With all the chaos in the world around us—the economy, a pandemic looming, wars and more—it’s easy for a negative mood to infect your workplace and your team. All it takes is one person who watches too much cable news or subscribes to fear mongers from any source. That person might even be you! More [...]

I know you’re a leader. You wouldn’t own a business if you weren’t already a leader. My question for you today is: How well are you leading your tribe, and did you realize you have one? First off I want to recommend an excellent book on the subject: Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us [...]

Employee retention may seem less important in a down economy. After all, won’t there be lots of well-qualified applicants out there eager to work for you (perhaps even at a cut-rate salary)? That could be true, but you also have to wonder why these particular applicants were the ones who got let go? Yes, there [...]

No this isn’t a Dating Guide, but it is about how to appeal to women job seekers when writing your job descriptions. Let’s be honest. The majority of office workers are female. I won’t go into the psychology of why women are more attracted to that kind of work (or why they are often better [...]

It’s easy to use tough times as an excuse to slack off on employee appreciation efforts. After all, your employees should be grateful just to have a job, right? Well, sure, but you should also be grateful not to have to recruit, hire and train new employees any more than necessary, since that’s an expenditure [...]