January - 2017

Advice for Managers: Be Clear About What You Want

Advice for Managers: Be Clear About What You Want

Being in Human Resources, we do a fair amount of placement. One of the standard questions we pose during a first interview is, “Can you describe your dream manager?” Here, we’re looking for the management style that brings out the best in the prospective employee, in an effort to determine if we have a match. By far, the most common response we hear describes not what qualities the candidate wants in a manager, but what he/she doesn’t want: “I don’t want to work for a micr

Actively Helping Our Next Generation

Actively Helping Our Next Generation

At 12 noon today, the 45th President of the United States of America was inaugurated. Regardless of what your thoughts are on the subject, we might all agree that as we look toward the future, our attention can’t help but be drawn to the next generation and what we can to do help clear their path. As business executives and owners, we are in a unique position to take action that helps the next generation as they prepare to enter the workforce. There has been a highly public

Resolve to Play Music In Your Office

Resolve to Play Music In Your Office

Today marks the end of the second week of January. Statistically speaking, about 70% of us are still going strong with our New Year’s resolution. Within another two weeks, that will drop to 60% - but still more than half of us are proactively working toward self-improvement. Here’s the question: are half of us proactively working toward improving our business? Asked a different way: how many of us have established a New Year’s resolution for our business? If you have no

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