Work can’t be a constant laugh-fest. If the office perpetually resembles an after-hours club in Ibiza, no work will get done. Alternatively, if each day seems like a dour slog through a Stalin-era gulag, it doesn’t bode well for long-term efficiency either. It’s easy to mistake serious and boring for professionalism but tamping down too…
In any sports league, there’s preseason and then there are the games that matter. The players tend to go through the motions on the preseason schedule, saving themselves for the games that actually count in the standings. People often treat an interview with a recruiter like a preseason game. They assume that since the recruiter…
Your business operates 24 hours a day. You can’t oversee it all that time (although you try). Additional shifts mean additional profits. Unfortunately, they also mean additional complications. Take safety, for instance. Maintaining safety standards across your second and third shifts can pose a significant challenge. Non-traditional shifts are often more difficult to control directly….
You thought the worst part was over. You sweated through the interview, overcoming the social and professional pressure of selling yourself to strangers (and you did a pretty good job too, in your humble opinion). But something worse is on the way: the wait. Once the interview ends, you’re left in limbo as the powers…
Safety starts with employees. Frontline workers can operate like a safety spy network, deployed throughout your facility, looking for possible hazards and reporting them before they become real problems. Run-of-the-mill operations take employees through most parts of your facility on a day-to-day basis. They are in a great position to find potentially dangerous situations early….
Developing a real friendship with your boss will always seem a little fraught. Too many complications (like them being able to tell you what to do) will prevent a mutual, balanced relationship. Still, building a connection with your manager can have many long-term career benefits. Even if your relationship remains strictly professional (you never talk…
The everyday process of going to work is hard enough. Getting up early. Fighting traffic or the crowds on public transportation. Standing in line for your morning coffee. Everything gets worse if you’ve got a Debbie Downer waiting for you once you get to work. The drudgery of a commute is quickly quashed if your…
It’s been an obsession of business writers for a least the past decade and a half: what to do about millennials? When they were teenagers, people fretted about how to market to them. Then, concern shifted to how to deal with them as new college graduates in the workplace. Now, with the older cohort of…
Five years ago, you were staring blankly at the front wall of your cubicle, lamenting another day sacrificed to a go-nowhere dead-end job. Now? Still staring blankly at the front wall of your cubicle, lamenting … well, you get the point. The problem? Five years ago, you didn’t make a plan to energize your career….
The direct financial cost of a bad hire can mount quickly. Start adding up the time and effort of the recruitment process, plus the onboarding and training for the short-lived employee. Throw in that person’s salary for the brief time they worked for you and it can really add up. As painful as the financial…
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