The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise With a Million Paying Customers
This post, “The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise” appeared first on Inc. It was the spring of 2009, before we had even met Mike Silagadze. He was sitting in his apartment, waiting for his roommate and business partner, Mohsen Shahini, to show up. He had some devastating news to share about their startup, Top Hat, […]
Easy Onboarding for New Employees — Six Tips and Tricks
Onboarding: A Shared Challenge Onboarding is the first stage of assimilating and integrating a new employee into an organization, and it’s a challenge for both the new employee and the employer. For the employee, settling into a new job is difficult — just like that first day at school, there is much to learn and potential anxiety […]
Ten Tips to Enhance Employee Productivity
Employee productivity is largely dependent on an organization’s culture and value system. The factors that might affect your employees’ motivation levels in one setting may be very different from those in another. Therefore, it takes a thorough analysis of a company’s internal workings to understand what might influence the productivity of its employees. However, there […]
Employee Performance: Spotting a Poor Performer before It’s Too Late
Employee performance has long been under the spotlight, as many businesses strive to reach the profitability that they require. Given that people are without a doubt the single most important asset that any organization has at its disposal, it is vital that they perform well. Even businesses that have the luxury of providing the best […]
Flexible Work Arrangements: Sometimes It Pays to Be Flexible, and Other Times It Can Cost
As the economy continues to pick itself back up, so does the job market. Companies that used to find themselves with an over-abundance of potential employees are once again forced to compete over qualified applicants. But just because the economy is picking back up doesn’t mean businesses can yet afford to offer sensational salaries or […]
Performance Management — an Overview
Welcome to our new weekly series on performance management. Join us every Friday as we’ll be posting a new topic to help you get the most out of your employees through various performance management strategies and techniques. Organizations that are searching for renewed motivation and employee morale with increased productivity will find the solution with […]
Tips for Performance Management — Guidelines for Developing a Performance Appraisal System
Hello, welcome back to our blog series with tips for performance management. Last time we looked at performance appraisals and this week we will continue exploring the topic by explaining the guidelines for developing a performance appraisal system. Developing a performance appraisal system for your organization should be considered just as important as any other necessary business […]
Tips for Performance Management — How to Give Feedback to Poor Performers
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.– American proverb In today’s blog post in the series on performance management we will be discussing that uncomfortable conversation that arises when an employee’s performance has fallen short of the desired level. Knowing how to give feedback to poor performers is one thing, but being […]
An Overview of Employee Engagement
Hello, today we are starting a new blog series on employee engagement. To get started, our first post in the series will begin by defining employee engagement — exactly what it is and why it is important for your organization. You may have heard the term “employee engagement” floating around; it has become the human […]
Performance Appraisals — an Overview
Hi there, welcome back to our blog on performance management. Last time we discussed an overview of performance management, which briefly touched upon performance appraisals. This week we will delve deeper looking at performance appraisals by detailing exactly what an appraisal is and the keys to creating an effective performance appraisal for your organization. An organization’s […]
