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Talents are the key to hiring the right employee or for job seekers to apply for and get the right job. Fire Up! makes it easy with the Talent and Thinking Style Assessment for MANAGERS to learn how to...
View ArticleCan all employees be fired up?
There are some employees that, even after a Herculean effort to put them in the right job and get them personally connected to their work, still seem disinterested, disengaged and distracted. What to...
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The Seven Steps to Finding the “Right” Job
How to Find the Job You Love Most people don’t believe that it is possible to love your job – to love what you do and to be passionate about doing it. Most feel that work is how you make the money to...
View ArticleGet More Done With Less
Today’s recession has forced many organizations to reduce their staffing. Headcount is down but workload is not. So fewer employees have to get more things done. I am not talking about overworking...
View ArticleWhich of These Do Your Employees Say?
Do your employees say, “I have to go to work”? Or do they say, “I can’t wait to go to work”? I know you think many employees will always be down about or disinterested in work. But consider this. What...
View ArticleEmployees Must Earn Their Place on the Team
The recession has been an education. It showed us many things, the most significant being that every employee must be a value-builder, a team player and a customer connector, or they are not needed....
View ArticleGet More Done With Less
Many organizations have been carrying extra employees for years – employees who continued to show up each day without adding a level of value commensurate with their pay and benefits. The recession...
View ArticleThe 2 Reasons Why It Is So Hard To Hire The Right Person
And What To Do About It Though our workplace has changed, most companies still hold onto an outdated approach to hiring employees, resulting in performance and retention problems. We are in a service...
View ArticleSo, What Are You Good At?
I hate to be the one to tell you but you are not great at everything. That is just how it works. But even though you aren’t great at everything, you are great at some things. Find those and build them...
View ArticleWhat M&M’s Tell Us About Hiring and Voting
With the election on us, I am reminded of a lesson I teach when working with organizations to define, attract, hire and retain the best talent – the wisdom of M&M candies. An M&M’s real value...
View ArticleYou Say You Want A Great Company…
But you know how it goes. You can’t have a great company without great people. This past week the NY Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote an OP-ED titled, Americans Want the Greatness Back. He presented...
View ArticleHere Today, Here Tomorrow – Keeping Great Employees
At a time when most companies’ conversations with their employees are about just surviving today, a company I work with is actively talking about the future – their future and how their employees are...
View ArticleBe ‘the’ Best vs. Be ‘your’ Best
I remember back to when my kids played soccer in my town’s youth league. Though we all wanted our kids to play well and make a difference on the team, one parent was obsessed with their daughter being...
View Article3 Ways To Make Every Job Interview A Great Job Interview
I ask this question to all of my business audiences, ”Why do you interview?” The answer is always the same – to hire someone. Actually, you interview to gather enough information to be able to hire the...
View Article3 Ways To Reduce Workplace Stress
Ready for some alarming statistics? 83% of American workers say they feel stressed out by their jobs (this is up from 73% in 2011). The number 1 cause of stress is what is called “job pressure” – the...
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