Business

Manner Monday: Requesting an appointment for Conference Call

When sending an email to request an appointment for a Conference Call – be precise and to the point in what you plan to discuss and how much time you are requesting. Sharing as much information during the initial request helps all parties to be effective, relevant and professional participants during the conference call. Not [...]

June 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Top Companies Leverage Internal Social Networks

by Lisa Bonner

At the recent Working Mother Women’s Leadership Summit on Social Business, Sandy Carter, VP Social Business Evangelism at IBM, reported that 43% of companies are using social networks both internally and externally. She also cited a recent a McKinsey Global Institute Study (July 2012) revealing that 90% of businesses integrating social networks are experiencing a [...]

June 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Great Teams Need Great Managers

by Mike Haberman

A study of sales teams and the need for great sales managers has revealed what I consider a truth about all teams: great teams need great managers. A blog post on the Harvard Business Review by Zoltner, Sinha and Lorimer entitled To Build A Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager discussed the experience of the three [...]

June 10, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Manner Monday: Text to Landline Messages

by CareySue Vega

As we all know, advancements in technology have blurred the lines when it comes to telephones and working environments. It’s hard to determine if someone’s phone number is his or her office phone number or a residential home office, and it seems everyone is (or appears to be) accessible 24/7. Landline phones in the home [...]

June 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Organizations Strive for a New Level of Inclusiveness

by Lisa Bonner

Companies are putting a renewed focus on getting employee engagement practices right in 2013 and are striving for a new level of inclusiveness. Traditionally, inclusion was pair with diversity (as in Diversity & Inclusion) and implied a sense of “feeling included’ regardless of skin color, origin, culture or sexual orientation. Forward thinking executives have re-positioned inclusiveness as [...]

June 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Clarifying Leave of Absence Policies

by Stephanie Hammerwold

I was recently talking with an employee to go over his leave rights. He found out his mom was very sick and needed to travel out of state to be with her. He planned to leave the next day, so we were talking by phone as he was packing his bag. I started throwing out [...]

May 31, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

6 Tips for Virtual Onboarding

by Heather R. Huhman

With constant changes in technology in the workplace, more and more companies are hiring virtual employees. According to a survey last year, 46 percent organizations used virtual teams. This number is bound to have increased since. Virtual employees present a new challenge for companies. How can companies effectively onboard these workers? Here are six tips [...]

May 24, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How Can a Powerful HR Department Help Your Business Expand/Evolve/Grow

by Eric Friedman

The Human Resources department is one of the most vital and influential departments within any organization. They are tasked with hiring and managing multiple levels of staff from your hourly worker to a salaried manager and in some cases a c-level executive. Even though this department doesn’t have employees report to them, they’re in charge [...]

May 23, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Is Your Advice Hypocritical?

by Chris Ponder

This blog was originally posted by Justin Harris on the Peformance I Create blog. Every other Wednesday, Blogging4Jobs will feature a guest post from the up-and-coming multi-contributor blog, Performance I Create. As I speak with colleagues and look at different organizations in regards to effectiveness and buy-in, I see a consistent theme: managers talk too much. There’s [...]

May 8, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Do a Better Job of Managing Your Brand Touchpoints!

by Micheal Vandervort

Executives: Talk to your employees! There is a really good article in Fortune reminding executives they be doing a much better job of communicating with employees who don’t work at a desk. If your business depends on an army of delivery drivers, cooks, and waitpersons, retail sales staffers, field technicians, or other employees who move around [...]

May 6, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Designing an Engaging Workplace Harassment Training

by Stephanie Hammerwold

When I recently brought up mandatory harassment training for supervisory employees in my workplace, I heard people say, “Didn’t I just do that last year?” I knew that I was going to be facing a tough crowd when I did my presentations. Even I was doubtful I’d be able to provide an engaging presentation. I’ve [...]

May 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Blogging4Jobs Listed as a Top 100 Social Media Site by PR Giant, Cision

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

I’m so excited that I’m over the moon. Cision, one of the leading public relations distribution tools and resources has listed Blogging4Jobs as a Top 100 Social Media Resource in their 2013 list. You can view the list in it’s entirety by clicking here. I’m over the moon that our site here with 24 different writers is being [...]

May 2, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

It’s Earth Day: Easy Ways to Be Green at Work

by shannonsmedstad

I’ve always been a little crunchy: my family composts, we have a rain barrel, I use my own bags at the grocery store and I’m a fanatic about turning off the lights. Working from home for the past seven years as enabled me to reduce my carbon footprint, too. Every little bit counts, but I [...]

April 22, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Legislative Update: NLRB: It’s Broke and You Can’t Fix It!

by Micheal Vandervort

Fast, Furious, Ineffective Dysfunctional continues to be the watchword regarding news related to the National Labor Relations Board. The activity related to fixing the operational problems is moving at a fast and furious, but mostly ineffectual pace. Here’s a news summary with some relevant links for you to check out. New NLRB Nominations President Obama is attempting to return [...]

April 16, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Five Steps to Better Wage & Hour Compliance

by Mike Haberman

First off let me get the disclaimer out of the way. I am NOT an attorney. I am NOT providing legal advice. I am making these statements from the perspective of an HR professional, consultant and HR instructor that has dealt with Wage & Hour issues for a long time. With that said here is [...]

April 9, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Casual But Powerful: Conversations that Need to Happen

by Ray_anne

A Conference of the Minds In the past, I have had the incredible good fortune of attending the ERE Spring Expo in San Diego – this is a conference and expo geared toward in-house or corporate hiring professionals. I am a big fan of any gathering where great minds, incredible technology, and brilliant conversations are [...]

April 9, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Tuning In To Life Outside of Your Bubble

by shannonsmedstad

In our 24/7, global world of information overload, it’s sort of ironic that we can still find ourselves living in our own little bubbles. I find that there is so much going on with work and life, that I sometimes lose touch with what’s going on outside of my work-at-home-mom-world. Sure, I have LinkedIn, Twitter [...]

April 8, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Should Managers Trust Their Employees, or Spy on Them?

by Jody Thompson

One of my followers on twitter (“Pete”) sent me a link the other day that blew me away. Well, it shouldn’t have surprised me, but somehow this stuff keeps surprising me anyway. Pete was engaged in a lively discussion on his LinkedIn group about this topic: “Should managers trust their employees?” Most of the managers [...]