Overheard in a conversation around the water cooler: Do you know what my manager said to me this morning? She said I just can’t do anything right! Can you believe it? What’s wrong with her? The same employee who said this also wrote the following comment recently in a 360 degree assessment of her manager:

If you’ve spent any time looking for a job, you’ll know how important it is to get beyond ‘first base’ with a recruiter or employer — in other words, to find ways to persuade the person who screens or assesses your job application that you represent a great fit for the post they’re trying to [...]

Since the first mass production car ever to emerge from a car factory, technology has improved greatly if not tremendously. From the early spooks wheel we have now alloy rims, from simple 2 stroke engines we now have 8 L v engines that tear up the road, not to mention about the luxury that a [...]

Do your employees seem defensive, and do you feel tense when it’s time for the annual performance reviews? Do they often seem to take your constructive feedback as damning criticism? But, what if every evaluation or feedback you offered was received as a gift? The information in this article can help you create an environment [...]

Starting your own small business is both exciting and challenging. Almost without exception it signifies, in some way, a break from the past and a fresh beginning. It also unfortunately brings you face to face with small business failure statistics, which are depressingly high worldwide.