TIP TUESDAY: A New Employee’s First Day

An effective onboarding process ensures that new hires will feel welcome and prepared to take on their job, and understand the requirements of the position and performance expectations. Successful onboarding will also contribute to the likelihood that your new employee will become a long-time employee! The checklist below can help you outline your employee onboarding […]

TIP TUESDAY: 8 Phrases a Great Boss Tells/Asks Employees

{excerpted from The Ladders online newsletter} Communication can play a large role in determining your effectiveness and success as a leader. How you communicate with your employees can either show them they are valued or make them feel disposable. Great bosses find themselves using the following positive reinforcements, questions, and statements of gratitude on a […]

WORKFACT WEDNESDAY: Injuries in the Workplace

Overexertion and falls account for more than $25 billion in workers’ compensation costs in the U.S. The leading cause of injury on the list, overexertion, was typically related to lifting, pushing, pulling, holding, carrying or throwing. Other exertions, which came in at number five, includes injuries due to bending, crawling, reaching, twisting, climbing, stepping, kneeling, […]

TIP TUESDAY: Linkedin Offers Unique Marketing Tools

{excerpted from an article by Jim Kendall from his blog and which originally appeared in the Daily Herald newspaper} LinkedIn launched, officially, in May 2003. A month later, the network had 4,500 members. Third quarter last year (2016, if your calendar is slow), LI had 467 million members worldwide; in the United States, LinkedIn membership […]

WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: Local Business Owner Wins National Small Business Person of the Year!

Linda McMahon, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, recognized Rebecca Fyffe, owner of Schaumburg, Illinois-based Landmark Pest Management, Monday as 2018’s  Small Business Person of the Year  at a ceremony and reception at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.   Rebecca took over a struggling business in 2001 when she was […]

TIP TUESDAY: Celebrate Small Business Week

National Small Business Week 2018 kicked off April 29 with an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. where national award winners including the naming of this year’s national Small Business Person of the Year. National Small Business Week is being held from April 29-May 5 and is an annual event hosted by the U.S. Small Business […]