Employees and HR continued
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Congratulations! You've hired the perfect Cleaning Company employee. Now what? We all know there's a lot more to welcoming a new employee than just opening the door and leading them to the job. But do you have a plan to ensure a long lasting successful work relationship? Here are some ideas to help you retain those employees you worked so hard to hire:...
Your employees are an important part of your cleaning business. Hiring, training, retention and reward are just a few factors that will help you be a better employer. The ten tips presented in this article are small reminders of how to keep a positive relationship with your employees....
It's an employee's job market. In most areas, there are more jobs than there are qualified employees. This makes the issue of employee turnover more difficult for employers. Yet, despite our possible disappointment and discouragement as employees leave our businesses, we must pay close attention to the messages we give to exiting employees....
Do you have meeting avoidance syndrome? Are you hesitant to schedule a meeting or attend a meeting because more often than not the meetings take more time rather than offer valuable information? If you can relate to these sentiments, you're not alone. If you succumb to these sentiments, you're also not alone....
When interviewing potential employees, do you often forget which questions you're NOT allowed to ask? This article will help you protect yourself from potential discrimination problems....
As employers we tend to think that our opinion of the applicant is the only thing that's important. But if we want to attract top candidates we need to think about the image we portray to applicants d...
Ten Ways to Interview Right The First Time and Every TimeInterviewing always looks easier than it is - if you're doing it the right way. Too frequently we, as interviewers, arrive at the interview unprepared. With skimmed resume in hand, we have a picture in our mind of who we want to hire. But have we really refined that picture, clarified and detailed who really fits the job and the organization?...
EMPLOYEE MAGNETISM: How to Retain Your PeopleIt's not enough to attract and bring the right employees into your organization. That would be too simple. Now that you've attracted and hired the 'right' ones, what do you plan on doing to keep them there? Your competition (industry and regional) is begging them to leave and chaining employees inside your business just doesn't work as a retention method!...
As an HR consultant who develops employee handbooks, you can guess that "necessity" won out over "nuisance." If your organization's management is spending more time on routine HR and people issues than it should be, and there's no common resource tool to reference for basic answers - an updated, practical handbook is part of your solution. A well written handbook that turns personal decisions into personnel decisions outweighs any headache or cost of creating one....
Formal policy manuals and employees handbooks are not required by law. However, they provide managers with an excellent opportunity to formalize their vision for managing their business and people. They also provide an impartial way to communicate some of those messages that are difficult to discuss one on one because they appear subjective. The following lists some of the issues you may wish to cover in a handbook or business-wide meeting....
How do your employees know what they're supposed to do? How do you know when new employees have mastered all aspects of their jobs? How do you explain job responsibilities to a job applicant? How do you know you're asking the right interview questions and screening candidates correctly? How do you evaluate an employee's job performance?...
Corrective action, disciplinary action, performance warning, whatever you call it -- there are certain employees who take up more of our supervisory time than other employees. We've all experienced new hires who didn't quite turn out as expected and we've all had a once ideal employee whose performance suddenly went astray. What's a supervisor to do? Fix 'em or fire 'em?...
As a business owner, manager, and even as an individual, what makes YOU magnetic? In order for people to want to work with you or your company, it's vital that you have a solid understanding of what makes you magnetic, and that you market those magnetic attributes to your target audience....
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