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Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits

The Small Business Blog

Make certain that you have strong, unconfusing policies on employment. A good recordkeeping policy is essential. A good record-keeping policy is essential. These must be well communicated to employees and strictly enforced. Stay within legal guidelines regarding employment. Select employees carefully during the hiring process.

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Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind

Ian's Messy Desk

The encoding stage refers to the process of putting information into memory. The storage stage refers to retention or maintaining information in memory. The retrieval stage refers to recovering information from memory. Think you can successfully study the details of a report while talking on the phone and reading your horoscope?

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Using Email Effectively

Ian's Messy Desk

For most organizations, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication, both formal and informal. The signature automatically displays at the end of every message and typically contains contact information such as your full name, department, web page, and phone/fax numbers. Thanks for visiting!

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Will Small Businesses Drop Employee Health Coverage in 2014?

Small Business Labs

  The main reason we don't know what's going to happen with small businesses is we don't have enough information on what the state-run insurance exchanges are going to offer.    The lack of information is, in our opinion, the key reason why the various studies are coming up with such different results. 

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

According to the Association for Psychological Science (2006), the unconscious transmission of actions or emotions from one individual to another is possible. Bad bosses like to withhold information from their employees or expect their employees to be mind readers and already know what they’re supposed to know. Contact Ms.

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Increase Productivity

Ian's Messy Desk

It is a continuous process, often informal, and an important factor in lifelong learning. zachgraeve.com) Related Posts: Bits and Pieces – June 8 Bits and Pieces – August 24 links for 2006-08-16 Productivity Did you enjoy this post? These benchmarks should be established on small scale to avoid being overwhelming.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.