Category Archives for "Small Business"

What does on-call mean

There are a lot of negative aspects of a party attendee being on-call. But let’s think about it from a different perspective. Why do companies need employees on-call? What does it mean to be on-call, anyhow? Why Do Companies Need Employees to be On-Call? Why should someone be on-call if they’re not going to come […]

What to do about Negative Reviews on Company Review Sites

By now, you should be pretty familiar with company review sites. There’s Glassdoor, Indeed, Comparably, Great Place to Work, FairyGodBoss…sound familiar? (If not, check out our post about employer review sites). If you’re familiar with the places where people can share with others what its like to work for you, you may already know what’s […]

Millennial Managers: Leveraging Generational Diversity

The internet loves to pick on millennials. They say we’re lazy, entitled narcissists that continue living with their parents further into adulthood than what is the traditional American norm. We’re either unemployed or underemployed. They say we don’t work hard enough to make our college degrees work for us. We’re too emotional. We’re killing napkins, […]

Annual Employee Performance Reviews Just Won’t Do. Try this instead.

Behind every great team is a great manager or business owner who is keeping everything moving along. But, how? How do you keep staff on track, manage time efficiently, motivate lazy employees, avoid a toxic work environment, and keep great employees? You have to give feedback to the members of your team. That’s why businesses give […]

An Employee Write Up at Work…Where to Start?

So, you’re having problems with an employee. They might be a toxic employee, a lazy employee, or someone brand new to the workforce that doesn’t quite have the hang of things. Whatever the reason, it sounds like it’s time for an employee write up at work. It sounds easy enough. But what if you’ve never […]