If you read the title of this article, you may be thinking to yourself: how can there be positive results from a team member's departure? If you consider the circumstances and implement the right strategy, there are potential positive results to be gained. Whether that team member was a positive or negative influence, the opportunity of [...]
Someone will ask the question, "How do you tie in marketing in Human Resources?" That's a great question. Grab a cup of coffee and let me sell you why marketing and Human Resources are already together - and why you need to build on it. The first representative of your organization that a person encounters may [...]
With my experience as a business owner, corporate executive, and as a consultant, I have gained a lot of good resources over the years when it comes to interviewing candidates. When I have the opportunity to interview candidates for various positions, including independent contractors as well as employees, I always need to prepare some good interview [...]
Let's talk about sales strategies within your human resources operations. I was recently visiting with a business owner of a successful organization. He was sharing with me that, although he had a very good product, he was dealing with challenges in regards to his sales team. As he put it bluntly, he "just couldn't get the [...]
On Entrepreneur Magazine's website, Kelly Kinnard wrote a solid article about excellent recruiting strategies for today's market. She explained how startups can compete with established companies for the top talent. Entitled "Your Startup Can Compete With Companies Like Facebook for Top Talent. Here's How.", she describes how to attract top-notch talent with an engaging approach. One [...]
As a leader, you get to lead your team. You get to make the final decisions on hiring and firing team members, as well as the management of that team. Your success and your progress is largely based on your decisions in these areas. It's an exciting part of your work. It can also create some [...]
There are a lot of you out there who work in either recruiting or Human Resources. This article will most likely be a review for you all - or at least I hope it is. If not, we need to talk about recruiting. Frankly, this article is targeted at all of you who are leaders in [...]
A Story . . . I was hearing about an instructor who was teaching about the entrepreneur personality needed to be successful. He described an entrepreneur as being what some would call a "Type A" personality: outgoing, talkative, fearless, bold, etc. What he told the class was that they needed to be a "Type A" personality [...]
If you're an executive or a business owner - or both - you really need to read this article about hiring employees. Seriously. The hiring process may be the most missed area of public relations that you and your organization deals with on a daily basis. It's about hiring employees as a public relations opportunity. When [...]
Here's another article about crises in organizations. Here is: Crisis in the Organization: Downsizing. It's a rare situation in an organization's life where it hasn't had to downsize staff. There are a lot of legitimate reasons to be forced to downsize. Lower sales, a disaster, bank requirements, lower demand for the products or services, and seasonal [...]
