“You’re Doing That Wrong”: Tips for Providing Constructive Employee Feedback

Employee feedback that: is rooted in frustration or anger? only criticizes behavior, without sharing constructive advice for improvement? is shared publicly? Yikes – that’s a recipe for disaster. When employees feel personally attacked, are humiliated or receive no clear direction for improving their performance, they’re not likely to take advice to heart. They’ll just wind […]

Pivoting Your Middle TN Business: Why and How to Shift Your Strategy

The rate of change in business is accelerating – dramatically. New opportunities are everywhere, and technology is driving innovation in virtually every industry. What does that mean for your Middle Tennessee business? It’s pretty clear: Evolve, or lose business to your competition. Sometimes, a simple tweak is all your organization needs to stay at the […]

Managing Temporary Employees? Here’s how to get more out of them

Life is what you make of it. And, in many ways, so is temporary staffing! As a manager, there’s a ton you can do to improve the performance and retention of your temporary employees. Manage them correctly and you can: get higher discretionary effort from them; obtain their insights and new ideas; get them to […]