Make your end-of-year deadlines without skipping a beat, even with the holidays, by keeping your team engaged. Avoiding holiday distractions is nearly impossible. This is why if you want to keep your team focused through the holidays, you shouldn’t avoid distractions at all. Rather, your emphasis should be on embracing these distractions that come with… Read More »
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Terminate or Reassign? What to do With a Bad Hire
Not all hires can be the best fit. However, the cost of a new hire can truly debilitate a workforce. So what do you do when an employee isn’t working out? Do you just take the loss and start the process all over again, or can you turn them around? Terminating a new employee may… Read More »
How to Show Your Gratitude to Your Employees
Showing your employees gratitude is an often overlooked part of being a manager. Some managers assume that their employees know that they are appreciated, while others don’t see a need to show employee appreciation whatsoever. Both scenarios can lead to severe turnover rates through low staff job satisfaction. Raise office morale by appreciating your employees… Read More »
Increase the Flow of Your Warehouse with These Expert Tips
Managing a warehouse is all about the bottom line. There are obvious logistical ways to maximize a warehouse from a quantitative perspective, however, there are just as important qualitative ways in which managers can optimize the flow of a warehouse that often get overlooked. Maximize warehouse workflow by taking these steps to improve the quality… Read More »
Avoid Hiring a Bad Candidate Because They Are a Good Interviewer
Avoiding a bad hire is a solution that managers have been trying to find since the beginning of industry. When a candidate says all of the right things during an interview, identifying bad employees can be nearly impossible. It may require restructuring your company’s application process entirely. However, the cost of a bad hire far… Read More »
5 Tired Myths About Millennials to Make You Say ‘I Can’t Even!’
Millennials are the generation to talk about in 2016. Surely, you have seen articles that defend millennials and articles that rip them apart. In either case, many of these articles are asserting major assumptions. When discussing a group of people who currently range from nonworking 14 year old kids to mid-career 30-somethings, generalizations are far… Read More »
Freshen Up Your Recruitment Strategy in Four Steps
Having a modern recruitment strategy vs. a traditional recruiting process is often the difference between hiring decent reliable employees and hiring rockstars who are going to propel your company further. There is a new wave of talented professionals who have a different standard for what they look for in an employer. If you want to… Read More »
Our 8 Step Plan to Get Prepared For New Overtime Laws
The Department of Labor has made amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act that will take effect December 1st of this year. The amendment increases the minimum threshold salary to receive overtime pay of full-time salaried employees from $23,660 to $47,476. This was a necessary shift to adjust for inflation as only seven percent of… Read More »
Why Should I Look for “Soft Skills” in My Next Manufacturing Hire?
Technical skills have always been the focus when hiring manufacturing clients. Interpret that as you will, but the fact is – manufacturing is dangerous, intricate work and unskilled hands are hazards. Innovations in manufacturing are likewise made by keen, observatory brains and an ability to enlist technical and physical awareness as an ally to equations,… Read More »
Navigating the Grey Area of Employee Absences
Employee absence is usually pretty black and white. You show up or you use one of your vacation or sick days. It’s that simple right? Not quite. Let’s say one of your employees has a disability and said disability requires frequent visits to the doctor’s office, as well as an above average time away from… Read More »