Passing the Fair-Pay Test: Determining if Your Salaries are Competitive
How do your salaries stack up against your competitors’? Keep your employees — and keep them happy — by comparing pay rates across your industry.
How do your salaries stack up against your competitors’? Keep your employees — and keep them happy — by comparing pay rates across your industry.
Employee handbooks should be more than just a pile of photocopies you thrust at a new hire. Handbooks provide a common framework for communicating your corporate culture. If used properly, they can protect you legally as well.
Can anyone in your company give you a figure for TOTAL expenditures last year in replacing employees? You might be surprised to find that you are spending more on turnover than on retaining the employees you have.
You’ve heard of JIT to use warehouse space better and to deliver goods to customers more efficiently. Can it work for your operation? How do you implement it?
Have you heard yourself speak recently? You gain or lose business because of what you say and how you say it. Learn ways to improve your style.
Are you looking out for violence at work? You should be. Avoid both minor calamities and major tragedies by identifying risky behaviors and implementing a plan of preventive action.
Place emphasis on internal succession planning, so the employees you mentor will be motivated to stick around for a long time.
Litigation leads to expensive, messy, public confrontations with uncertain outcomes. However, alternatives exist for disputing parties. Mediation or arbitration can bring faster and cheaper resolutions with concern for privacy and relationships.
We’ve brainstormed a long list of basic marketing techniques to better attract your customer. Some of them don’t even cost any money.
Armed with improved skills, you’ll be amazed at how much better you can hear and understand what those around you are saying. Make every meeting or casual conversation truly a two-way street.