Tag: employees
14 Ways to Keep Your Talent Happy and Incentivize “Intrapreneurship”
Q. As a Gen Y founder, how do you keep Gen Y (and X) talent happy? How do you incentivize intrapreneurship over, well, leaving?! The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched [...]
Partner Offer: Get the Right People – 9 Questions for Getting the Best Hires
The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. And as many companies have already learned, quality hiring is now mandatory. In this paper, you’ll learn how the hiring environment [...]
Keep Employees Engaged in Workers’ Comp
Nobody likes workers’ compensation. If we’re honest, everyone hates it. As a business owner, it can be tempting to hang up the mandatory information poster in a break area and never mention workers’ comp until an employee needs it. While it may be tempting to keep employees in the dark by not fully explaining their rights, this [...]
Outsmart Yourself: Hire People Who Know What You Don’t
No one is the best at everything. And when it comes to running a business, you simply can’t do it all. Many entrepreneurs have a variety of great skills, but may be lacking in some essential areas. It can be difficult to admit that you’re not the best in every aspect of your business, but [...]
Three Ways Doubling Your Company’s Size Can Double Your Free Time
Building a business requires a high degree of motivation, focus and support. The first years can be lean, with little spare time. It’s during these times that entrepreneurs might begin to adopt the old adage “You don’t own the business; the business owns you.” However, as the business grows, your confidence, strong team and community [...]
How To Hire the Best Employees For Your Young Startup
Hiring your first staff as a young entrepreneur and business owner is crucial to determining how far you go with growing your company. You have certain challenges as a young business owner looking to hire great talent to work for you. The earlier you know of these challenges and how to overcome them the better [...]
7 Affordable Ways To Boost Your Support Team’s Morale
Unhappy employees can be detrimental to your business. Not only are they less productive and absent more often but turnover costs can accumulate and make it difficult to recover. Lucky for you, improving morale doesn’t have to cost a fortune. The following are 7 affordable ways to boost your support team’s morale. 1. Recognize individual [...]
How do You Create an Environment of Productivity?
Energetic. Electric. Focused. Committed. Professional. Value-based. Determined. Passionate. Inspired. Motivated. These are some of the single-word adjectives people in my company have used to describe the environment I’ve created for us to work in. On any given day in my career helping Realtors sell real estate around the nation, people in leadership often ask the [...]
Lighting the Fire: 8 Ways to Engage Your Staff Through Emotional Investment
Let me start with the bottom line: the economy sucks, and Americans are being forced to find meaning in their work versus meaning in all the materialistic crap we have accumulated over the last few decades. The beauty of this reality is that, as a country, we’re being forced to redefine ourselves, to shift from [...]
10 Steps to Managing Employees Older Than You
Business owners are getting younger and younger, it seems. At the same time, unfortunately, many of our parent’s generations are facing job loss due to layoffs, a receding economy, or changes in trends. Interestingly, these young entrepreneurs are now providing jobs to the hard working, dedicated workers of older generations. As the head of a [...]
