Allowing For Employee Failure When Pushing Them To Grow Your people need to feel safe when you encourage them to step beyond their comfort zones. Support their efforts in the ways they need most.
Why Tolerance In The Workplace Means Smart Business Diversity in the workforce pays big dividends, according to research, driving innovation and powering productivity, profit and people performance.
Tips for Creating Slogans and Taglines Understand the difference between these marketing identifiers and know when to use which.
Creating A Bring Your Own Device Policy How to maintain privacy, security and acceptable use when staff bring their own tech.
Business Plans For Small Businesses Companies that need start-up or expansion bucks seek financing. That’s what a business plan’s for. It shows what the small enterprise is (or will be), how it’ll rake in income, and ways those dinars will get spent. There are funding sources galore. Except for banks, government grants and angel investors will want proof your idea […]
Let Your Employees Disconnect From Work After Hours Carefully put a policy in place that specifies who can be contacted when, and for what.It’s gotten to the point where Wellness Tourism’s a thing. Yep. Flush burnouts pay huge for primitive resorts where all devices – and any internet – are banned. What’s that tell you?After hours intrusions on employees are rampant. 9:30 p.m., answer this text NOW. 6:15 a.m., I’m up, what about you, slacker (via Slack yet, oh the irony).What, just cuz you’re a life-ducking workaholic your staff has to be enslaved? Unless you’re also a glutton for increased claims of stress-related illnesses, lawsuits for unpaid overtime, and bitterness among those who feel trapped into replying no matter when putting a disconnect policy in place!
9 Tips To Up Productivity Via Calmer Workplaces It’s a little counter-intuitive, but some tranquillity might beat the constant hustle and bustle.Seeing the office buzz like a hive of killer bees warms management’s hearts. The more bustle, the more output. Assuming, mind you, said hubbub ain’t just a swarm of disorganized frantic.If it’s productivity you want, maybe calm things down a hint. Rushed deadlines and forced face-time do not an on fleek staff maketh. Well, for a while yeah, then it’s burnout (and turnover) city.
Demoting Someone Legally Can Seem Like Mission Impossible You’re not Ethan Hunt. The employee ain’t no femme fatale. But by being a villain, you might get sued for constructive dismissal.Blockbuster action flicks make your adrenalin gush. Tom Cruise daring a mid-air helicopter leap leaves you on the edge of your seat.Demoting an employee without causing a meltdown (sans dirty bombs) can feel like the new Mission: Impossible movie. The fallout from failing could be catastrophic: an explosive lawsuit for constructive dismissal.
Making Summer Hours Work Give staff a slightly reduced work week when warm weather (finally) appears. “Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.” Bryan Procter, English poet, 1787Sapphire throne my tush, Bryan. Summer nights are so 18th century. Workers crave daytimes. Fleeing the office early, to frolic in climate Canadians would sell a (frostbitten) limb for by mid-February.
Queer Credentials For Employers Showing workplace Pride is one thing. Getting certified for LGBTQ commitment’s a whole ‘nother level.Surprised to hear there are queer credentials for Canadian employers? A couple certifications spring to mind. At least one is for learning how to be more inclusive. Another qualifies small businesses as LGBTQ owned and operated suppliers.
Job Sharing Helps Staff Have More Flexibility Keeping good people sometimes means offering unconventional work arrangements, such as role splitting between two workers.You can split hairs. But jobs? Why not. Work-sharing programs twin two people in a single position. Flexible arrangements help keep some good workers.
5 Advantages Of Offering Flex-Time As A Perk Standard work schedules are too restrictive for some. Offering staggered hours can be a manageable solution.
Transparency in corporate speak? The workplace can be filled with a multitude of personality types all with contrasting communication styles. Some meek, others with egos raging. Enter office politics, a corporate ladder to climb, all while managing your own personal ambitions and you've got one hell of a migraine by 5 o'clock.