By Anne Caldwell
With the holidays approaching, many business owners decide to acknowledge employees with a party of sorts, as a gesture of appreciation and an opportunity to socialize together. What liability might a business owner face by sponsoring an event of this sort?
There are several aspects that need to be considered. From the [...]
If you and your spouse or partner are in business together, you gotta take time to read Hal Alpiar’s blog on how to make the relationship work. And how not to. Example:
Bedtime in the bedroom is simply not the right time or the right place to talk about sales, distribution, taxes, accounts payable, collections, irate [...]
“As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff,” says the New York Times, “and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover.”
Go check out The Voice of San Diego. Some columnists are saying it could be [...]
Dozens of volunteers (including me) joined together at Seth Godin’s “Triiibes” website, and collaborated on an e book made up of questions and answers members put before the group.
This is our first collaboration, and, aside from the usual bumps in such a project, we got to the heart of the issue and created a [...]
Goodyear’s Goodwill store, to open Friday, October 24, is truly looking out for the community. In addition to bargain merchandise (on a 26,000 sq ft floor), it will offer a coffee bar and career center.
Housing the Southwest Valley’s first career center, it’s open to anyone needing job-hunting help. This includes free computers with Internet access, [...]
Ann Handley, one of my heroes, just blogged about something significant. To her. And to many others.
A week or so after she visited a dermatologist, she “got a flimsy white postcard in the mail from the doctor’s office. On it were three pre-printed options with open boxes next to them, and one was checked off: [...]
By Guest Columnist Anne Caldwell
President, Outsourcing Solutions
How to Avoid Employee Burnout
Helping employees keep their work fresh is another way to avoid burnout. Meeting with staff on a quarterly basis and giving them the opportunity to trade some functions not only keeps them from being bored, it creates a cross- trained pool that can be useful [...]
