Training Employees? Get More Bang for Your Buck with These Ideas
If you have responsibility for employee training, you know that the benefits extend well beyond improving employees’ job skills. Training your employees also: makes workers more versatile, especially if you offer cross-training; makes employees’ jobs more interesting and diverse; fulfills your staff’s need for continual development, which is essential for retaining high performers; enhances employee […]
Recruiting Pain? Here’s Why It Hurts – and What to Do About It
“UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IMPROVE ACROSS ALL COUNTIES“ This headline, published by the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development (TDLWD), is great news for Middle Tennessee’s economy. But if you’re trying to recruit great people? Not so much. The latest data from the TDLWD paints a stark picture of our state’s employment landscape: just 2 of […]
Are You Patting Employees on the Back – or Metaphorically Slapping Them in the Face?
How well do you take care of your company’s most vital asset? Regardless of how profitable your business is, or how in-demand your products or services are, people will always be your most valuable resource. Take great care of them, and they’ll reward you with productivity, loyalty and passion for their work. But if you […]
Checking the Pulse of Middle Tennessee’s Employment and Economic Outlook
Wow – time sure does fly! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since we last got a pulse on how the Nashville metro area is doing from an employment and economic perspective. A lot can change in a year’s time, so let’s take a look at the most recent data from the […]
Who Needs Sleep? (Here’s what science says…)
Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention. A method of torture – and yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a third of American adults don’t regularly get enough sleep. In other words, we’re walking around torturing ourselves. How can we expect ourselves to […]
To Pay or Not to Pay? On Call vs. Just-in-Time Employees
Business is unpredictable. If your Middle Tennessee company is like most, it has its ups and downs. You might need “all hands on deck” at a moment’s notice, or just as suddenly find those same hands sitting idle. Just-in-time staff from Wood Personnel can help even out those highs and lows in your business, but […]
