7 Ways to Better Manage Remote Employees
Some may say it’s coming, others would say it’s already here. The US tech industry in 2015 had roughly 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs working from home. Along with tech moving in this direction, 83% of employees feel they do not need an office to be productive. On the other hand, many […]
4 Ways To Make A Millennial Employee Stay An Extra 6 months
They are nearly impossible to keep around- about a third of Millennials today switch jobs every thirteen months. Interesting enough though, in the same study, Pew Research found that Millennials have just as high turnover rate as their previous Gen Xers. However, unlike the Gen Xers working environment, quite a few new tips and tricks […]
A Question That Every Manager Should Ask
I remember like it was yesterday. In a small park in northern San Francisco, my boss and I walked around a park for our one on one meeting. As our first one on one meeting, I had no idea what to expect. The conversation started as a typically meeting would. What his expectations […]
The Biggest Mistake that Managers Make with 1v1 Meetings
Today is the big day, you sit across from your manager and brace yourself. As they sit down across from you, your sweaty palms clench your wrinkled pant legs. Hopefully, they didn’t notice the error in your AB Report, or that you were five minutes late to the Monday stand up meeting. Will they throw […]
How to Keep An Overachieving Employee
“I want to be the CEO in 2 years.” Those are the exact words I told a friend when I first joined corporate America. I started as a bottom level software engineer and I held the belief that it would only take two years to get the top of a billion dollar revenue company. Of […]
Why You Shouldn’t Use the Feedback Sandwich With Millennial Employees
In the media, ‘snowflake’ often refers to the term Millennial. But why? The term snowflake refers to someone’s inability to handle difficult situations and easily becoming offended. Major media consistently points out moments where Millennials get offended popularizing the description. With this stereotype, many managers struggle to provide constructive feedback to younger employees. As a […]
Millennial Management – Breaking Down Promotions into Milestones
Today, managers frequently run into the issue with gauging how fast to promote a Millennial employee. Often, managers would hear bizarre requests like a new hire wanting to be the CEO within two years. The difficult predicament arises on how to retain a Millennial so that they feel that they are moving in their career, […]
7 Ways to Make Sure People Show Up On Time
You hate it, I hate it, everyone hates it, but it still happens. People show up late to meetings no matter how many reminders they receive. The corporate workplace is notoriously known to have people not respect meeting times while other environments like the military, are extremely consistent. Unfortunately, corporate managers cannot yell, scream and […]
A System to Improve An Underperforming Millennial Employee
One of the largest characterizations associated with the Millennial stereotype is laziness. Whether or not this is true, there are valid cases where younger employees fall behind in performance. In those particular cases, how do you address their lacking performance and create a system to improve their workplace contribution? Improving employee performance is a multi-set […]
4 Major Shifts in Management You Need to Watch For
As Warren Bennis, the American scholar stated ‘success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.’ As the world changes, so does the world of management and the methods on how to effectively deploy people to solve complex problems. Major shifts in the world through technology and industrial psychology research are significant […]