Hub You - Business

How to Train Yourself for a New Job
If you’ve been looking for a job for any length of time, you’ll notice there are many out there beyond your level of expertise. Why is that? Is it because of your education? Your lack of experience? If you want to move ahead in your career, sometimes you need to make yourself more marketable. How exactly can you do that?Further Your EducationMany jo

unities Tactful discipline
8 Personal loyalty to workers Full appreciation for work done
9 Good working conditions Sympathetic help with personal issues
10 Tactful discipline Feeling “part” of things

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always

Web Branding Matters -- Part One
There is a new concept in branding: online branding. If you want to know exactly what that means, you only have to take the traditional definitions of branding and adapt them to the Web. Then you’ll get a simple definition: online branding makes your visitors believe that you are the only answer to their problems.Every business has a brand; so don’t go around say

A major problem for business owners and employers today is getting the best employees and then keeping them. Sounds easy, but any employer will tell you that these activities take up the most time and have the biggest impact on business results. So how do you go about retaining the good people once you’ve found them?

Understanding what your employees want from a workplace sounds like a logical place to start. After all, if you know what your employees are after, you simply need to provide it and all will be well. This is a great theory, but research shows that employers are not that successful at identifying what their employees actually want. In fact there is a significant disconnect between the things that employees say are important to them, and how highly employers rank those same things.

This survey first came out in 1946 in Foreman Facts, from the Labor Relations Institute of NY and was produced again by Lawrence Lindahl in Personnel magazine, in 1949. This study has since been replicated with similar results by Ken Kovach (1980); Valerie Wilson, Achievers International (1988); Bob Nelson, Blanchard Training & Development (1991); and Sheryl & Don Grimme, GHR Training Solutions (1997-2001).

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

What Employees Want What Managers Think Their Employees Want
1 Full appreciation for work done Good wages
2 Feeling “part” of things Job Security
3 Sympathetic help on personal issues Promotion/growth opportunities
4 Job Security Good working conditions
5 Good wages Interesting work
6 Interesting work Personal loyalty to workers
7 Promotion/growth opportunities Tactful discipline
8 Personal loyalty to workers Full appreciation for work done
9 Good working conditions Sympathetic help with personal issues
10 Tactful discipline Feeling “part” of things

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always

Agent Recruiting in 2006: Not the Same Old Drill
Let's start off with a given. The 2006 real estate market is tough and unlike anything we've seen in five years. The problem is if we go back five years, it was the advent of the Internet in residential brokerage. We're at an historical point in our business. While the go-go market was going on, real estate consumers changed. Now that we're in a more traditional market,

know what your employees are after, you simply need to provide it and all will be well. This is a great theory, but research shows that employers are not that successful at identifying what their employees actually want. In fact there is a significant disconnect between the things that employees say are important to them, and how highly employers rank those same things.

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always

Myths And Mysteries Of Taking Minutes
Minute taking has changed over the years. The requirements and expectations of the 21st century are very different from the expectations even 10, but certainly 20 and 30 years ago. Here are some points for you to consider about minutes and taking minutes.• Minutes are written for people who were at the meeting, not for people who were not! They are not designed t

m the Labor Relations Institute of NY and was produced again by Lawrence Lindahl in Personnel magazine, in 1949. This study has since been replicated with similar results by Ken Kovach (1980); Valerie Wilson, Achievers International (1988); Bob Nelson, Blanchard Training & Development (1991); and Sheryl & Don Grimme, GHR Training Solutions (1997-2001).

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always

Inventory Costing
There are several ways to determine the value of your inventory and each type of valuation has benefits. The most common type used by small businesses is average cost or weighted average costing. This is based on the average cost of identical units. Using the total actual cost of all similar items available for sale divided by the number of units available for sale woul

ranked them very differently:

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always

Know The Power of Your Words
Know The Power of Your Words When is the last time you gave your business a good self examine? If its been awhile then it might be time and in doing so one of the most important questions you can ask is simply: Are you what you say you are? Is your product or service in tune with what you advertise? If it isn't, then you could

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always about the money.

WHAT EMPLOYEES SAY THEY WANT (in order)
1. Full appreciation for work done
2. Feeling ‘part’ of things
3. Sympathetic help on personal issues
4. Job security
5. Good wages
6. Interesting work
7. Promotion/growth opportunities
8. Personal loyalty to workers
9. Good working conditions
10. Tactful discipline

WHAT MANAGERS THINK EMPLOYEES WANT (in order)
1. Good wages
2. Job security
3. Promotion/growth opportunities
4. Good working conditions
5. Interesting work
6. Personal loyalty to workers
7. Tactful discipline
8. Full appreciation for work done
9. Sympathetic help on personal issues
10. Feeling ‘part’ of things

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.iadvice.info/article/23337/iadvice-How-Well-do-Employers-Really-Know-What-Their-Staff-Want.html">How Well do Employers Really Know What Their Staff Want?</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.iadvice.info/article/23337/iadvice-How-Well-do-Employers-Really-Know-What-Their-Staff-Want.html]How Well do Employers Really Know What Their Staff Want?[/url]

It is well known that inadequate hand washing can lead to the spread of germs. However, as cleaning professionals it is sometimes overlooked how important this is in our industry. Even if your cleaning staff is wearing gloves, it is still important that they spend the extra time necessary to make sure chemicals and germs are thoroughly washed off their hands

While meetings can easily get unproductive and do nothing more than drain your energy, it does not have to be that way. Here are some practical guidelines that can boost the pay off from every hour of your meetings.

Tags

Links

Hub You - How Well do Employers Really Know What Their Staff Want?

Related Articles: