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5 Simple Tips To Lead Your Remote Workers During A Crisis
Leading remote workers during a crisis requires leaders to be more compassionate, flexible and communicative. Otherwise, cultures can turn toxic quickly.
4 Strategies To Repair A Toxic Culture From The Top Down
In the past decade, the landscape of what’s considered acceptable in the workplace has changed dramatically. More companies are being exposed for their toxic workplace practices. Scandals such as NBC, Away and Orange. shows how rampant bullying is across all...
4 Simple Steps To Defining A Strong Set Of Core Values Your Company Lives By
The biggest mistake most leaders and companies make is they mimic the core values that their competitors have or they define core values they think their clients and employees want. These artificial values then hold no substance. For example, a company might define...
Everything You Need To Know About My Trip To Zappos
If you're anything like me, you're obsessed with memorable customer service and quality products. I've been following Zappos for quite a while since learning about their unique culture and customer service obsessed culture. You can imagine my excitement when I...
Job Seekers: The Interview Questions You Should Be Asking To Uncover A Toxic Workplace
*The bolded words are hyperlinked to great articles I highly recommend you to read It's easy to overlook a potentially toxic opportunity especially if you don't know what you're looking for. Traditionally, employers dominated the interviews using interrogative...
5 Ways To Increase Visibility And Build Brand Authority
The biggest challenge business owners and career professionals face today is increasing visibility so they can stand out as a leader in their industry. Personal branding is more than having a logo and brand colors, it’s your presence, your reputation and how you’re...
3 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Storytelling To Recruit The Best Talent
As the next generation of workers take over the workforce, small business owners and human resource professionals are struggling with knowing how to win them over and convert them into employees. A recent Forbes article I wrote found the "U.S. is experiencing extreme...
Failing To Achieve The Life You Want? 5 Ways A Business Coach Can Help
A confidence coach is an invaluable mentor that pinpoints and flips destructive thoughts and behaviors while inspiring a breakthrough in thinking to build more confidence. In the past few years, the world of coaching has exploded valuing it at over a $1 billion a year...
4 Illegal Job Interview Questions That Are Sabotaging Your Reputation
Learn the interview questions you’re most likely asking that are hurting your business and keeping you from attracting high ticket clients. This post breaks down 4 questions you need to stop asking and giving you alternative questions to ask instead.
8 Elements of an NDA for Remote and International Workers
This blog post breaks down the elements, two forms and enforcing a non-disclosure agreement between remotes workers and two countries.
How Investing in Your Employee Experience Increases Revenue by 3%
2018 marks a monumental transformation of the workplace that will redefine the focus of the business as we know it. The traditional customer-centric mentality is now a thing of the past with the spotlight being turned to an employee-centric environment. Businesses are...
4 Simple Ways To Maximize Productivity As A New Leader
The responsibilities of leadership can be overwhelming especially for new leaders. Trying to manage your day-to-day, a new team and personal life can seem almost impossible. Most leaders struggle to effectively manage their time between it all and at least one area...
4 Ways CEOs And Founders Can Tackle Bullying In The Workplace
It can be difficult to understand the true impact of how destructive bullying is to someone who has never been bullied before. As an HR professional who was bullied as both an intern and again more severely by my boss, a member of the tight-knit leadership team, I can...
What Workplace Bullying Looks Like And How You Can Take Back Your Power
Workplace bullying is on the rise and the recent NBC scandal with Gabrielle Union shows nobody, regardless of status, is exempt from experiencing it. A reported 96% of Americans are bullied at work. The most shocking part is, according to a survey Joseph Grenny and...
Onboarding Your New Hire With An Email That Makes Them Excited To Work For You
Startups and small businesses invest their time and money into recruiting the best people for their business yet they neglect the most important pieces after the contract is signed, onboarding. A welcome email is more than a simple “welcome to our company”, it’s the...
Top 4 Recruiting Mistakes Small Businesses Make And How To Fix Them
As a human resources consultant, the biggest challenge small business owners face when growing their business is recruiting and retaining the best people. Either they wait until the last minute and hire out of desperation or they make mistakes that aren't so obvious...
How To Create A Solid Recruiting Strategy To Improve Your Candidate Experience
Recently, I wrote and published a Forbes article outlining the seven common mistakes recruiters make when it comes to attracting quality tech talent. As a coach, consultant and speaker, one of the questions people often ask is how to create a structured recruiting...
4 Assessments Your Business Needs to Make Recruiting Effortless
Creating a strategy and putting a process in place for your recruitment will help prioritize candidates, get the most qualified through the recruiting funnel, eliminate the ones that aren't and fill positions faster. This post will break down the four different...
3 Ways WeWork Can Mitigate Concern With New Policy
This past week, WeWork, a global coworking community, announced a new policy banning meat from being served at company events and reimbursed on employee expense reports. Cofounder, Miguel McKelvey stated the reason for this bold move is the company's way of saving the...
Why You Should Stop Training Your Employees and Do This Instead
A business is only as successful as its weakest employee. As baby-boomers are draining out and millennials are flooding in, the new workplace culture redefines the way businesses operate . Once ruled by hierarchies and silos, the new working dominate working...
How a Career in Corporate HR Led to Global Entrepreneurship
Discover the 3 C's that gave me the credibility and confidence to take the leap from corporate to entrepreneurship. I was quite honestly, hands down the worst HR person in the history of corporate. I mean, what other HR person do you know who would get scolded for...
Why Hard Skills Are Overrated and What Matters Instead
Up until recently, soft skills didn't get the recognition they deserved, but as Peggy Klaus says "without them they can make or break your career". Employers have recognized the impact neglecting soft skills has on their business’ overall success. Hard skills are...
How to Rise Up and Stand Out as an Ambitious Leader in Business in 4 Simple Steps
Learn the 4 step process, combining internal and external ambition, successful leaders use to overcome challenges, self-sabotage, and the doubt of others to achieve the impossible.