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Working as a human resource manager today is no easy feat. Between managing people processes, recruitment efforts, and staying up to date on employment laws, many HR leaders feel stretched too thin. Before long, tasks start to accumulate, and the HR manager is required to work long hours to get caught up. How can an HR manager get a break? 

For those of you that haven’t heard already, May is Mental Health Awareness Month.  Whether it’s ourselves or someone we know, most of us will be touched by mental illness in some way during our life time.  Despite the positive direction that the publics perception of mental health is heading, there’s a stigma that still remains.  That stigma can cause individuals to feel ashamed for something that is out of their control.  Worst of all, it may prevent those individuals fr

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so it’s a great time to open up the dialogue with your employees about this once taboo topic.

Every year in May, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) promotes mental and physical well-being with “Mental Health Awareness Month”. It’s an opportune time for people to evaluate where they are in terms of their own lives, and seek help if they need it. It’s also a sound reminder that the person that sits at the desk across from you at work could be dealing with some pretty serious mental illness problems in secret.

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Most people assume PEO services are for large companies only. In reality, many small to medium-sized companies find extreme benefits in working with a PEO. According to NAPEO “small businesses that use PEOs grow seven to nine percent faster, have 10 to 14 percent lower employee turnover, and are 50 percent less likely to go out of business."

The people who stare at their laptops or phones during my workshops or presentations undoubtedly think they can effectively listen to me and use technology at the same time. After all, they’ve probably been told that multitasking is not only possible - it’s necessary.

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." This African proverb neatly explains why you should get your employees to work as a team: individuals can go fast, but a team can go far.

How do you do it? People who have been there, done that, and wrote a book about it said you need to have a variety of things in place to make it happen.

“You can have everything you want if you will help other people get what they want,” said motivational speaker Zig Ziglar. If you’re in business, you want customers. What do your customers want? Good customer service. In fact, according to a Customer Experience Report by RightNow, 86 percent of consumers surveyed said they stopped doing business with a company because of receiving bad service. I know I have.

Here are four elements to providing good customer service:

Cinco de Mayo is coming up and while many may think it's Mexican Independence day it's actually not.