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Guide to Building an Agile Workforce for Improved Performance
From new technologies to unexpected events like the COVID-19 pandemic, things are always changing in the modern workplace. Now, the question is, how can your company deal with all these changes in a smart way? Well, it's actually pretty simple:...
A Complete Guide to Developing an Internship Program as a Small Business
These days, finding and keeping great employees is one of the biggest challenges for business owners. Whether you do it yourself or hire staffing agencies or recruiters to help, hiring can cost your business a lot of time and money....
How to Create a Seamless Pipeline of Talent Through Internship Programs
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the April Jobs Report stated that 266,000 jobs were added with little to no change in the unemployment rate of 6.1%. Employers across the country are screaming for employees. Growing your own employees...
How to Scale Your Business
Growing your business is a linear process. Sales increase and you hire more employees. The revenue increase as expenditures increase. Scaling is when the revenues increase without a substantial increase in resources. Email marketing is one example. You expend the...
How to Manage Remote Work
Managing remote workers can be challenging. Managing new employees cause further challenges since they didn’t have the opportunity to build relationships with colleagues or learn company processes or culture. However, here are some tips on managing remote working. Establish daily...
How to Build an Effective Remote Working (RW) Plan
Conduct a needs assessment to determine if the activities and work tasks are conducive to RW. If the answer is yes, determine how much time is needed for RW. Is it full-time or 2-3 days a week? Once you identified...
What Makes Remote Working Beneficial and Successful?
From last week’s blog, we learned that certain activities and occupations are more conducive to working remotely, primarily jobs that require a lot of digital activities. We also learned that productivity on collaborative tasks needs good planning to be successful....
What We Learned from Embracing Remote Working Practices
Remote working (RW) is not a new phenomenon, but the pandemic pushed it through cultural and technological barriers that prevented it from happening in the past. Several studies have since been conducted. Lund S. et al (November 2020) analyzed 2,000 tasks, 800...
How Effective Leaders Manage their Employee Systems
A system is a collection of elements that interact together to form a whole. An employee system includes the processes used to hire, develop, and retain the best talent. Businesses invest in employees to grow and profit. An employee system...
Leadership Skills that Lead to Employee Retention
Leadership can be defined as the art of motivating employees to achieve business goals that lead to growth and profits. Based on research, some leadership skills lead to employee retention better than others. Building a positive culture is a key...