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How To Manage a Hostile Team of Employees

September 9, 2020 Employee Performance and Coaching, Interviews, Hiring, and Layoffs

9 Tips for Supervising Frustrated Employees in Tough Times Managing a team is tough business. Meeting deadlines, tracking budgets, developing your staff and managing employee performance are just some of the things we are responsible for. Outside factors and difficult customers add to the stress, but the role becomes infinitely more difficult when the team you’re managing is noticeably unhappy.

Creating a Compliance Matrix for Your Project

May 21, 2020 Product Development, Project Management

A Tutorial to Ensure You Meet Your Customer’s Needs and Don’t Forget the Details You’re about to wrap up a big project. You are proud of the work you’ve done, and you believe you covered everything the customer asked. Afterall, you spent a lot of time on it and you’re pretty sure the customer will be happy with it. But

9 Challenges You Face When Hiring in an Emerging Economy

March 13, 2016 Business Strategy, Interviews, Hiring, and Layoffs, Product Development, Project Management

Tips for Hiring and Retaining Employees in Developing Nations Whether you’re hiring in India, recruiting in China, or opening an office in the Philippines, the obstacles are often the same. Because of their rapid growth, hiring and staffing a team in an emerging economy will always present unique challenges in terms of language, skills and retention. But if you equip

How to Deal with the Office Scrooge

January 15, 2015 Employee Relations, How To, Teams and Organizations, The Manager's Resource Handbook

How to Deal with Negative Employees in the Workplace His name was Mark. I was 34. Mark, my employee, was 54. It was not my first management rodeo, but I’m pretty sure he likened me more to one of his three teenagers at home than he saw me as his boss. Dealing with negative employees in the workplace is fairly common for managers, but Mark