New employees go through a process that is referred to onboarding. This is the time that the company can make employees feel welcome. It is also a time when they can begin to work on things like creating open communication, sharing a corporate vision, and...
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Companies Jump through Hoops to Please Millennials
Sixty Minutes did a great show on the millennial generation titled The Millennials Are Coming. In that report, they explained how Generation Y or millennials are unique in their expectations at work. The Wall Street Journal’s article Firms Bow to Generation Y’s...
Companies Rewarding Employees for Entrepreneurial Ideas
Gone are the old days of having a suggestion box at work. Today’s modern company has set up some much more sophisticated ways of obtaining knowledge and creative ideas from their employees. The following list contains some useful tools that employers have...
Importance of Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Anyone who has taken a business course has probably seen the acronym CRM. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management and refers to ways of keeping track of interactions with customers. However, it is much more than that. Bain.com does a nice job of defining...
Top 5 Things to Know to be a Successful Entrepreneur
via google.com The typical entrepreneurial personality has the drive and ambition for success. Like anything in life, though, it is always harder to do something the very first time. This can discourage many new entrepreneurs from taking that initial leap and to...
Top Branding Failures
Companies are always looking for that next Old Spice campaign that will become viral on YouTube and get people talking. Effective branding is crucial for a company’s success. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a "name, term, sign, symbol or...
401K Reinrollment: Why Your Money May Be Put Into Target-Dated Funds
Target-dated funds are mutual funds that automatically adjust the asset mix of stocks, bonds and cash usually based on the investor’s future retirement date. Companies have been offering these options for their employees for many years. Some companies are now even...
Top 10 Company Mission Statements
Image via n2growth.com Companies often list their vision and their mission statements on their sites. The difference between a mission statement and a vision statement is that a mission statement focuses on a company’s present state while a vision statement focuses on...
Find Out How Much Jobs Pay
imagevia sixapart.com In a presentation I gave the other night, someone in the audience asked if there was any questions you should not ask in the job interview. One thing that many career experts will tell you is not to bring up money. How then, are you supposed to...
New Study by Krux Digital Shows Data Leakage on Popular Websites
image via media.marketwire.com Data leakage occurs when an external entity, often without a publisher’s consent, collects data about a user while the user is on the publisher’s website. Krux Digital has recently released information from their study that found...
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