Team Building in Troubled Times

When business conditions are tough, you need your employees to unite to develop strategies that give your firm a competitive edge. Yet if people are anxious about their job security, they are more likely to adopt an independent, preservation mind-set. It can take extra time and effort to overcome this roadblock with your staff and…

A Manager’s Guide to Surviving Layoffs

In this economy it is the lucky few managers who do not have to inform colleagues that their services are no longer needed. Most managers are having to layoff people they know and like; people, who through no fault of their own, must be set adrift on a very uncertain economic sea. This takes its…