April 30th, 2009

How Do You Inspire Your Team?

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 [...]

April 9th, 2009

How To Attract and Talk To Women

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 [...]

March 17th, 2009

Having a Job Interview System Makes It Easier—And More Effective

I believe job interviews are far too important to leave them to chance or to conduct them unprepared. Over my 30+ years owning an insurance agency, I’ve made it my business to learn how to do meaningful job interviews—and formulate the kind of interview questions that will tell me what I really want to know [...]

January 20th, 2009

Job Interview Questions…Are You Prepared With the Right Ones?

In my experience, many business owners mistakenly believe they know how to conduct a great job interview. They often wing it, relying on their gut instincts in the moment and fail to prepare at all. Then they wonder why they can’t ever find great people to hire—or why the ones they do hire don’t work [...]