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October is National Work & Family Month

October is National Work & Family Month

Did you know that October is National Work & Family Month? The majority of employees spend more waking hours at work than they do with their family & friends. Established in 2003, National Work & Family Month focuses on the challenges working families face every day to maintain work-life balance. Here are some ways you can promote work-life balance within your business or organization: Establish boundaries & encourage your employees to unplug. Minimize the amount of busine

Importance of Pre-Employment Screening and Background Checks

Importance of Pre-Employment Screening and Background Checks

This week’s email addresses pre-employment screening and background checks. There are a lot of stats out there about the importance of verifying applicant information and performing background checks, and here are just a few: 33% - 55% of candidates provide false or misleading information on their resumes 39% of all background checks include “red flags” or “issues” 10% of county criminal record checks include flags 9% - 16% of education verifications include flags 23% - 33%

Why Supervisor Awareness Training Cannot be Avoided

Why Supervisor Awareness Training Cannot be Avoided

The truth is that your front-line supervisors will likely know about potential Human Resources and labor relations issues long before upper management - issues like favoritism, workplace safety, workplace harassment, discrimination, and bullying. If those same front-line supervisors are not trained to recognize these and other issues, you are exposing your company to an uneducated and potentially mishandled response, or perhaps even no response whatsoever. Such workplace is

Summer Sales Slump?

Summer Sales Slump?

With there being only thirteen (13) more days of summer, it will soon be time to start evaluating your company’s profitability during this historically slow season. Recognizing if your company has fallen prey to a slow summer cycle is the first step to potentially overcoming it. Clearly it’s an oversimplification to state that there are only two categories, but you might evaluate your company to determine which of these categories BEST describes the nature of yours: Your bu

Run. Hide. Fight.

Run. Hide. Fight.

This week’s blog is one that might be shared not only with members of your workforce, but with your business and personal associates as well. This video (see link below) was published to YouTube back in July of 2012, so you may have seen it before. It is short (only 6 minutes), and provides a recommended response plan should you find yourself in an active shooter event. In my opinion, it’s well done. Click here to view the video. The exposure is not limited to your own wor

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