11 Methods For Dealing With Problem Employees
When you need to deal with a problem employee, be prepared to reference the original description for that position or project, and frame the talk around actions. ‘You need to stop doing this, and start doing this,’ is easier to communicate than blame or lectures. ‘You’re screwing this up’ or ‘Why can’t you…
10 Ways To Offer Your Sales Team Awesome Incentives
Who doesn’t love to work towards an incentive? It helps keep up motivation, determination, and a little competition can always be healthy. Offering exciting employee incentives is a great way to keep your team doing its best, and the better the incentives, well, the more willing they’ll be to work towards…
12 Tips For Getting More Word-of-Mouth Referrals
“Whether it’s cute tote bags, a mug, or cards printed with DIY facial recipes you can make with ingredients found in your kitchen (which is what I do!), give something away. It keeps you top of mind your contacts, and they will be more likely to keep you in mind and recommend you to others.” “We capitalize…
9 Ways Startup Founders Would Energize The US Economy
It’s amazing to think that 45 cents of every dollar spent on a local business gets reinvested into the local economy. I’d love to see the U.S. government take the time it is given on television stations to highlight local businesses powered by local entrepreneurs. Spread the positives going on by leveraging…
12 Ideas To Improve Employee Engagement
Just like you measure website metrics and revenues, you can measure employee engagement. Create a survey with a few questions that can be easily scored on a scale of 1 to 5, and commit to regularly – consider quarterly – sending it around for completion. You should include an open field on the survey where…