Once You Stop Learning, You Start Dying
“Once you stop learning, you start dying.”
We’re not aiming to be morbid with this quote by Albert Einstein. However, it illustrates the danger of becoming stagnant in our quest for learning and complacent in thinking that what we know right now is enough.
Over the course of this year, we’ve seen how quickly a business landscape can change.
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10 Low Cost, High Benefit Ways to Appreciate Employees
These are challenging times for employers and employees alike.
For most, the last several months have been anything but “business as usual.” Employers are putting in extra hours to adapt to government regulations and changing work environments. Employees are either working more or working less, along with balancing changes in their personal lives.
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Top 4 Mistakes Made by Employees and Employers
Mistakes made by employees, as well as employers, can cost a business in many ways.
We’re not talking about expecting perfection here. We’re talking about repeated negative behaviors that, left unchecked, can have a profound effect on a business – employee morale, as well as the bottom line.
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Protect Your Mental Health
With the outbreak of COVID-19, we understand how critical it is to protect the physical health of ourselves and others. Are we also considering how vital it is to protect our mental health?
We know that our mental health has a huge impact on our overall well being.
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Employee Health and Physical Safety during COVID-19
Employees’ concerns at work have shifted rapidly in recent weeks.
Before the pandemic, employees ranked “meaningful work” as one of the most important aspects of their job. Now, a potentially deadly virus is lurking most everywhere. Employees are more concerned than ever before about their health and physical safety,
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Your Employees are Working Remotely – Now What?
Many businesses are shut down to the public during this time. Even if your employees don’t typically interact with the public, social distancing means that employees cannot continue to work within six feet of one another. Therefore, more employees than ever before are working remotely. This brings up challenges for employees,
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Resources for Small Businesses Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis
“The only constant in life is change.”
This has always been true, but it has never felt truer than in the last few weeks.
New policies and regulations have come out at an amazing speed as a response to COVID-19. Although they are good and helpful,
Our response to COVID-19
To our fellow business owners, clients, family and friends:
These are unprecedented times and uncharted waters. Like so many of you, we are struck by the helplessness we feel against COVID-19. There is no “standard operating procedure” or “best practices” manual that we can look to that will tell us how to navigate a pandemic that has shut down schools,
Employee Engagement: Essential to Business Success
Employees are crucial to the success of your business. They produce the goods or services which, in turn, earn a profit for your business. Often, they are the face of your company as they interact with customers.
You feel like you treat your employees well and they seem to be getting the job done without too much drama.
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Listen in: 6 Ways to Ease the Transition of Adding Employees to Your Business
As a sole proprietor, are you overwhelmed with your business?
Are the necessary evils of running a business hindering you from focusing on what your business is about?
Are you thinking about adding an employee to help ease the workload and bring back some work/life balance to your life?
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