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How to Promote Teamwork at Your Workplace
Date Posted: 10/23/2014
What you can do alone, we can do better together. Crusoe, marooned on an island, teamed up with his dog. In professional sports where each player is individually assessed according to his own special skill, intense teamwork is a must for any chance of success. Similarly, at work, it’s a cohesive team striving towards a... Read More
What to Ask a Candidate’s Reference
Date Posted: 10/13/2014
Investigating a candidate’s background is integral to ensure you have made the correct choice. However, checking back with references given by the candidate on past performance history may sometimes be unsatisfactory, and even frustrating, as many past employers hesitate in offering relevant information except tenure dates, salary history and designations. Consequently, such reference check-backs end... Read More
Do You Value Your Staff?
Date Posted: 09/15/2014
How To Make Your Employees Feel Valued “But he was fine with us; what happened?” This reaction from a reference who had recommended a candidate strongly, and was surprised to learn that things were not working out can be frustrating and even puzzling. So what did happen? Was it a mistaken choice altogether? Did the... Read More
What Would Steve Jobs Say?
Date Posted: 09/9/2014
Secrets To Help You Present Just Like Steve Jobs He’s not just the big man behind Apple and Pixar Animation Studios. Steve Jobs was also considered to be one of the greatest corporate keynote speakers of our time. In his excellent book “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front... Read More
Be the Best Boss Ever
Date Posted: 08/18/2014
How to be the Best Boss Bosses are often the primary reason for people either loving or leaving their jobs. Great bosses consistently inspire employees to perform well and remain loyal; provide them with useful feedback and help them to promote their professional reputations. Most importantly: to treat their employees as they themselves would like... Read More