When unemployment strikes, candidate pools widen. While it’s always great to have a broader range of candidates to choose from, it can also make hiring significantly harder. You have more resumes to sort through, the potential for far more interviews, and more challenging decisions to make. Partnering with a staffing firm can simplify the hiring… Read More »
You ask your employees to be in the office from 9 to 5 so everyone can work together and you can get projects done on time. A no-nonsense attendance policy makes sense: it controls costs and keeps things fair. Unfortunately, no-nonsense attendance policies no longer make sense to employees. Surveys find that flexible attendance is… Read More »
Leading a remote team already requires a unique approach based on strong communication and trust. Helping them navigate a crisis is a different story entirely. When a crisis hits, you need to support your team through it by doing more than fielding questions and delegating tasks. These challenges also take a psychological toll on teams… Read More »
Managing a group of employees inevitably means having to manage a wide range of different temperaments, personalities, and character types. Every office, for example, has its share of introverts and extroverts. As managers, we must recognize that neither personality type is necessarily better nor worse than the other. Regardless of whether an employee happens to… Read More »
The recruitment team at every company works hard and spends lots of money to identify and bring aboard the right person to fill an open role. That being said, every now and then a new employee is hired who turns out to be a liability for their team, their department, and the company as a… Read More »