Tag: careers
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Train or Die!
I have been deeply involved in recruiting in helping to build a construction renovation company. Anyone that is looking for help knows how difficult the current market is for finding talented help. There is simply not enough qualified and experienced candidates for the positions that are open. In past years, finding new help was rather…
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Don’t Be A Pac-Man!
Are you getting swallowed up? Do you remember the game Pac-Man? This is going back a bunch of years, but it was one of the first video/arcade games where the Pac-Man travelled the course swallowing up all the cookies as he goes along. Never stopping. Devouring the cookies. The cookies just go away. I used…
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Don’t Do This When People Make Mistakes
We all screw up sometime. Maybe a careless moment or a poor evaluation of the circumstance. There are consequences when mistakes are made. I have been “blessed” many times with being clean-up crew when there is a big mess that needs to be cleaned up. The fact is mistakes are how we learn. I have…
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A Fan
This is a post from a friend named Jennifer who writes a blog called How’s Your Love Life. She writes on relationships and I really enjoy her writing style. I’m sure that you will too! This is a great message and tribute to all the Moms on their special day. Moms support and protect. They…
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Twenty Questions
One of the most common management practices is to enter the office of your report and after a few little icebreakers, begin to fire off the questions: Is the project on schedule? Have you handled the budget overrun? Were you able to engage a vendor yet? Did you fix the issue with the client? And…
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Are Your Best Employees About To Leave?
I don’t typically post articles but here is a great article from Inc. Magazine. I could relate to most of these at one time or another in my career. This may be a great time for you to examine the conditions in your company and reflect on the value of your key employees! Most companies…
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