With office buildings closed across America and work piling up, the need for experienced remote workers is high. If you are used to perusing resumes, then scheduling face-to-face interviews, hooking complete unknowns from a digital pond might feel like casting blind. So how do you go about sourcing and hiring top-notch remote workers – remotely? Start with good bait Hopefully, your company …
How to Manage Remote Employees in The New Norm
For some, working away from the office is a new and disorientating phenomenon. Thrust suddenly into a home work environment can seem as distracting as toiling in front of a giant movie screen looping Tiger King all day! Between kids fighting, dog walking, isolation, and worries about the shutdown, your employees may find it all hard to manage. Last month’s blog, Munchkin Survival …
Three Financial Steps That Workers and Small Business Owners Should Take Now to Light the Way Forward
A quote by Richard C. Morais, author of The Hundred-Foot Journey, perfectly sums up the grit and resilience required in these uncertain times of COVID-19: “There are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely …
Hitting the Reset Button: Changes in Strategy with your Biggest Asset – People!
As governments figure out how to get people safely back to work, now is the perfect time for idled business owners to hit the reset button and begin considering their re-start strategies! Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your pre-and post-COVID workforce will help you discover how changes in strategy and staffing could result in a leaner, more adaptable organization. Following are …
Munchkin Survival Guide: Tips to Get Work Done at Home
Humor is magical and can lighten even the toughest times.  Like trying to work at home with bickering kids!  When one poster in a community forum asked, “For those working from home, tell me something your kid(s) did today, but refer to them as co-workers,” she got some hilarious responses: “My co-workers fought over a Lego box.  Then they chased each other around …