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  • Best practices for landscaping RFPs

    Kevin Smith Facilities & Grounds

    As portfolios continue to expand and the year-round needs of a company's landscaping are addressed, best practices for landscaping requests for proposal become even more important for your business. Sourcing and selecting one or more partners to deliver your landscaping services is a critical initiative, and one that needs to be mapped out. Here we will examine some of the steps to ensure a successful sourcing initiative.

  • How ethical is your HR department?

    Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Human resources serves as the liaison between management and staff. It helps with critical administrative and tactical tasks like benefits and payroll. Recruiting, retention, employee development and compensation can fall within the HR office. In some companies, HR can also be a key player in the strategic direction the organization takes. It is clear that HR can be an important part of the culture of the organization. But in many organizations, HR is an afterthought.

  • Shadow boxing: A nontoxic resistance to eliminate

    Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    When you encounter a challenge, do you find yourself angry and out of sorts? If so, you are "shadow boxing" with a condition over which you have little-to-no control. When shadow boxing, you are expending energy against an object that is not real or immediately present. Your blows are blasting air modules that offer no resistance. Initially, "nontoxic resistance" is harmless. But continuing to battle this nontoxic state over time with no management or resolve will wear you down.

  • The fate of Google+ for business marketing

    Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

    Google+ has often been the least favored and most neglected tool for social media marketers. Started in 2011, this was Google’s chance to create a thriving social network. However, while Google+ was able to quickly gain users, it was not able to truly engage them. The time spent on Google+ was minimal. Come 2013, Google began requiring users to sign up for Google+ to use Google products like YouTube and Gmail. As of now, that’s no longer true.

  • The NLRB’s attack on confidentiality continues

    D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Many employers believe they have the absolute right to prohibit their workers from disclosing "confidential" information to co-workers and third parties. They are dead wrong. The National Labor Relations Board has consistently restricted employer rights in this area, and some recent decisions and guidelines from the current board have accelerated the erosion of these employer rights. This article outlines seven things that, unbeknownst to many employers, cannot be prohibited without violating employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

  • 7 habits for accountability at all levels within an organization

    Betty Boyd Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    ​Why is accountability lacking in today's organizations? Is it often due to a lack of engagement, culture or trust. These and other issues can affect accountability at all levels within an organization. In his book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey suggests moving through the habits.

  • 5 warnings no one ever tells commercial tenants

    Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

    Dealing with landlords and their representatives can be challenging at any time, but when you're a novice or emotionally or financially attached to the deal — as many tenants understandably are — the entire leasing process becomes much more difficult. You may well have some preconceived notions about commercial leasing. However, you should be mindful of numerous issues.

  • Content learners vs. test preppers: Which type is best?

    Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    ​It seems there are two types of people when it comes to professional certifications: those who work hard and via experience, education and studying pass the certifying exam, and those who simply figure out how to take the test. If they both pass, do you care which type of employee works for you?

  • Tips for conducting business across continents

    Benoit Gruber Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    If you're looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has its own challenges, like keeping up with all of your departments — human resources, sales, marketing and the like. Now, think about doing that, but all over the world where there are different time zones, cultures and expectations.

  • Sitting may be killing us, but standing all day is just as bad

    Cait Harrison Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    We know sitting all day in an office chair is killing us, and there's no shortage of stories in the news telling us so. And while you should limit sitting, standing for long periods isn't that much better, according to a new study. The research, published in Human Factors, the Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, found that workers who stood all day experienced significant muscle fatigue, regardless of age and gender.



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