In a down economy organizations sometimes forget that retaining employees is an important issue. When organizations go through the difficult process of downsizing it’s natural to overlook the need to develop retention programs meant to keep the remaining people happy and productive.
Shouldn’t the employees who survived a downsizing be thankful their jobs were saved? [...]
Most workers are too young to remember the days of corporate paid medical insurance and defined benefit retirement that people could have all of their careers and through retirement. Autoworkers are probably going to lose some of theirs soon. Even Wall Street’s exploitive financial wizards are losing jobs and perks. My heart bleeds.
Not that we [...]
One of the more important aspects of being a good leader in any environment, especially a workplace, is that of communication. The ability to communicate with your workers enables you to help them understand the business model as well as keep employees informed on the status of the company and the employee’s department so that [...]
In short, yes you should care about business credit.
Business owners typically fall into one of three categories when it comes to biz credit.
1. They are very familiar with it and have established scores with the 3 national business credit agencies for their company. Their vendor accounts and credit cards report good payment history in their [...]
There is one main energy that can take you out of business extremely fast and that is the energy of competition. I can honestly tell you that when I first started off in business, I spent a lot of time surfing through the Internet reading newsletters of other folks who were out there doing work [...]