This is a guest post by Amy Beth Miller, business writer. When an employee breaks a rule or fails to follow your direction, you take what you think is the right action by disciplining or dismissing the person. You’d like to think that will be the end of your problems with the employee, but it

During the hiring process, it often feels like you need to have the position filled by yesterday. Don’t wait until your team has an opening to start thinking about whom to recruit. Being reactive will leave you scrambling to fill the position and probably won’t result in the strongest new hires. Develop relationships early on

This is a guest post by Jon Strother, Senior Copywriter/Editor and Social Media Manager at Global Compliance. You’ve probably heard the stories. There’s the one about the employee who was terminated for criticizing her employer on Facebook … and then sued the organization for wrongful termination.  And of course there’s the one about the congressional

I’ve been thinking about work/life balance a lot lately, so when I ran across that quote from American opera singer Jessye Norman, I knew I wanted to share it with you: Finding balance can be difficult for anyone, but it’s harder when you’re responsible for many people. If you manage a team of five, you

The less time your team spends in meetings, the more productive and happy everyone will be. Remember these guidelines for when to excuse yourself or someone else from a meeting: Do: Scratch routine meetings. Hold meetings only when you have a reason to do so, not by default. If the only reason you have for

You might expect that job hunters would jump at any opportunity for employment these days, but that’s not the case. And sometimes the factors that matter most are surprising. Take this recent study from the worldwide recruitment firm Hays, called “Tomorrow’s Workforce.” Hays surveyed more than 870 Australian employers and job candidates, but I suspect that the

I wrote The Dangers of Being an Arrogant Boss and a reader emailed me with an interesting comment. She said that she thought the advice was useful, but that it didn’t touch on the opposite—and just as important—issue of arrogant employees. “The fault can’t always be the boss’s,” she wrote. That’s a valid point: One

The first dog my wife and I got from the shelter was a big, happy blonde Labrador mix.  We took the time and effort to train him, and went through about fifty bags of dog biscuits in teaching him to sit, stay, lie down, and fetch.  It took time, but he was a great dog