Are you coasting by or taking necessary steps to develop your career?
Are you getting comfortable in your career? It’s great to love what you do, but it’s also important to work towards goals. That way, you’ll always be satisfied and never feel as if you’re stagnating. Learning new things is one of the keys to happiness—and when you consistently set and achieve goals, it will help […]
Retaliation Claims: 4 Ways to Reduce Your Risks
You just had to reprimand or terminate an employee. They’re MAD – and threatening to sue, because they claim your actions were in retaliation for their complaints about being harassed or discriminated against at work. Are you breaking into a cold sweat – or keeping your cool? Retaliation claims are the leading type of allegations […]
Seasonal Staffing: Source, Engage and Retain the Best!
If you’ve visited a big-box retailer in the last week or so, you probably noticed something a bit disconcerting: Holiday decorations are already on sale! Throughout Middle Tennessee, stores are already prepping for the rush that’s still several weeks away. And if your company is approaching its busy season, you should take a similar approach […]
Dreading Your Busy Season? Here’s how to keep your sanity.
Seasonal surges are exciting for company leaders, especially when that surge in activity means additional revenue. But if you have any direct responsibility for staffing or employee management, you know that a big uptick also means exhausted workers. Unpredictable personnel budgets. And the very real possibility that this time around, you may not have the […]
Prevent Turnover with Stay Interviews
Everybody’s heard of screening interviews, behavioral interviews and exit interviews. But “stay interviews”? They’re not as well known and not as widely used – but perhaps they should be. In our current economy, jobless claims are down. Businesses are hiring. And great people are getting harder to find. To compete in these conditions, you […]
Smart Staffing in Middle TN: 6 Ways to Manage Changing Workloads
Do you cringe as your busy season nears? Do your business cycles contribute to stress, burnout or layoffs? We get it. There’s a ton of time and expense involved in posting jobs, and then recruiting, screening, interviewing, hiring, onboarding and training employees, all for a few weeks or months of work. That’s where Wood […]
