With women accounting for close to half of the workforce, and with nearly two out of 10 of those women in management positions, it’s little surprise that the genders often get tied up in communication knots. Many of these tangled...
A good first impression is everything in the interview process. There are enormous amounts of research and data that say the first five minutes of an interview are what matter most. After these critical minutes, interviewers typically only look for...
Winning isn’t everything in life, but it’s absolutely critical if you’re an entrepreneur trying to get your start-up business off the ground. To make sure your business succeeds, check out these five lessons for startup success from entrepreneur Georgianna W....
Your boss runs the show in the workplace — assigning tasks, managing workloads and projects, troubleshooting, resolving conflict and keeping employees on track. It’s not easy to maintain a productive work environment and keep operations running smoothly. Your boss (just...
The shopping season is upon us! So what’s on your holiday wish list this year? While visions of sugarplums are dancing, I’ll bet tucked in that list is a new job, a promotion, or growth for your business. It’s also...
Is your company’s IT infrastructure prepared for an influx of millennial employees? Within the next decade, millennials are expected to dominate 75 percent of the workforce — and a growing number of employers are getting prepared for this massive shift...
The season of holiday parties is coming up, and with many professionally oriented events, it may be time to brush up on your networking skills. There are some strategies that can help you make connections, while still having fun. Here...
Every industry has a proverbial glass ceiling. The sustainability sector is no different. In April 2014, BusinessGreen.com published the results of a global “CR and Sustainability Salary Survey” produced by the green recruitment consultant Acre, management consultancy Carnstone, and marketing...
We’re texting all the time. Sending a text is more timely than sending an email, yet feels less intrusive than calling someone. Texting is replacing voice calls, especially among 18- to 24-year-olds, who send and receive nearly 4,000 text messages...
Health care can be an absolute headache for both businesses and employees. For HR managers who are trying to keep their employees happy and healthy, managing it can feel like an actual illness. As someone who’s spent the last 15...
From personalities that clash to deadlines that conflict, cross-departmental collaboration isn’t always easy. You might hear phrases like, “I just don’t get those people in marketing. Why is every request for financial data for their materials a last-minute rush?” Or...
Entrepreneurship is a great thing. It shapes the way businesspeople think, the relationships they forge, their daily disposition, and their overall approach to a work/life balance. For women entrepreneurs, it can be especially hard to juggle a family and personal...
When you’re considering a career change, a good place to start looking for job advice may be right at home. That’s what more than four in 10 senior executives polled in a new survey by Accountemps do: They said the...
When it came time for Shmulik Weller, CEO of SundaySky, to expand his company from Tel Aviv, Israel, and open a new U.S. headquarters in New York, he was challenged with maintaining the corporate culture as the business grew. Not...
Employers are constantly trying to find ways to foster productivity at work. Unfortunately, there are countless productivity killers in the workplace that can affect employees’ abilities to do their jobs. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,000...
Matching the right candidate to a job is a perennial and expensive challenge. That’s why excellence in hiring and retention is critical. And it’s especially true for military veterans. Because a veteran’s military skills are often easily translatable to a...
You see it all the time: midnight emails, dinnertime or weekend conference calls, projects finishing up in the wee hours of the morning. No one seems to work nine-to-five anymore — not you, not your employees. To explore this “work...
When a small business or startup begins to get bigger, what’s the first thing that happens to grow capacity and revenue? Hire more people. Hiring — especially the right people — is so important that Jason Whitman, senior vice president...