Tips for Growing Your Business Through Tough Times

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By: Ravinia Jaide, Guest Blogger Starting a business is never easy, but keeping it running is even harder. With economic downturns being part and parcel of the current state of the world, small business owners need to make sure they’re prepared for the worst. Recessions often hit small businesses the hardest, and many don’t make…

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Illuminate Business Summit Session on EQ Recap

By: Sandy Moran, HR Business Partner   In the recent month, I attended the Illuminate Business Summit. A national virtual conference that recognized several regions awards symposiums concurrently with rich content spanning a week.  I wanted to recap some relevant takeaways from the session on Leading Powerfully Through Emotional Intelligence. This was presented by Lauren Weinstein…

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Culture Shock!

“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”             ~Bo Olson, worked in books marketing at Amazon   After reading about Amazon’s workplace habits, you will go into culture shock. Would you want to work for an organization where nearly every person cried at their desk? According to Olson, a former…

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HRBOOST® Announces BoostU

GIVE YOUR LEADERSHIP A BOOST: INTRODUCING BoostU AND OUR NEWLeadership Boost Program!   HRBOOST® is excited to announce our NEW FIVE PART COURSEspecifically developed for NEW LEADERS AND MANAGERS!   It’s the small business quandary. As your business grows you need to place people in management decisions. You want to promote from within. After all, these are the people who…

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HR is a HUB! The Conduit to Success.

Every company is started with a vision. There is always a principal owner or executive who was inspired by an idea, a spark of intuition! And if they are blessed, they in turn evolve that idea into inspiration which evolves into a real life business. And once the business becomes a reality, that is when…

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Truly, Would You Want to Work for You? by Jacob The Intern

It is no secret that the key to running a successful business is to maximize the utility of the workforce. A manager can have planned everything perfectly, have an excellent and innovative idea and hired a talented staff to assist in carrying out all the ideas and plans the manager has put together. But unless…

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Trust: The Backbone of Organizational Success, by Jacob the Intern

When considering the factors that are directly related to the success of a business, the words that quickly come to mind are innovation, creativity, hard work and communication. But none of those aims can be reached without the most important aspect in a business, a concept that is often neglected and ignored: trust. Every business…

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Natural Disaster near or far extends to the workplace!

With the events of recent years, natural and not so natural disasters have brought concern over many of us in the workplace. Today is no exception. From the employee who has property or perhaps even friends or family an event like what is happening in Japan today can bring about quite an impact on productivity.…

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