Staffing

Are Managers Going To Be Ready For Gen Z Workers?

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The next generation of workers are already battle scarred

Ok manager, how is managing those millennials working out for you? I hope that you’ve come up with ways to make peace with them because it is just about time for the next batch of workers to show up on your doorstep: Generation Z. Do you have any manager training for dealing with this? This … Read more

Managers Struggle To Recruit The Right Workers

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In order to build the best team, you need to recruit the best workers

In order to manage the best team, you have to have the best team. What this means is that one of your responsibilities as a manager is to use your manager skills to recruit the best team possible. During times when the job market is tight, this can be a real challenge. Challenges In Recruiting … Read more

What Managers Can Do To Make Employees Stick Around

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Employees will stay if you can create positive experiences

So here’s some bad news for managers: right now employee turnover (employees who leave) is currently at an all-time high. What this means for you is that your team is at risk. If you don’t find a way to use your manager skills to keep the members of your team happy and engaged in their … Read more

How Managers Can Make Sure That New Employees Don’t Quit

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Once you’ve got ‘em, you’d like to be able to keep ‘em

Oh my goodness – can you believe just how hard it is to find the right person to join your team? I mean think about it: we craft the perfect job description, wade through a pile of resumes, use our manager skills to interview far too many people by phone, invite a few in to … Read more

What Are The Warning Signs Of A Bad Employee?

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As a manager, you are responsible for a team of professions. You’d like to think that each of the members of your team would always be doing everything that they can to move the team forward and to make the company be more successful. However, it turns out that at times you may use your … Read more

What Makes Someone A Good Fit For Your Team: Chemistry

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As IT managers, it is our responsibility to use our IT manager skills to build the best team that we possibly can. We’re going to be asking a lot from our team in terms of being able to deliver complex projects quickly and efficiently. This means that the people we invite to become members of … Read more

IT Managers Need To Know What Their Team Members Really Want

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As IT managers, one of the many challenges that we face on a daily basis is using our IT manager skills to keep our team together. I don’t care how hip and cool your company may be, it’s always a challenge trying to both find and then keep the best workers who make up your … Read more

Can Mobile Video Games Help IT Managers To Find The Right Employees?

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Any time that we have an opening on our team, it becomes the responsibility of the IT manager to use our IT manager skills to evaluate candidates and pick the right one. However, it turns out that this can be much harder than it looks. Many candidates look fine during the interview process but turn … Read more

Why IT Managers Should Stop Putting Employees In Boxes

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As an IT manager, you by necessity meet a lot of people. Many of these people are on your team and so it’s important that you use your IT manager skills to remember who they are. Just because it’s important does not make this any easier to do. We have all developed a coping mechanism … Read more