Employee development is different from employee training. While training focuses on optimizing the performance of specific tasks, development programs are more broad. Employee development programs go deeper with emphasis on personal and professional growth in an effort to help employees reach their full potential. Development is about helping your employee think ahead to, and prepare…
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You set the time and date well in advance. You set aside time to research and prepare your ideas. Then all that time and preparation seems a waste because your client calls in a last-minute cancellation or is a no-show. While a client’s inability to keep their obligation probably has nothing to do with you…
As you may know, customer reviews play an important role in helping people research products, services, and brands that they’re interested in. Trustpilot is one of many platforms that helps to facilitate this process by collecting and publishing reviews and business data. In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into what Trustpilot is and…
Effective employee training programs directly correlate to the success of any business. Preparing employees to do their job accurately, efficiently, and safely makes a huge difference to employees and the bottom line. Volumes have been written on how to design training programs! There is so much to talk about on this topic. So to keep…
Working from home is all the rage now, whether you’ve been forced to create a home office after your job shifted to remote work or you’re a freelancer who’s happily embraced the WFH lifestyle. But if you don’t already have an at-home job – or if you want to add to your current workload –…
After countless rounds of interviews, you have finally found the perfect candidate for the key role you needed to fill in your organization. You want them to love your business as much as you do and to meet productivity goals as soon as possible. To meet both goals, you need an employee onboarding plan. If…
If you don’t have a cancellation policy in place for your business, make this task item number one on your to-do list for this week. Your time is money. That includes the time you spend planning for and holding meetings with your clients. Next to a contract, a cancellation policy is one of the most…
You may not want to be a micro-manager or a helicopter boss, but when it comes to running a team, you have to have some control over when and how they work. Time tracking software helps supervisors and accounting departments know exactly how much work is getting done and what needs to be paid for…
Running a business – whether it’s an entirely online enterprise or a brick-and-mortar store with a supplementary e-commerce site – requires the maintenance of numerous tasks. It would quickly become overwhelming to try and manage all of these responsibilities manually, which is why you might want to automate some of them with a tool such…
When you’re first starting out as an entrepreneur, it can be easy to see all the revenue coming in and think you’re set when it comes to profits. However, if you’re not sure how much money your business makes versus what costs are required to keep it running, you won’t be able to set an…