Small Hacks to Make Your Employees Happier and Improve Employee Retention Rate
Sometimes employees don’t feel engaged at work, leading to a less-than-positive work ethic and environment. That doesn’t mean employers should stream cat videos on a loop to keep workers alert, but engaged employees mean engaged customers.
According to a 2015 Gallup Poll, 32 percent of American employees feel engaged at work, while 50.8 percent of …
4 Questions to Consider When Choosing the Right Mentor
A mentor can help you get ahead of your coworkers and increase your chances of getting promoted. However, you should be careful when choosing your mentor. Sometimes a person feels just right but in other cases, you need to make some evaluations before starting the relationship. Below are some questions that will help you choose …
3 Simple Ways to Increase Empathy at Work
If you want to move up the career ladder, it is not enough to have great technical abilities or know how. You need to have personal skills as well. Think about a manager who is great at technical details but cannot get along with his/her team, then how can this manager manage a project if …
The Truth About Annoying Coworkers
This week I want to share with you an interesting infographic titled “The Truth about Annoying Coworkers”. This infographic has shared with me by the graduate school at Olivet Nazarene University. Most of us work at least 40 hours a week and this means that we see our coworkers more than we see our family. …
Common Office Design Mistakes to Avoid
Most business owners don’t invest enough time and budget for their office designs. However, office design plays an important role in your employees’ productivity in addition to your brand image.
A badly designed office may create a negative atmosphere killing creativity, collaboration, and employee morale. It also affects your brand image in the eyes of …
How to Choose Between Two Outstanding Candidates
The need to choose between two outstanding candidates is an interesting and a desirable dilemma for employers. However, as an employer, you need to act fast and decide which one to hire. If you don’t know how to decide between the two, below you can find some ideas.
Try to Find Out Who is More…
Challenges Unique To Female Entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs are not new to the American workforce. While the laws that protect women in the corporate world have been hard-won and are still being fought for, modern-day business has significantly benefited from the activity of female entrepreneurs and business leaders.
You can trace the feminine presence in the workforce as far back as …
Why You Still Need Business Cards Infographic
Venngage, the infographic creator website, created a great infographic for my previous blog post “Why You Still Need Business Cards“. This week I wanted to share this infographic with all of you and again highlight the importance of having business cards for everybody.
Why Soft Skills are Important for Your Career
We are living in the tech world and it is obvious that everybody should have basic technical skills. Unfortunately, technical skills solely are not enough, if you want to move up the corporate ladder. You should also have great soft skills. Think of a manager who cannot explain what he wants from his team or …
Why is Employee Recognition Important?
Every human being wants to be recognized and appreciated for the work they do because they like to see the reward of their efforts. However, managers often wait until the annual performance review day to give their feedbacks and show their recognitions. Managers shouldn’t wait only one day of the year to recognize their employees. …