employees
Build your group into a true team
It’s easy to extol teamwork, but not every group is a team. In fact, most teams aren’t, because many managers focus on building the most effective individual relationships and pay little attention to collective performance. Collective work and mutual commitment are the key characteristics to a good team and sharing a genuine conviction that “we”—the potent concept behind every team—will succeed or fail together, and that no individual can succeed while the team fails. Full article.
The right way to found a start-up
Running and growing a company is the hard part of being in business. There are a few critical practices things that successful businesses utilize to help them both run and grow their companies, such as part-time commitment almost guarantees failure, having different backgrounds is incredibly useful while approaching business problems, strategic decisions, product design complexities, etc. and the importance of having people who are totally committed to success. Full article.
Plug into Millennials' tech needs
The millennial generation grew up in an instantaneous world, and now they are bringing those same expectations into their workplaces—especially in the areas of technology and tech support. Businesses who want to both recruit and retain talented people must adapt to this generation’s technological needs. Full article.
How to Make a Great Business Great
The only way to survive and thrive is to build a great business that can withstand the economic shocks of any market. It's now more important than ever to develop sustainable strategies for attracting good customers and recruiting better leaders to serve them. Full article.
Manage conflict with an employee
Business owners frequently have to deal with employee conflicts. There are several things owners and managers can do to help them manage workplace conflicts, including listening to the employee’s perspective and acknowledging roles in issue under discussion. Full article.
Business dress upgrades
According to business consultants, the downturned economy has businesses cutting back, and doing more with less. That means employees have to avoid sloppy dress that could indicate a sloppy attitude. Full article.
Avoid assumptions that undermine customer service
Great service assures you keep customers and allows you to charge a premium for your product. However, when trying to achieve consistently good service, most business owners make several mistakes, including making the assumption that front-line employees are the cause of most bad service and assuming that everyone wants warm, fuzzy personal service. Full article.
Upgrade to the human operating system
The governance operating system worked perfectly fine for decades, until leaders began calling on employees for other things besides productivity, such as asking them to take on much greater workloads as teams shrink. Leaders need to inspire the game-changing behaviors we're asking our employees to produce and operationalize values so that we can scale our businesses sustainably through a human operating system. In a human operating system, workers see themselves as helping by working with colleagues. Full article.
Get employees on the Social Media bandwagon
A recent online survey found that when companies look to ramp up social media initiatives, many turn in-house first, especially for small businesses with limited resources. For those companies currently looking to build out or maintain their social media presence, employee buy-in is vital to ensure success, and there are several ways companies can entice employees to embrace the benefits of social media. Full article.
Secrets of charismatic leadership
Displaying charismatic leadership is one of the most effective ways to boost everything from motivation and creativity to productivity and plain old satisfaction. The bad news is that not all work groups are composed of take-charge kinds of people. If you need to light a fire under a more reserved group, a little charisma in your messaging can go a long way. Full article.
