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The idea of breaking into a business career on sheer personality and will is appealing. After all, Steve Jobs, of the biggest mavericks the business world has ever seen, never finished college; Mark Zuckerberg dropped out and, even though he got a degree, Elon Musk preaches against it. Here’s the problem: they are notable because they’re the exception to the rule. For most of humanity, learning valuable skills in a college program is the surest way to success. Here are five ways that’s true.
We all know the name of the virus that is the talk of the world as of late, which means that everybody is in full panic mode right now. Relax, friend. Although the unknown is a little scary, that doesn’t mean that everyone needs to fly into a fit of hysteria. If we each do our part to practice good habits, then we can keep the worst of it at bay.
Filing a worker compensation case is a very delicate task. Any wrong or incomplete detail can be disastrous for the filer. Thankfully, a worker’s compensation lawyer can do that for you. But many other mistakes can cause you to pay your medical bills out of your own pocket. So, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Contrary to what you might assume, productivity isn’t a byproduct of just consistent hard work. It is the culmination of hard work, taking time off, exercising, resting and eating well. If any of those things are omitted from the equation, it would adversely impact employee productivity.
An overworked employee is more likely to make mistakes and develop high levels of stress. Moreover, overworking results in resentment towards coworkers and employers, low morale and dip in productivity.
As an employer, it’s your responsibility to encourage employees to take time off, reset and resume work with a fresh mind. In this post, we’re sharing the best ways to urge employees to take breaks.
As a manager it is your job to ensure that everyone in your team is working well and achieving their potential. This means you have to work to improve their teamwork, your style of leadership, and project management. Without a robust strategy in place, disagreements can lead to arguments, rather than smart resolution. Work can stall, become frustrated, and generally hurt your business if it is not improved.
You need to know how to improve your team’s dynamic, which is why you should look into adopting these following strategies ASAP:
Happy employees lead to happy customers, which lead to higher sales through word of mouth. Great employees are essential to the smooth running of your business, so getting the right ones to work for you in the first place, and keeping them is something you need to be thinking about as a business owner. You don’t have to spend fortune to keep your employees happy. It takes small, genuine gestures and other perks to stay loyal to your business. Here are five ways to ensure they stay happy.
Small businesses played a strong role in the contribution to the US economy in 2019. According to the Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration, 99.9 percent of all American businesses are start-ups. These businesses hired 47.3 percent of the country’s entire workforce. For small business owners who want to open up their company to hire employees for the first time, the task of searching for the right person to join the team can get overwhelming.
To build a successful start-up, the first strategy is to learn all the secrets of hiring good staff members. If you own a start-up business and plan to expand your team by hiring your first employees, here are some useful tips for a less complicated hiring process.
For a vast number of post-9/11 generation of veterans, the experience of coming back to civilian life has been markedly different than any previous generation of servicemembers in our country’s history. There are no parades or protests; instead, there is just anonymity.
Though anyone in the community of post-9/11 veterans will tell you that the needs of this generation differ from those who come before. This is not only due to the situation on the home front, where most of the country has forgotten about the “Forever Wars” but also the fact that many veterans are trying to integrate after the experiences of multiple tours.
While many sites provide help and support for veterans dealing with the mental and physical ramifications of their time in the duty; there remains a need to help veterans find employment after their time in the armed forces is over.
If you find yourself recently separated from active duty, then read on as here are nine online tools vets can use to get a job.
If your construction company is doing well and you are turning a steady profit, you may be thinking about how to grow and expand. There are a lot of factors to consider when you are trying to build up your construction business, but the most important thing is hiring the right team. You need to ensure that you have a good team of skilled workers behind you. If you can’t rely on your team to work independently on-site, you will struggle to manage larger projects. The quality of their work also reflects on you, so if they are not very good at their job, it can seriously hurt your reputation. That’s why you need to think carefully before hiring new construction employees. These are some of the most important things that you need to remember.
Professional Employer Organization (PEO) companies can offer many benefits to the new startup or budding small business, not the least of which is an effective and efficient outsourced HR department. This service gives new businesses access to some amazing tools that they’d otherwise have no way to acquire. With better benefits, better payroll, and more, there are plenty of reasons to sign on with a PEO. Here are five benefits of using a PEO company.
