Making Safety a Priority on All Shifts

Making Safety a Priority on All Shifts

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….

The Right Way to Follow Up

The Right Way to Follow Up

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…

Training Employees to Spot Hazardous Situations

Training Employees to Spot Hazardous Situations

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….

Managing Millennials

Managing Millennials

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…

The Cost of a Bad Hire

The Cost of a Bad Hire

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…