The Engagement Report Gives You New Descriptors to Increase Understanding Direct Communicators (Formerly Known as High Ds) Are ambitious, forceful, decisive, strong-willed, independent and goal-oriented when dealing with problems and challenges. Reflective Communicators (Formerly Known as Low Ds) Are cooperative, low-key, modest and mild when dealing with problems and challenges. Outgoing Communicators […]
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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business
The baby boomer generation has been discussed, dissected and debated since its emergence in the mid-1940s. Seventy-six million strong, the group was the center of a new youth-oriented America with changing social norms, new suburbs, and growing modernizations and opportunities. Boomers have also dominated the American workforce. As they reach the winter of their careers, […]
Four Steps to Improve Poor Performance
Underperforming employees are not hard to find. They are perpetually tardy or absent, or procrastinate and mismanage projects. They are cavalier about company rules, create conflict in the ranks or seem to do just enough to get by. They abuse the system. For fellow employees these individuals are a sore thumb, a drag on productivity […]
Four Ways to Grow Your Business
While many economic indicators have pointed to the economy’s recovery, small businesses are still feeling the pinch. According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. Plus more than half say the bad economy […]
Futren’s Strategies for Employee Retention
Businesses in the hospitality and food and beverage industries face many challenges. They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. One small business […]
Four Keys to Attract and Retain Millennials
The youngest generation in today’s workforce, Millennials or Generation Y, has brought new challenges to companies. These 20 and 30-somethings are the largest generation in human history and will comprise 40 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They are driven, task-oriented, social and technologically savvy. They […]
