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Taking Your Employees on Trust: How to Develop a High-Trust Business Culture

Taking Your Employees on Trust: How to Develop a High-Trust Business Culture

What place does trust have in your business culture? Do you trust your employees with freedom and flexibility in their working environment, or do you Read More

Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Workers’ compensation insurance rates have experienced a steady rate increase over the past few years, as you have probably noticed. If you’re an employer that Read More

[Podcast] How Health Increases Employee Productivity

[Podcast] How Health Increases Employee Productivity

Dean Rosson is founder of Strongpotential.com an Atlanta Based consulting firm specializing in transformation through health and wellness.

You will learn:

Going Beyond Compliance – Prevention Pays!

Going Beyond Compliance – Prevention Pays!

Does your safety program (commonly referred to in California as an Injury, Illness and Prevention Plan or IIPP) lend itself towards compliance with state Read More

Delegating With Trust

Delegating With Trust

An old joke from a standup comedian went something like this:

“I was a paratrooper – not by choice. I was up in a plane, Read More

Do I Have to Meet with YOU? What To Do When You Hate One-to-One Meetings With Your Direct Report

Do I Have to Meet with YOU? What To Do When You Hate One-to-One Meetings With Your Direct Report

Cheryl leads executive development sessions for Vistage.com as a Chair in NE Ohio and also leads 4 local peer advisory boards, comprised of CEO’s and Read More

[Podcast] How the Affordable Care Act Will Impact Your Business

[Podcast] How the Affordable Care Act Will Impact Your Business

Scott M. Stevens is an employee benefits specialist, located in Omaha, NE. He specializes in alternate healthcare funding arrangements including partial self funding and consumer Read More

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #3- Technique

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #3- Technique

So far we have covered the first two ingredients of asking open questions. The third ingredient is the easiest. It is the technique or how Read More

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #2- Manage Your Interference

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #2- Manage Your Interference

In my last blog, I reviewed the first ingredient of asking open questions- showing up with the intention to learn and understand.

The second Read More

Four Steps to Improving Your Employer Brand

Four Steps to Improving Your Employer Brand

You know about personal branding—what makes you unique to the workplace and how to leverage that for the best career opportunities; you also know about Read More

What is Your Role When Two Subordinates are Feuding?

What is Your Role When Two Subordinates are Feuding?

There are conflicts between employees that are not so much problem-oriented as personality-oriented. If you like both subordinates, you may wish they liked each other. Read More

Employee Conflict: A Manager’s Challenge

Employee Conflict: A Manager’s Challenge

It seems as though the world has never been without conflict – it appears to be one of life’s givens. In fact, almost on a Read More

3 Tips to Inspire a Healthy Corporate Culture

3 Tips to Inspire a Healthy Corporate Culture

Culture eats strategy for lunch.

~~ Peter Drucker 

Business leaders reach C-Level status by developing innovative business plans, out maneuvering the competition, and shifting Read More

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Time and time again, I see employers hurting themselves with their human resource policies. Poor policies (or lack of policies) can directly affect their workers Read More

Recipes for Motivating Employees in Family-Owned Business

Recipes for Motivating Employees in Family-Owned Business

In a breakout session at the Vistage Think Big Conference, business leaders from family-owned businesses shared strategies for motivating employees. The biggest challenge for Read More

Addiction in the Workplace

Addiction in the Workplace

Employees are every organization’s most valuable asset. CEOs and other top executives know that keeping their employees healthy, productive and committed to the organization ranks Read More

Outsource or Insource? Beyond Your Core Competency

Outsource or Insource? Beyond Your Core Competency

As the business press is buzzing about companies bringing back call centers and other services to the U.S., businesses should be thoughtful about what services Read More

[Podcast] Employee Engagement

[Podcast] Employee Engagement

Don Rheem is a founding partner of Engagient, and has coached more than 30 US Senators, royalty, and hundreds of CEOs in the private and Read More

Quick Start Guide to Hiring Effective Executives

Quick Start Guide to Hiring Effective Executives

© 2012 Johanna Rothman 

The good news is your company is growing. The bad news is time to bring in more executive management.

Why is Read More

Millennials –The Misunderstood Generation

Millennials –The Misunderstood Generation

All across the country I hear a call of desperation from leaders “millennials are a different breed, how do we lead them?” They aren’t like Read More

One New Year’s Resolution to Get Your Business Fit and Healthy

One New Year’s Resolution to Get Your Business Fit and Healthy

The New Year brings the excitement of a fresh start and new opportunities.  Unfortunately, we tend to get overexcited with the chance for an annual Read More

End-Of-Year Bonuses and the Equal Treatment of Unequals

End-Of-Year Bonuses and the Equal Treatment of Unequals

I have written for many years now that end-of-year bonuses are a waste of money (“OOPs! 13 Management Practices that Waste Time and Money Read More

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Executives are important to your business in a number of ways, and are often the backbone behind huge growth, innovative changes, and the ultimate success Read More

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Corporate culture has been described as “the values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of the organization.” Culture Read More

Developing and Training Behavioral Interviewers

Developing and Training Behavioral Interviewers

In the last post on behavioral interviewing, I discussed how to purposefully create and develop a system of questions when using behavioral interviewing to Read More