Posts Categorized: Tips for the Workplace
Wrap up 2013 & Look to the Future!
Congratulations! You made it through another year! As you take a look back on 2013, review your annual goals. Did you achieve all your business objectives? If not, use these key steps to refocus your efforts and ensure that 2014 is a success. Celebrate Past Successes. Look back at 2013, and acknowledge your accomplishments. Congratulate Read more »
Anger Management Tactics for the Workplace
No matter which line of work you are in, everyone gets frustrated in their job at times. If you’re not careful, that frustration can get you in multitudes of conflict with your colleagues. Thankfully, there are tactics that can be used to manage anger and resolve workplace disagreements without having a fight. Take a deep Read more »
Building an Effective Employee Incentives Program
The success of your organization heavily depends on having high-performing, driven employees. While respecting your employees is a large part of the formula to keep them engaged, a structured incentive program can help set, meet, and exceed company goals. In fact, a recent survey found that 85% of employees who participate in a company-driven incentive Read more »
Strategies for Managing Different Personality Types
The most effective workplaces are made up of a dynamic group of employees, each whom has their own set of strengths and talents. However, when a team consists of diverse individuals, they also have different personality traits and work styles. Some employees take the slow and steady approach whereas some are constantly looking for more Read more »
Choosing the Right Candidate
Finding the right candidate for job is never an easy task. If you hire the wrong person it can be expensive, damaging to your work environment, and very time consuming. Hiring the correct person on the other hand will enhance your work culture and pay you back in high employee morale. You’ve pulled together a Read more »
What Should I Do Today?| Planning a Successful Workday
In a fast-paced industry, managing time efficiently is a skill many architects and engineers must pick up quickly. Learning how to plan your day and set work priorities can increase productivity, decrease stress, and reduce the amount of overtime hours you are putting in. Time management is more than jumping from task to task putting Read more »
Employee Retention Tips
A recent study by Randstad U.S. reported that 40 percent of U.S. workers said they’re planning to look for a new job within the next six months. Another 69% of employees admitted they are already passively shopping for other opportunities via social media. As an employer, these numbers should be frightening. You spend countless hours Read more »
Building a Culture of Performance
Corporate culture governs the way employees interact and work within the organization. For prospective employees and managers alike, the want to maintain a healthy work-life balance is becoming even more prevalent. Therefore, it is no surprise that people find the satisfaction of working for a company with a great culture as important as the job Read more »
Institutional Memory
Companies work hard to develop what is known as institutional knowledge; ways of doing things, procedures and policies that enable the company to perform effectively. But as hard as the company might work to grow this knowledge, over time, it often decays. Some of it may find its way into company policies and procedures, but Read more »
Onboarding the Right Way
In the past, orienting a new hire was usually relegated to some lower-level worker in the human resources department, and after that brief introduction to the company, the new employee was on his own. Now, however, things are different because businesses realize the importance of getting new employees up to speed, making them feel welcome Read more »