By Ben Gold, President, QuickBridge Employee productivity is vital to your business’s success. Increasing employee productivity requires small business owners to motivate and engage their workers. If you’re a small business owner looking to ramp up productivity, you may face significant resource limitations. Driving productivity gains isn’t necessarily simple. Consider these five key tactics: 1. […]
TIP TUESDAY: Toothpaste Can’t Go Back in the Tube – 6 Tips for Workplace Communication
A preschool teacher taught a message to her students on Words that Hurt. She used a tube of toothpaste and a paper plate per student for this hands-on activity. Twelve small children eagerly squeezed the entire contents of a tube of toothpaste onto a paper plate, giggling as their plates filled up with minty […]
TIP TUESDAY: Handling Tough Conversations with Employees
{Excerpted from an article at SHRM online; click here to read the full text} Over the course of her HR career, Eileen Habelow estimates that she spent 80 percent of her time coaching managers and leaders on how to have difficult conversations. As the president of Leadership-Link, a Boston-based consulting firm that works with small […]