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Leadership Do’s and Don’ts
To some extent, one’s capacity to be a good leader is innate. However, learning to lead more effectively is something anyone can do. While leading a company, team, or merely one employee can be extremely exciting, during times of stress it’s easy to let negative emotions get to you. During these times, it’s important to […]
Nine Ways to be Continuously Successful at your Workplace
It’s not uncommon for people who’ve been working at one job for a long time to feel “stuck” in terms of success. Many people in this position feel as though they have no room for growth. In-turn, they get stuck in an agonizing process of merely “going through the motions” every single day. Yet, the […]
6 Tips to be Healthier at Work
We’ve all heard horror stories involving the various struggles working professionals face with maintaining their health. These stories often involve things like weight gain, depression, back pain, carpal tunnel, and so on. Yet, what often causes these health issues is ignorance to the common workplace activities that can largely decrease one’s health. These activities include […]
How To: Make Employees Want to Stay at Your Company Forever
Hiring employees is only the beginning of creating a strong work place. In order to build on this strength, every company must learn how to retain employees. If you are constantly focused on employee turnover, you ultimately end up devoting less and less time to the more important aspects of your business. Moreover, the longer […]
Marketing Events on Social Networks: Do’s and Dont’s
3 out of every 4 marketers consider social media to be very important for event marketing. Yet, what many people fail to see, is social media can only be a positive contributor to an event’s success if used properly. With this, most companies efforts to promote their events on social media provide them with little […]
7 Steps to Hosting a Successful Meeting
Corporate meetings are known for being boring and pointless. They drain our energy, waste our time, and often add up to costly numbers for the company hosting. Moreover, not only do meetings themselves take time, but preparing for them can take even longer. Therefore, the question becomes, what’s the point in hosting a meeting? And, […]
The Importance of Corporate Culture for Any Organization
Out of the many things done to start-up and maintain an organization, I find it surprising that the idea of corporate culture has been largely ignored and perceived as rather unimportant by various organizations.
Keeping up with Effective Employee Recognition in the Workplace
Many companies find employee recognition one of their most difficult tasks. This is often due to the fact that because every employee is different, it becomes exceedingly hard to find a “common ground” for an appropriate employee recognition strategy. Yet, if you want to keep up with the challenge of employee recognition, you need to […]
Why Telling your Team to “Treat Others Like You Want to be Treated,” Isn’t Good Advice
The importance of customer service in business is largely overlooked. Whether you sell products or services, and run a small or large company, premium customer service is of equal importance to your continued growth and success. Yet, achieving outstanding customer service in any business is a challenge. People are vastly different and, quite frankly, often difficult […]
7 Steps to Developing a Remarkable Team
For a long time, the overall idea of team building carried a negative image. Yet, in more recent years, people have largely began to notice the significance of team building within their company’s. Top leaders have come to know that it takes a successful team, in order to grow a successful business.
The Positive Results of Effective Team Building: Transforming Your Company
We often hear talk about the effectiveness of team building in the corporate world. Yet, while we might believe what we hear, do we actually know how team building brings positive results to our company? For many, the answer is no. Little information is noted on the subject. With this, we’ve created a list of […]
Corporate Event Planning: Do’s and Don’ts
If you’ve ever hosted a corporate event, than you’ve probably experienced one or more that haven’t gone so well. Attendees barely mingle, we feel the pressure of having to continuously come up with conversation to avoid complete embarrassment, and everyone leaves much earlier than we originally expected they would. It’s a complete fail and, typically, […]
DIY Corporate Event Hacks: Spice Things Up in Your Office!
Do you ever feel like the reason behind your employees boredom at work is due to a little “too much consistency” at your office? Maybe you throw a few staff parties every year, and go out for dinner and drinks with a group of employees every now and again, but is that really enough? If […]
Developing an Employee Retention Strategy that Sticks
In my junior year of college as an undergraduate, I took a marketing class with a young, female professor. The class focused on aspects of corporate culture, customer relationship management, and most importantly, employee retention. While the class itself was great, how I truly came to know and understand the concept of employee retention, was […]
The Key to Awesome Employees
What’s the key to awesome employees? Keeping them happy and inspired of course! Yet, the issue in doing this is that it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Leaders and bosses struggle to inspire their employees, and to keep them happy, for a number of different reasons. Most commonly, these reasons include getting hung up […]
The Secret to Team Accomplishment
As a leader, it’s not only your job to consistently remind your team of the overall mission and goals they’re working towards, but also to encourage and motivate them along the way. Often, perfectly good leaders get hung up on the larger goal they’re trying to accomplish, and forget to motivate and encourage their team […]
Dealing with Difficult Team Members
Let’s be honest, we’ve all dealt with difficult team members at one point or another. People who perhaps refuse to stick to their word and to do their part, show up late all the time, are always complaining and casting unwanted negativity on the rest of the team, or maybe just disrupting team efficiency altogether. […]
Ways to Avoid Burnout
As we begin our corporate adventures of the new year, it’s important to remember the importance of encouraging continued motivation and inspiration for our work. Importance for this idea lies in avoiding mid-year burn-out. I realize this may sound like a far-fetched idea considering many of you are most likely still holding on to the […]
How to: Strengthen Teamwork in the Workplace
So maybe teamwork in your workplace isn’t so bad after all. Yet, you feel it could be a lot stronger. You wonder, is it the people you’ve hired? How you’ve divided these individuals up? Is there something wrong with you?! The answer is most likely, none of the above.
Encouraging Team Loyalty
At a very young age, most of us learn that everyone is different. Whether we were told by our parents or picked it up ourselves, we all learned this valuable lesson. Yet, surprisingly, many team leaders forget this when working with their members. In doing this, they end up treating individual members as mere employees grouped into […]
6 Simple Ways to Enjoy Your Work, Daily
After years of working in corporate America, many people begin to despise their everyday work and forget that there are many simple ways to make workdays more interesting and rewarding. With this, we’ve created a list of 6 simple ways to enjoy your work, daily. While reading these, keep in mind that boosting the overall […]