by Kristen Ireland | Mar 11, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
So, where do you spend your time? I ask managers and supervisors this question a lot when discussing employees. Do you spend your time with your high performers or your problem employees? The answer I typically get from managers is that they spent more...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 4, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
I recently read that 94% of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn (statistic from LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report). I am guessing your initial response to that was “yeah, but I don’t have the...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 25, 2019 | Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
How do you retain your best employees? What options do you have beyond just increasing an employee’s pay and crossing your fingers they don’t leave, taking a chunk of your customers with them? We understand that the lifeblood of small businesses are the relationships...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 18, 2019 | Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
It is awesome that so many businesses are interested in getting feedback from their employees – whether it is about the company, company strategy, work environment, or suggestions and ideas for improvement. However, what I see happen is that leaders...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 11, 2019 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
As the struggle for recruiting and retaining employees gets more intense, many organizations, especially large ones, are offering employee perks. In a previous post we highlighted focusing on differentiating yourself as a small business and leveraging the things that...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 5, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
As the struggle to recruit and retain employees intensifies, many organizations, especially large ones, are offering employee perks. Small businesses than start to question how they will compete for employees with companies that are offering concierge services,...
