Small-business owners have a natural interest in keeping their employees happy, productive and well-motivated. One of the best ways to accomplish these...
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Keep Your Employees Safe in the Heat With Hydration Drinks
In physically demanding jobs like construction, hydration is essential to not only worker productivity but also safety. This is especially the case...
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Use Positive Management Strategies to Make Your Employees Feel Valued
Do your employees feel like they matter? In other words, do they feel valued by and connected to their managers and coworkers,...
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How to Avoid Workers’ Compensation Fraud at Your Pumping Business
Workers’ compensation provides an important safety net for employees and business owners alike. In a nutshell, a good workers’ comp policy ensures...
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How to Craft an Employment Brochure
When you work here, you get a take-home van, cellphone, health care benefits and a 401K. Now be here at 8 a.m....
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Help Employees Foster a Sense of Pride
For more than a year now, approximately 4 million American workers a month have left their jobs — that’s nearly 49 million...
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6 Tips for Handling Employee Layoffs Sensitively
While managing employees can be an incredibly rewarding experience, it’s not without its fair share of struggles. Some of the most challenging...
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How to Keep Employees Engaged Amidst Increasing Workplace Apathy
Recent employee engagement statistics depict a worrisome trend: Employees everywhere are more detached from the workplace than ever, apathetic about their jobs...
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How to Mitigate Performance Bias Among Your Workers
Despite our best intentions, we all have biases, both conscious and unconscious. And in the workplace, these biases — defined as systematic...
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How to Keep Your Crew Prepared for Change
Henna Inam, an executive coach, speaker and author, has some helpful advice for organizations grappling with a seemingly endless series of workplace...
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Finding and Retaining Good Workers Begins With Respect
Many companies invest heavily to improve the customer experience but sideline employees who are responsible for delivering that experience. What some business...
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Don’t Stay Silent About Unsafe Behavior on the Job
So you see a colleague violating a safety procedure while operating an excavator, or breaking office ethics protocol.
Given most people’s propensity for...
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How to Subdue the Potential Toxicity of Workplace Rhetoric
A survey conducted last year by The Harris Poll for job-search platform Glassdoor showed that 60% of 1,200 respondents felt it was unacceptable...
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Keys to Effective Communication for Project Leaders
A study from consulting firm FMI Corporation and PlanGrid discovered that 52% of all construction industry rework is a result of poor data...















