Add You - Business

The Art of Career Planning
Career planning is an exercise that is well worth the time invested in it because it sets you going on the path that leads to where you would like to go. This exercise provides you with a lot of clarity regarding your career objectiv

activated, you need to continue moving forward with it until either the employee is now performing as expected (the ideal outcome) or the decision has been made to terminate employment of this individual. There are no in-betweens.

If your supervision is sporadic, then yo

Little White Lies - Are they Worth the Risk?
There are many circumstances in which it would be easy to enlist the aid of 'white lies' in the era we live in today. 'The check is in the mail' when in actuality it won't be mailed until tomorrow. 'She/he is in a meeting - out to

When you have started any performance improvement plan with an employee, it is essential that you are doing your follow-up work in a timely manner.

Once you have given your employee a memo or a probation letter with corrective actions that are needed and the corresponding deadlines, you need to mark your own calendar. When deadlines have been given, you need to be prepared to meet with the employee on each of those deadline dates to find out whether or not the corrective action has been taken and is up to your expectations. You must also document each follow-up meeting.

When you have problems with an employee, you are putting things off and making the situation worse if you're not meeting weekly to discuss the issues' current status. Even if the deadlines are not weekly, you want to keep an eye on the situation.

When a supervisor comes to me and says there have been continuing issues for months, as an HR person, I going to ask for specifics. I would not be happy to discover that a memo was given to the employee two months ago and nothing had been done since.

Once the plan is activated, you need to continue moving forward with it until either the employee is now performing as expected (the ideal outcome) or the decision has been made to terminate employment of this individual. There are no in-betweens.

If your supervision is sporadic, then you

Surviving Change
Who could have predicted the changes coming our way in 2006? The changes that began in 2006 are predicted to continue in 2007. So, we thought we would provide a 2007 Survival Kit to enhance your life and your career! Check out ou

deadlines, you need to mark your own calendar. When deadlines have been given, you need to be prepared to meet with the employee on each of those deadline dates to find out whether or not the corrective action has been taken and is up to your expectations. You must also document each follow-up meeting.

If your supervision is sporadic, then yo

Factual Employment Screening Part 1
We have all heard in recent years that the need for a substantive policy of conducting pre-and post-employment background checks exists in more than just defense contractor and fiduciary-based enterprises. Today, with the overwhelmin

t each follow-up meeting.

If your supervision is sporadic, then yo

Does Your Customer Talk Back To You?
What is your customer saying about you? Do you really know? Does your customer really know who you are?If you don't know what your customer thinks about you, your business, your product and your services, then you might as wel

/p>

If your supervision is sporadic, then yo

Do's And Don't Of Career Change
A career change can be riddled with mistakes and ambiguity for many people, even those in mid-career. This, as a consequence, relegates them to where they are despite additions to their job and personal skill sets and the larger mark

If your supervision is sporadic, then you may have to start the performance improvement process over again because too much time has elapsed between your request for correction action and your follow-up. You need to be consistent with your follow-up for it to be effective. This is why good communication with your employees is so important. If you can eliminate problems early on, you'll save yourself a lot of time overall.

This is the 5th of 7 articles in the Managing Employee Performance Series.

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.addyou.info/article/20637/addyou-Tracking-an-Employees-Success-or-Failure.html">Tracking an Employee's Success or Failure</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.addyou.info/article/20637/addyou-Tracking-an-Employees-Success-or-Failure.html]Tracking an Employee's Success or Failure[/url]

As the selection process starts to draw to a close it's time to impress the hiring team. A large part of a successful interview is avoiding potential pitfalls that can undermine your ability to impress the hiring team.

I called Domino’s Pizza the other night as I was watching the USC-Notre Dame game on the tube. Expecting to get exactly what I had purchased twice during the past three weeks, I quickly dialed the phone and recited my order: “I’ll have the three medium pizzas with unlimited ingredients. Here’s how I’d like them. Two with triple mushrooms, and one with double pepperoni, and a single serving of mushrooms, onion, and beef, please.” “We can’t do that,” the voice responded flatly. “Why, not?” I shot back. “What’s the problem?” “You can’t double one ingredient. They have to be different ingredients,” he claimed. “You must be in MANAGEMENT, am I right?” I challenged, knowing only a dumb bureaucrat could enforce such a senseless rule, recalls top speaker, international consultant, and popular commentator on radio and TV.

Are your products or services geared towards only one target market? You can increase sales and profits by increasing your target markets. Below are some creative ways to increase your target markets by using your existing products and services you're selling right now.

Tags

Links

Add You - Tracking an Employee's Success or Failure

Related Articles: