Posts Tagged: Breaking the Attrition Cycle on Your Sales Team

Leaders: This Is The Secret To Preserving Top Talent

Securing and keeping top talent is essential to a company’s success. However, it is also extremely difficult to do. Employers need to try and preserve their best employees and these elite people must be strategic in order to stand out as top talent.   A Leader’s Requirement   If you’re in leadership, then you have… Read More »

Reasons Why Employing A ‘Culture Add’ Benefits Your Business

Employers spend part of their hiring resources on personality assessments in hopes of finding the right fit for their company’s culture.   While this is important to do, it should not be the only thing you look at with your potential candidate. When an employee doesn’t stay long in a position, often an employer wonders whether… Read More »

The Future Workplace Experience: Is Your HR Department Ready?

The business world is more focused on the need to innovate today. Try to be more innovative with your company’s culture, leadership style, technology goals, strategy, etc… One thing that often doesn’t get as much traction is Human Resources. The future workplace experience is changing. How does your HR department measure up? Are you ready?… Read More »

Why Top Salespeople Leave, Stay Or Join A Company

At some point, every company struggles with how to secure top talent and get them to stay for the long haul. There are some common reasons for why the best salespeople leave, stay, and join a company. Consider the following and perhaps change your strategy in order to attract and hold on to the best… Read More »

Learning to deal with difficult people

THE BOTTOM LINE: Difficult people can make your work day less enjoyable. With the right strategies, you can learn to deal with them effectively.   If you have to work with difficult people every day, you probably dread going to work each morning. What’s more, you might get so stressed that you can’t concentrate on… Read More »

How Managers Should Engage New Hires

The first 90 days for employees are crucial to their future success within the company. While they are nervous and a little green, management needs to swoop in to ensure their first impression is a positive one. Managers should attempt to alleviate fears and make the new employee feel comfortable in their new position. If… Read More »

Ten Ways To Welcome Your New Recruits

A brand new hire joining your team is quite the accomplishment. After countless hours of recruiting, you’ve made it to their start date. It’s time to roll out the red carpet a bit and make them feel welcome. Don’t miss this important aspect of training your new hire because you want them to stick around… Read More »

Managing Through Goal Setting

Unless you know what you want to achieve, there’s no way to measure how close you are to achieving that objective. Goals give you a standard against which to measure your progress. The goals you set for accomplishing the company’s/department’s mission must be in line with the vision and what your company wants you to… Read More »

How To Bridge The Soft Skills Gap

As more and more young people come into the marketplace, the larger the soft skills gap becomes. There is no way to avoid hiring individuals that lack these skills. Instead of limiting your hiring radius, build soft skill training into the culture of your business.   Determine What Soft Skills Are Most Important: There are… Read More »

Employees Just Want To Have Fun!

An extensive, company-sponsored recreation and social program can be a boost to moral – but it can also be a fiscal and managerial nightmare to the CEO who has to administer it. Jack Stack, CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing Center Corp., in Springfield, MO., was so intent on fostering healthy relations with his 450 employees that… Read More »