Park from Kansas State University, people who do unplug from their job during off hours experience lower levels of fatigue and job burnout. Disconnecting to recharge can also help you increase productivity and solve problems more effectively. Below are a few ways you can disconnect to recharge for work. If we've missed your favorite tip, [...]
3 Tips for Company Growth
Most businesses have the end goal of sustainable growth, continually generating more (and better) clients and revenue. After working with multiple companies and seeing their successes, we've compiled 3 tips for company growth that you can implement at your business. Tips for Company Growth 1. Evaluate your existing clients Look at the clients that are taking up too much of your team's time for minimal reward. Focus on the 20% of your clients who provide [...]
Reading list for HR professionals
Do you work in talent acquisition, retention, or evaluation? This reading list for HR professionals will get you up to speed in the latest HR news. First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently By Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman This book goes over the concept of innovative methods to create productive, efficient teams. The book studies various managers across industries and what makes them great, and it goes over smart lessons [...]
The cost of toxic employees
The cost of toxic employees is no small amount. They aren't felt simply in monetary loss, but in the loss of time and morale they cost the entire team. So much thought is put into finding top performers that we don't as consciously avoid the toxic hires as carefully as we should. According to re:Work, one toxic employee can wipe out the gains of two top performers in a company. The cost of toxic employees can [...]