Question by LaceDaBeat: What is the best team building exercises for businesses? We have a smaller company, about 70 employees strong. The people who have been here from the beginning have formed a click or family almost. The new people are excepted overtime, but I feel as if they are being almost too exclusive at [...]
This week winning Workplaces added some new research summaries to our website which speak to how investing in your workplace can improve your competitiveness and bottom line. One of these, a study released last month by the leading online employment platform oDesk, traces the steady growth in contractors used by companies – both because they [...]
Now that it’s December, it’s relatively easy to get a sense of how many companies of all sizes plan to add to their headcount in 2011. Estimates range from 32% to 47% or more. Harder to gauge is how many small firms plan to hire in 2011. (Is it a coincidence that it’s historically been harder to find [...]
Late last year America’s Best Companies shared tips on naming a business. At the top of their list was to make it "memorable, quirky, and unique." Much more recently (on Tuesday) I saw this post from Lennie Rose on her blog for Big Ooga, a Chicago area resource for finding and connecting with accomplished entrepreneurs, [...]
I enjoyed this post by Susan Fronk on the America’s Best Business Practices blog. In it she argues that the one thing that can most positively impact your small business – over and above measures to grow revenue, cut costs, and deliver excellent customer service – is finding and keeping great employees. She provides more [...]
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