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Many Brits fear taking time off work, meaning we are turning up to work ill, the Office for National Statistics has said. In 2017, the average employee took 4.1 days off due to sickness, with members of the public sector said to lose 3.3% of their working hours because of ill health.
Have you heard of how powerful online adverts on Amazon, Shopify and Facebook can be? Have you heard of folks saying how their businesses made thousands of dollars in profit from using these tools? Have you tried using these tools but can’t seem to get the same level of results these folks claim to be getting or are you considering trying them out but don’t know how to get started?
There is surely someone right at this moment who fits into one or more of the categories described above. Let’s start by stating very clearly that these tools are indeed very powerful and can help grow your business. You can find some information here. This does not mean that all the claims you read of are true. They are possible, but they are not all true because some folks make their money from supposedly teaching techniques for using these tools, so they concoct tales to help sell their trainings. These tales are possible but not always true.
This then brings us to our main issue of focus in this article. Since we have established that these tools are indeed powerful and can yield the level of results constantly advertised, how does one go about finding the right way to go about it?
This is what we will be focusing fully on in this article. Just stay with us.
Did you know that in the United States, a worker is injured on the job once every seven seconds? That adds up to 12,300 injuries each day, or a staggering 4,500,000 every year.
As a small business owner, you owe your employees a safe working environment. Not only will maintaining a safe workplace lower the odds that you will have to pay out workers compensation claims, but it’s just the right thing to do.
Finding the right candidate to fill a vacant position is more complicated than you think. After all, a new hire can be a big investment for your company. It will require training, time, and money to see if they are truly a good fit for your organisation. You want to ensure that all these resources you’ll be consuming will be for a suitable applicant and not someone who’ll be a complete waste of effort.
Pre-employment screening can help your business make more well-informed hiring decisions. Through DBS checks and reference verifications, you can mitigate risks better in your recruitment process.
As your business gets more established, there will come a time that you need to think about recruiting more team members to help your business work more efficiently. As an employer, you have financial, legal and moral obligations that you need to fulfill. When it comes to your finances, it is key to use services like enhanced check to make the entire process more efficient.
Hiring new employees is complex; you have a host of legal, cultural and financial hoops to jump through, and by failing to understand the intricacies of hiring a new employee, it can cost your business in the long-term. Recruiting the wrong employee can have number of consequences.
The culture of any company can be seen by the way in which its employees are dressed. It is the responsibility of Human Resources department to ensure that the policy on office dress code is put in place such that it adheres to the core values of the company, while at the same time giving freedom and flexibility to employees to dress as they se fit. Over the years the office dress codes have changed significantly based on the current cultural trends of the time. Looks the Infographic below to see how employees have dressed over the years from 1950s to 2000s.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), stress has become a worldwide epidemic. While everyone deals with stress on a daily basis, business owners tend to have the most to worry about. Worries about making money and keeping employees in line can make the life of a small business owner extremely stressful.
Rather than “just dealing” with this stress, your main concern should be finding strategies for combating this harmful state of mind. Read below to find out about some of the most effective strategies for managing high levels of stress.
For a long time, centuries in fact, management was just done “off the cuff”. In other words, there were no models or theories, and each person had their own style. It would be fair to say that the situation has turned on its head somewhat. Partly, this is due to the emergence of education in business, and one only has to cast their eye over the Santa Clara University MBA program to see this in full detail.
However, there’s no doubt that theories have helped to change the culture of management. For the purposes of today we are going to hone in on two that were devised by social psychologist Douglas McGregor. Going by the name of Theory X and Theory Y, let’s take a look at how they are adopted in the workplace.
Online training is convenient for businesses of all types, especially those with remote workers. It’s nice to be able to post a training document online and have employees read through it and acknowledge that they’ve completed the task. However, the convenience of online training does have its drawbacks. There’s always the risk that an employee may acknowledge that they’ve read the training without actually doing so. You also risk questions about the training material that go unasked and unanswered.
So how can you minimize these risks without taking away the convenience of online training? The answer is screen sharing. Keep reading to learn how you can use screen sharing as a way to train your workforce both near and far.
Marketing is one of the reasons that some of your favorite brands exist. It is a tool used in every business that enables a product, service, or brand to be noticed by their target audience. However, if you look deeper, you will see that successful marketing isn’t the work of a single person; instead, it’s usually the result of the joint efforts of a whole team. You may be the head of a marketing department, or perhaps you own your business and are looking for ways to build an effective marketing team, which applies to you, you’re going to find out how you can do so below.
