Want a team player? Ask these 5 questions
Uncover a job candidate’s teamwork talents (or lack thereof) by asking these five questions.
Category: People Skills
Welcome new hires
Welcome new hires by taking their pictures and posting them in a high-traffic area.
Manager vs. manager
For the second year in a row, I have composed a short e-mail invite to the managers and supervisors on staff. Another employee informed me that the words ‘managers’ and ‘supervisors’ should be capitalized. What is the correct capitalization in this situation?
Do your part to retain good employees
You may not be able to dole out raises, but you can pose thought-provoking questions to the admins you manage.
Need some part-time summer help?
E-mail your job opening to Teens4Hire.org, which reaches about 2 million self-motivated teens across the United States who are looking for work.
Mark your territory
Work with space invaders?
Handling a workplace bully
Studies show that one in four employees suffers from bullying at work. Judy Fisher-Blando of the University of Phoenix offers these rules on handling the situation.
Rebounding from a peer’s verbal ‘blast’
It happens at meetings more often than it should: Co-workers bad-mouth one another’s work in front of the group. Nothing is quite as frustrating as being “cut off at the knees.”
Prepare yourself for difficult interactions
Prepare yourself for difficult interactions by singing your very own theme song in your mind.
Stop being so darn … available
Show others that you attach a high value to your time, and they won’t squander it. That’s the advice of productivity coach Laura Stack, author of Find More Time, who recommends using availability management.