10 Ways Our Award-Winning Small Businesses Find and Keep Great Employees
July 27, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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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 value [...]
Two Links to Help You Avoid Taking Good Employees for Granted
July 7, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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In a new post on the Small Business CEO blog, What Works for Business blogger Daniel Kehrer shares 13 mistakes that can jinx your business. The #8 mistake on Kehrer’s list is taking good employees for granted. He explains that,
High turnover and the departure of valued employees can accelerate troubles. Rewards and recognition – even [...]
Turn Famous Stan Lee Quote Around When It Comes to Empowering Employees
June 28, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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In March 2009 I referenced Stan Lee’s quote from Spider-Man – With great power comes great responsibility – in warning small business owners not to take advantage of employees’ willingness to do more in a tough jobs environment. (Although, as I wrote about last week, in the year since then the hiring picture has improved [...]
Businesses with Fewer Than 50 Employees Alone in Employing MORE People Over Last Decade
May 11, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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A trend of extremely small businesses – those with fewer than 50 employees; the majority of American employers – is that they have historically been underserved compared to their larger peers. This, in fact, is a primary reason why Winning Workplaces was founded in 2001 – to equip leaders of these firms with effective, bottom [...]
Small Business Competitive Advantage: When All Employees Know Everything About the Product
April 4, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Have you ever been at a big-box retailer where after the obligatory greeter you’re pretty much forgotten? I must have had hundreds of experiences by now where I was disinclined toward the sale because either an employee couldn’t lead me to the product I was looking for; or even if they did in rare cases, [...]
