How You Can Motivate Your Employees

How to Motivate Your Employees on a Shoestring Budget

One of the most valuables skills for leaders and managers is to engage their employees. Your workforce will be characterized by growth and outstanding performance when you hire the right team of employees and manage them well. Similarly, failure to motivate your employees can cause a high turnover and place your business in chaos and […]

HRIS and LMS: A Match Made in Heaven

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Whether its the first time you’re switching to eLearning for your organizational training purposes, or simply deploying training for the first time, a learning management system (LMS) is a must. That’s why 40% of Fortune 500 companies have already employed an LMS to keep their training infrastructure competitive. By next year, a staggering 98% of […]

Creating Competitive Vacation Policies

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How Small Businesses Can Craft Competitive Vacation Policies Summer is here, and that means many employees are taking time off of work to go on vacation. According to a recent survey, 95% of small businesses provide at least five vacation days, and nearly one-quarter offer 11 to 15 days of paid time off (PTO). Providing […]

Building an Effective Team: Seven Steps to Move Out of Chaos

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I recently began coaching an up-and-coming manager we will call Nathan. The organization sees great potential in this manager, and they have put him in charge of a department that has been underperforming despite having talented people in place. During our first meeting, Nathan went over his goals with me, and they were ambitious. Too […]

Human Resource Nightmares – What to Look Out For

Human Resource Nightmares

Gone are the days of the human resources department being a big, bad, scary thing. These days, HR really is about supporting employees, the company, and the overall mission, vision, and values of where the business is headed. But sometimes, that support comes at a price. The job of a human resources professional is harder […]

Eight Creative Ways to Save Money for a Sabbatical

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You can live the life of your dreams with clever planning methods. Most people think about going on sabbatical to explore the other side of their fantasies in life; but quite very wrongly, the majority of people think they do not have the financial power to foot the bills; how very wrong they were! You […]

Workplace Collaboration and Customer-Focused Culture

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For a customer-focused culture, make collaboration unavoidable We all want an organization that’s agile and has an established customer-focused culture. A workplace where all employees feel supported with a laser focus on improving the customer experience. Certainly, “it all starts at the top” so we should focus on investments in leadership development. Yet top heavy […]

HRchat Interview with Chris Bjorling: Crafting Talent Management Solutions and FuelHR Conference

Talent Management

In this episode of the HRchat show, we hear from Christopher Bjorling, President at Fidello, Inc. For 30+ years Chris has led Fidello in creating unique talent management solutions. Through the products and services he and his team have created over the years, his organization has helped clients design, develop, and implement strategic, integrated talent […]