by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 28, 2014 | Business Improvement, Business Management, Employee Management
Last year I was chatting with a business friend who manages a small office. They deal with sensitive information on a daily basis so there is a policy that all paper trash is shredded at the end of the day. All they have to do is dump their paper trash into a hopper...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Employee retention is important on several levels and 7o% of the US labor force is looking for a new job according to a recent Jobvite Job Seeker Nation Study. Jobvite, based out of California found that specifically that: 35% of workers change jobs at least every...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Apr 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Having a long string of bad days? Has the winter really gotten you down? Want an easy way to make it a little better? Practice kindness on other people. Seriously. When you make someone else’s day, you make your own that much better. If you don’t believe me, try it. I...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 21, 2014 | Benchmarking, Business Culture
Last year, JPMorgan Chase paid $15,600,000,000 (that is billion) to settle two different charges on ethics that were part of the cause of the 2008 financial meltdown and their complacent knowledge of the Bernard Madoff scandal. Both of these were ethical lapses and...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 14, 2014 | Business Improvement, Business Management, Employee Management
Recently we celebrated “Equal Pay Day” which means if you do equal work, the pay should be equal. This isn’t socialism, it is common sense. If you are running an ice cream store and all the employees are new this year and you decide to pay those with blue eyes more...