As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure, as far as possible, that your employees have a safe and healthy environment in which to work. Whether all of your employees are on-site, you have remote workers, or you offer your services at client sites, you need to offer the necessary tools and information so […]
Three Ways to Keep Employees Safe in the Workplace
As a business owner, you should know that the safety of your employees is vital to the success of your company. Instead of looking at employee safety as an expense, you should instead think of it as a long-term investment in the health of your business. Since businesses are run by human beings and not […]
Top 40 Questions to Ask Your Product Design Company
Developing great products is an art in itself and one that requires experience and expertise in design aesthetics and technicalities of high-quality well-designed products that will fly off the shelves. Outsourcing your product development and branding needs to a seasoned product design company is a great idea, but you need to ask some important questions […]
Business and Data Recovery Strategies
There are times when a digital storage device fails. When this happens, and it is not the result of a breach of any kind, it is not a problem with sufficient backups on site. However, this is not always the case. Backing up files is not always a regularly scheduled activity for small businesses. With […]
5 Tips to Conduct an Awesome Seminar
There are many things to keep in mind if you are hosting a presentation or seminar These include what you are going to say, how to attract an audience, what will serve as your event space… It can become very stressful very quickly! Business Presentation Tips To keep you from being overwhelmed by the task at […]
Remote Working: Ways to Build Effective Telecommuting Strategies
5 Steps to Creating an Effective Telecommuting Policy Telecommuting has become popular due to its high degree of flexibility, efficiency, and comfort. Deciding to allow your workers to work from home, however, is easier than actually putting that process into place. Systems should be set in place to track your employee’s work progress in order […]
Five Energy Boosting Foods to Try at the Office
Staying energized through your busy work day is a challenge so many of us face. Who hasn’t experienced the 3 pm slump where you’re tired, unfocused and find yourself reaching for the coffee pot (or worse the cookie jar)? Keeping your energy levels up at work is not only important for productivity, it also means […]
What’s the Deal with Employee Experience and Internal Communications?
Millennials are making their mark in the workforce, and, along with their enthusiasm and expertise, they are bringing a new set of challenges for employers. These changing demands of the workforce have given rise to the relatively new concept of ‘employee experience’. This is all about investing time, money, and resources to strengthen employee relationships and […]
The Lasting Impact of Onboarding
No one plants a seed expecting a tree to grow overnight. Trees need water, sun, soil and time to grow. Yet some companies expect new employees to grow without giving them the time or resources they need. More than a third of companies do not have a structured onboarding process. Without realizing it, these […]
Listening for Sexual Harassment
“Oh my goodness! He’s so nasty, what a pervert, I was so creeped out,…” was just some of the water cooler commentary I would hear about one supervisor I worked with many years ago. I was mildly curious about what he had done or said to garner such consternation from our female employees but mostly […]