Keeping Respect a High Priority to Avoid Workplace Conflicts
Sometimes we cause a conflict with a co-worker, subordinate, or supervisor when we unwittingly act disrespectfully toward them. In this article, we will examine a couple ways that showing disrespect can creep into your workplace and how it can result in low morale, unworkable team relationships, decreased productivity, and possible liabilities.

Good Stewardship, Praise, and Insight
Good management is good stewardship One of your many responsibilities as a manager is helping employees get what they need in order to be successful in their jobs... Praise is welcome anywhere, right? With all the praise and recognition employees seem to crave, you'd think it wouldn't matter where or how you give it. But it does matter—a lot... Collect employees'insights Rush projects and last-second demands often inspire employees to come up with great ideas. Yet typically in the midst of the frenzy, there’s no time to document them...

Responding to request to work from home—Part 2
In Part 1 of this topic series, we addressed the growing trend of telecommuting within the professional world. Whether your employer has a formal policy or not, consider these additional guidelines to effectively evaluate employee requests to work from home...

Summer Hiring Tips
When hiring employees for the summer months, it is important that they complete an orientation training program covering job duties and responsibilities as well as company policies and procedures. The fact that these employees will be with the company for only a short period of time is no excuse for a summer worker lacking familiarity with this information.

Responding to request to work from home—Part 1
During the past decade, telecommuting has grown from an unusual arrangement that existed only in certain isolationist professions, to a fairly common occurrence across corporate America. Recent statistics estimate that over two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies have formal telecommuting programs, and sixty percent of those companies currently holding-out plan to start such programs over the next few years.