Level Up Leadership
It’s no secret that employees who are the most loyal and the most productive are those employees who are passionate about what they’re doing. Work is what we spend nearly half of our waking hours on. Work tends to take over most people’s lives, and there’s a reason they call it “work.” It’s challenging, it’s…
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Hiring new employees is a lot like dating. When you try to find a potential mate, you go on dates with people that you find attractive to see if there’s a good fit. However, that fit can’t be one-sided: your date is also trying to decide whether or not you are attractive to them. It’s…
read moreAs your business pushes forward into the new year, there’s a good chance that you have a nice big file of year-end assessments sitting on your desk. Hopefully those assessments give you some solid insights into what your employees are doing well and also the areas where they might need help. Assessments are a good…
read moreWhen you hire an employee for a specific role or promote an employee to a job you think will be a good fit for them, in most cases you’re working off of your gut instincts. If the person is a new hire, you have their resume, you have their references, and you have your first…
read moreIn his New York Times blog, Jay Goltz shared an anecdote about his management style. When asked by a young MBA how he kept his employees so happy, Goltz told the young man that half of the trick was treating them well, and the other half was firing the unhappy ones. This sounds a bit…
read moreHiring good employees is one of the toughest challenges facing businesses of every size, but the consequences of hiring a bad employee can be particularly crippling if you’re a small business owner. Having the right people in the right jobs is essential to moving your company forward, creating a solid company culture, and putting your…
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