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Grow Your Business: Which Strategy Will Boost Your Mid-Sized Business?
You might have hit a plateau in your business’s growth. How can you get past it and keep growing? By developing a strategy for growth.
The Client Experience: Healing a Broken Relationship
From time to time, your relationship with a client might go south. Now you need to repair that relationship… but how?
Help Your Workers Spring Ahead with COATS
It’s that time of year again. No, not St. Patrick’s Day; that’s next week.
New Year’s Business Resolutions for Staffing: Employee and Candidate Manuals
You might have thought that 2011 was an action-packed year in employment law, but if January is any indication of the year to come, 2012 is going to knock all our socks off (and then file an injunction ordering us to put them back on again).
New Year’s Resolutions for Staffing: Metrics That Matter
What are the metrics every business needs to know, and what are the ones unique to staffing?
Build Stronger Working Relationships with Trust
In staffing, we rely on businesses to trust us with one of the most important strategic elements of their business: hiring. And candidates are trusting us with one of the most important elements of their lives.
Make Your Holiday Party Easy on Everyone (Including Your Accountant)
Holiday parties are a great idea: they can improve morale, enhance employee engagement, encourage bonding among employees and reward hard work. But they can be expensive and get out of hand pretty easily.
Managing Change: The Other 2 Cs
Today, we look at the other two Cs of change management, which come into play during the change process: Consistency and Convincing.
Managing Change: The First 2 Cs
This is the first half of a two-part series we’re doing on change in the workplace. Sustainable change requires what we call the 4 Cs…
Reducing Risk: Investigate Internally to Avoid Lawsuits
If an unfortunate event happens during the course of business, you could be at risk for a lawsuit, especially if you don’t investigate claims yourself.
How To Make Your Business Unsuccessful and Miserable
If you’ve wondered how best to hamstring your employees, alienate your strongest players and otherwise guarantee the failure of your business, organizational psychologist and consultant Ben Dattner believes he’s found the secret: create a culture of blame.
4 Steps to Make Networking Work
It’s one of the truisms of business that we all need to network, regardless of whether or not we’re looking for clients. We all know we need to do it, but very few of us actually do. How can you break the mold and actually accomplish that crucial, but occasionally daunting task of networking?
3 Steps to the Best Reputation in the Staffing Industry
No matter how you differentiate, your business’s reputation can make the difference between competing on differentiation and price and having to compete on price alone.
Feature Focus: Management Business Advisor (MBA)
Sometimes you need a snapshot, a general overview of the most important aspects of your business’s performance. That’s why COATS has the Management Business Advisor.
Celebrate the Benefits You Offer
National Employee Benefits Day is next Monday, April 4, and the theme this year is “communicating your benefits plan to your employees.” For staffing companies, this holiday offers two sets of opportunities for awesomeness.
Make Your Staffing Business’s Own Luck
St. Patrick’s Day is a good day to ponder the importance of luck in your staffing business’s success, including the possibility that you can determine your own luck.
Keeping Your In-House Employees Informed on Health Care Reform
You’re probably feeling a little overwhelmed, confused and anxious about health care reform. We promise you, your in-house employees feel the same way, only more so.
Help Your People, Help Your Profits: Fighting Stress at Work
Stress isn’t just damaging to your employees’ health, it’s damaging to your bottom line. Engaging your employees can result in better work, fewer missed days and sick costs and a healthier company in every sense of the word.
Feature Focus: Know Where You Stand with COATS Management Reports
Every business owner or manager needs to take a step back from time to time and see how the business has been functioning over time. Fortunately, COATS users don’t even have to step out of COATS to step back and get that view.
