How Much is Consistent Turnover Costing Your Staff?
Good employees can be hard to find these days, so it’s important hold onto the ones you already have. This is also true because employee turnover can impact more than you may realize. When employees leave, it also has a big influence on the remaining staff—and the more people they see exiting, the worse it […]
Is your company culture featured in your employer brand? It should be!
Have you taken the time to build an attractive company culture? If you can answer yes, and you have a clear understanding of what your culture is all about—it’s time to tell the world! By showcasing your culture and what it’s like to work for you, it will be easier to attract candidates whose values […]
Respect at Work: Are you earning it or losing it?
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” –Confucius “Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” –Eldridge Cleaver You can’t gain respect by reading quotes like these. You can’t buy your team’s respect. You can’t have it handed to you on a silver platter from an outgoing leader. […]
Wood Personnel’s “Best of 2015”: 6 posts you need to read
Hard to believe another year is nearly “in the books!” Looking back, 2014 has been a year of amazing challenges and opportunities. Along the way, Wood Personnel has regularly updated our blog to help you make the most of our current economic and employment market conditions. Our goal? To make finding great people, and running […]
Do Workaholics Really Make Good Employees?
Everyone admires “go-getters” who do whatever it takes to get the job done. In small- to medium-sized business, especially, hard-working employees who regularly log 50+ hours per week can be indispensable assets. But are workaholics really great employees, or can they actually be detrimental to your business? It depends. When an employee “burns the midnight […]
Firing the Right Way: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do to Protect Your Middle Tennessee Company
You’ve tried everything: verbal and written warnings, training, performance incentives, counseling…and nothing has worked. You feel bad, but your only recourse is to terminate an employee. Sound familiar? While you may not relish the idea of firing an employee, it’s part of the job and is sometimes necessary to ensure the continued success of your […]