Learning from the Best: Redbrick Health (#25) Finding the right answers to making a small business work is not always easy. Good thing there are leaders making it work whom we can learn from. From the annual Best Companies to Work For survey by the Great Place to Work Institute and SHRM, we have 25 [...]
I can’t remember how many times I’ve had to talk a manager through a tough discussion with an employee. No one likes to be on the receiving end of tough counseling and very few people like giving it. I know Mary Poppins said “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” but when talking [...]
… with this counsel on solving attitude problems. In discussing how to deal with employee attitude problems, the author(s) of this article at Training Time describes a difficult employee situation and how to resolve it. The Attitude Problem: “Jane is a nightmare to work with. She’s bossy. Troublesome. Swears like a sailor. Demands that everyone [...]
I’ve used the term ‘job fit’ in earlier posts as I comment on how important it is to focus your process of selecting people for roles (not just hiring – but also promotion, transfer, etc.) I noticed today a post by Warren Rutherford identifying different kinds of [tag]job fit[/tag] and thought it valuable to tie [...]
Just what makes employees successful in their jobs? Is it [tag]skills[/tag]? Or is it [tag]abilities[/tag]? Does it end there? More importantly, what is it that makes for [tag]profitable employees[/tag] for your [tag]business[/tag] when they are in your [tag]workforce[/tag]? I noticed a recent excellent post by Jason on “Recruiting Front Lines” discussing skills inventory for employees. [...]
I recently spoke to a group and asked how many had fired an employee — about 3/4ths of the people raised their hands. I then asked how many of those people believed that same employee would be an excellent addition to their staff when they hired them — I think all the same people raised [...]
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