Leadership

Empowering and leading others to do and be more.

8 Ways Start-Ups Can Ensure Employee Satisfaction

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  Employee satisfaction plays a significant role in employee motivation. It’s when employees are contented with the work environment and fulfill their responsibilities with ease. Happy employees are loyal, effective, and productive. They are engaged and always look forward to another working day.   Employees can get dissatisfied because of various reasons. These include: When businesses […]

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HR Tips: Ways to Manage Payroll Effectively and Efficiently

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When managing payroll, an essential thing to ensure is the information you input accurately reflects the staff’s working hours. It can be challenging for managers with many employees or only update their summary every few months, but those mistakes could cost them big in taxes! To avoid headaches down the road, ensure all data matches

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Performance Appraisals Series Part 3:  How You Can Prepare For Your Own Performance Review

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Performance Appraisals when used effectively, can be a great way to increase employee engagement.  What if you are the one being reviewed?  How can you ensure that you can effectively highlight your own performance?  This can be a nerve-racking process, but there are steps you can take to better prepare yourself? This is the third

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Performance Appraisals Series Part 2:  Delivering an Effective Performance Review

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Performance Appraisals when used effectively, can be a great way to increase employee engagement.  Do you remember the last review you gave someone?  Did the end result meet your expectations?  Performance Reviews should be part of a yearlong performance management process.  It is meant to be a summary of all the conversations and one-on-ones that

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Performance Appraisals Series Part 1:  Are Performance Reviews Still Worth It?

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For those of you that have just finished their fiscal year in January, it is that time of year again.  The Annual Performance Review is something that you either dread (both as an employee or employer), or look forward to.  The way you feel about the upcoming performance review may reflect how well of a

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How to Define Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Work

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). If “DEI” or any of the variations – EDI or DIE – were a brand, the marketing lead would be fired for developing and launching a mixed message marketing campaign with dangerously false advertising. The DEI “brand” is deeply misunderstood, and the words are used uncritically and interchangeably. As a practitioner

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How To Lead An International Business More Effectively

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Leadership is essentially the same in all circumstances, albeit with some surface differences, so whatever you have already learned about leadership can usually more or less be applied to new arenas that you are facing. If you have recently expanded your business internationally, this is a perfect example of a time when you are going

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10 Transactional Leadership Characteristics & Attributes

10 Transactional Leadership Characteristics & Attributes

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What is one characteristic of a transactional leader? To help you better understand transactional leadership, we asked business leaders for their insights. From focusing on results to outlining expectations, here are several characteristics and attributes of transactional leaders.  Here are 10 characteristics of a transactional leader: Focuses on Results Prioritizes Company Needs Requires Clear Communication

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6 Ways to use technology to improve productivity at the workplace

5 Ways Project Management Tools Improve Employee Productivity 

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“Improved productivity means less sweat, not more.”- Henry Ford A productive workforce is one of the biggest assets your business organization can possess. Productive employees accomplish more, deliver better quality of work, and lead an organization to success. As a result, you make every possible effort to cultivate a productive workforce. But, have you tried

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