When Your Employee is Unaware of Unspoken Rules

When Your Employee is Unaware of Unspoken Rules

 

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How to Assess If You're Ready for a Global Role

How to Assess If You're Ready for a Global Role

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3 Tips for Quitting with Style

3 Tips for Quitting with Style

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3 Ways to Align Employee and Company Priorities

3 Ways to Align Employee and Company Priorities

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Beware of Best Practices

Beware of Best Practices

 

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How to Make Solving Problems Fun

How to Make Solving Problems Fun

 

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3 Tips for Demonstrating Humility

3 Tips for Demonstrating Humility

 

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3 Tips for Acing Your Interview

3 Tips for Acing Your Interview

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Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents

Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents

In today's economy, finding external talent to fill your company's needs isn't always possible. Nor is it always necessary. By paying attention and asking the right questions, you will likely discover many hidden talents among your existing employees: Turn a compliment into an interview. When congratulating an employee on a job well done, ask exactly what helped her succeed. By better understanding her process, you may uncover an unseen strength. Ask why employees prefer certain tasks or projects. Preferences can be a view into someone's talents. An employee might enjoy a project because it involves a product she cares about or because it gave her a chance to design surveys. Knowing which will possibly uncover talents. Inquire about dreams. Ask your employees what they would do if they had their career to do over again. Peoples' dreams often include an aspect of themselves they don't regularly share.

Today's Management Tip was adapted from "How to Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents" by Steven DeMaio.

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3 Ways to Transform Your Toxic Workplace

3 Ways to Transform Your Toxic Workplace

Heavy workloads, stress, a competitive atmosphere, a few bad seeds — whatever the cause, working in a toxic environment is unpleasant at best and excruciating at worst. Here are three ways you can begin to make positive change: 1. Start talking. Perform one-on-one, confidential interviews with employees. Give them the space to vent, and then engage them in solving the problems they've raised. 2. Be helpful, not forceful. Help employees think through the issues, but don't tell them what to do. Allow employees to take personal responsibility for making things better. 3. Don't just talk — change. Make a pledge to turn complaints into commitments. You gain employees' trust by showing them you are listening and making changes based on what you heard.

Today's Management Tip was adapted from "Does Your Office Need an Intervention?" by Cheryl Dolan and Faith Oliver.

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Four Ways to Know Whether You are Ready for Change

Four Ways to Know Whether You are Ready for Change

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Five Steps to Addressing the Leadership Talent Shortage

Five Steps to Addressing the Leadership Talent Shortage

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Union Employees

I assume that the union was created to protect all employee rights from injustice employers. In my opinion, the union goals have changed or you can say that the union employees have changed. When you ask any front desk manager about the biggest challenge he or she faces, they will say; dealing with union employees is the hardest part of the job. Union employees think it is ok to be lazy. Don’t get me wrong here. I am talking about small percentage of union employees. I worked with some union employees and they were great examples of the team player. If you compare any hotel in Europe to any hotel in the USA, you will see the difference. For example, Four Seasons in Europe is better than any Four Seasons in the USA. Best western in Europe is like a four stars hotel in the USA. The reason is that most hotels in Europe don’t have union employees. So employee in Europe goes above and beyond his/ her job to make the guest happy In the USA, we have job descriptions, and seniority. And these 2 items can make the job very hard specially if you have some lazy employees who like the word (working under protest)