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Infographic: How much does a bad hire cost?
Jennifer Gladstone Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementHiring the right person for your job is one of the most important decisions you can make. A bad hire can lead to everything from attendance issues and dips in productivity to potential theft and lost customers. It can mean extra work for current employees and they struggle to make up for lost time while hiring someone new.
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Job growth bounces back in October
Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEmployers added 261,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October versus a revised gain of 18,000 in September, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October unemployment rate was 4.1 percent versus 4.2 percent in September. The number of people out of work fell by 281,000 to 6.5 million.
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Negotiating commercial leases: Turnkey construction advice
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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How the best coaches help others to succeed
Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementCoaching is the process of helping someone master a skill or the correct application of knowledge. Teaching focuses on learning something new; coaching focuses on mastering that something. Teaching ends when someone able to demonstrate that he or she can correctly perform the skill or apply the knowledge.
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10 ways to foster innovation through diversity leadership
Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIn this business era of speed, competition and globalization, innovation rules all. You never know where the next great product, process or profit builder will originate. Good diversity management and culturally intelligent leadership can make the difference between repeatedly hearing mediocre ideas from the same people, or mining the hidden genius in your organization for breakthrough ideas.
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Business cards: What you must know
Chris Landry Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe humble business card doesn't seem to be going out of fashion. It is still such an important part of business interactions and can really make or break a person's opinion of you.
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3 ways to keep your team healthy this winter
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWe are coming up on the most wonderful time of the year — for CVS, Kleenex and doctor's offices. According to the CDC, cold and flu season costs businesses billions of dollars and employees millions of sick days every year.
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How strong is your business ecosystem?
Brenda Crist Civil & GovernmentAchieving a consistently high proposal win rate requires a highly capable bid and proposal team, in addition to a strong business ecosystem consisting of contracts, finance, human resources, recruiting, technical and project management, communications, partners and suppliers. If one or more of the components of the ecosystem is weak, your bid can fail.
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Hiring for now vs. forever: Embrace the differences
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIt is not always the best thing to hire employees with the intention of keeping them forever. In the first part of this two-part series, we reviewed the valuable role for now employees can play at key points in an organization's life cycle. This article explains how to embrace the differences between for now and forever employees and tailor the hiring process to bring in the most appropriate candidate.
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#MeToo and preventing sexual harassment in the workplace
Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAccusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault against film producer Harvey Weinstein have recently exposed widespread behaviors in Hollywood towards many women and some men. As a result, Alyssa Milano adopted the now-hashtag #MeToo, taking from a campaign that started 20 years ago with activist Tarana Burke. But sexual harassment and sexual assault by men in power towards women is not a new phenomenon. According to a recent ABC News-Washington Post poll, 54 percent of all American women have been subjected to unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances.
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