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10
Aug

Trust is Key in Recession Proofing Your Business

Trust is Key in Recession Proofing Your Business What do Google, Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, Ford, Tesla, Twitter, Meta, Peloton, Coinbase, CVS, Uber, Carvana, Robinhood, Nestle, QVC, Zillow, Expedia, and Game Stop all have in common? They, among many other companies, have gone through at least one round of layoffs or a hiring slowdown or freeze in the past
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25
Jul

Beyond the Benefits Package: Offering Employees A Better Quality of Life

Beyond the Benefits Package: Offering Employees A Better Quality of Life At the turn of the 20th century, life expectancy was roughly 30 years and most people worked as craftsmen or as farmers.  They only stopped working when they no longer were physically capable of doing the work.  No need for “retirement” funds or healthcare benefits.  If you lived to
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29
Jun

Does your Business Need Energetic Employees?

Does your Business Need Energetic Employees? Did you know that your energy level impacts the type of work you do? Nearly 20% of employees say they have had to take some type of personality test during the hiring process. One of the most frequently assessed work behaviors by PSP’s clients is ENERGY (aka, Drive), which can be defined as “One’s
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17
Jun

What Makes a Successful Remote Employee?

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio What Makes a Successful Remote Employee? Flexplace/flextime, workplace flexibility, remote work, work from home – call it what you want, but even before Covid-19 catapulted most office-bound employees into, what felt like at the time, the cosmos of remote work, the trend of workers wanting flexibility in where, how, and when they work was already growing. 
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31
May

10 Lessons from Herzberg’s Research on Motivating Employees

10 Lessons from Herzberg’s Research on Motivating Employees “If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.” (Dr. Frederick Herzberg) Having a workforce that is motivated, not just satisfied, remains one of the most elusive challenges in business. According to Dr. Herzberg, what motivates people is the work itself.  If the work is
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18
May

Why Learning and Development Should Be an Individualized Process

Photo by Jack Moreh Why Learning and Development Should Be an Individualized Process In my last article, Hiring The Wrong Leaders Is More Costly Than You Might Think! the true cost of hiring a bad manager and the value that hiring a good manager can bring to a company. Now, let’s turn our attention to leader development. The Current State
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2
May

How to Build Inclusive Career Development Programs

How to Build Inclusive Career Development Programs The career development process is typically based on the notion of person-role fit and involves identifying an individual's skills, abilities, and interests; understanding personality, values, and beliefs; and then matching these variables with appropriate potential jobs or next-steps in their career development journey. However, research has revealed that, while this process holds true,
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18
Apr

Leadership Hiring: The Cost of a Bad Hire & How to Prevent it

Leadership Hiring: The Cost of a Bad Hire & How to Prevent it Every HR professional who is connected to talent acquisition knows that cost per hire and time to hire are two key metrics used to measure the efficiency of the recruitment process, but it only represents a fraction of the potential true cost of making a bad hire.
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21
Mar

Why You Should Hire for the Ability to Learn

Why You Should Hire for the Ability to Learn Covid has magnified some of the biggest recruitment challenges and created truly historic talent acquisition and management conditions. The Great Resignation/Shuffle, the Gig economy, remote work, mental health at work, and the renewed war for talent have all sent chills down the spines of HR professionals everywhere.  Even pre-Covid, some of
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7
Mar

The Effects of Negative Attitudes in the Workplace

The Effects of Negative Attitudes in the Workplace “Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities” - Sir Walter Scott If a good attitude costs nothing, then a bad attitude can cost everything. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that negativity in the workplace costs businesses $3 billion a
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