Recent Articles in Human Resources

Five Practical Tips To Realizing Work/Life Balance
Jan 2, 2012

If you’re feeling stressed and tired you haven’t achieved the primary intent of work/life balance, which is to reduce stress.   All you have done is balanced the degree of stress you have in your work life with the stress you have in your non-work life.  But at least the stress is balanced...  To realize a practical work/life balance, consider the following tips:

How Can You Motivate Your Employees to Be More Productive?
Jan 1, 2012

Now, more than ever, organizations are looking for ways to motivate their employees to be more productive, the volatility of the economy is forcing organizations in every industry to look for ways to do more with less. The question is: What will motivate your employees?  Most managers would instantly respond, “Money.” They couldn’t be more wrong. While we all want to be paid a decent wage for our work, money will not motivate us to improve our performance or productivity. What will? Read on to learn the answers.

December Loss Prevention & Risk Management Newsletter: Preventing Hotel Housekeeper Injuries
Dec 29, 2011

Lawsuit Serves Up Lessons: Employee Defection And Trade Secrets At Issue.
Dec 16, 2011

A decision issued this summer by a federal district court in New York provides important lessons for professionals in the food services and restaurant industry regarding employee defection and trade secrets issues.

6 Steps to a More Marketable LinkedIn Profile
Dec 16, 2011

 

Overall, LinkedIn may be the best social media platform for entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals. Unfortunately, your LinkedIn profile may not be helping you to create those connections if somewhere along the line you started treating it more like a resume. It's time to fix that.

  

PowerPoint Presentations That Get Results
Dec 15, 2011

The Details do Matter: 

Ten simple tools help you make PowerPoint slides that get results.

Ways to Reduce Expenses and Streamline Your Hotel's Housekeeping and Laundry Departments
Dec 13, 2011

Amy Bair, Hospitalityeducators.com Guest Columnist offers perspectives on Houskeeping and Laundry Departments from the Business Process Approach

Eye on Awareness—Hotel Security and Anti-terrorism Training™
Dec 12, 2011

Eye on Awareness—Hotel Security and Anti-terrorism Training™ Intro

Rethinking Small Business Saturday - Year end 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition
Dec 11, 2011

This is about supporting your local, home town operated and owned businesses that have their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.    Now many local businesses are franchises of national brands, but locally owned and operated.  Profits remain  in your community, as do most of the jobs and tax revenue.

CEO Outlook 2012
Dec 10, 2011

If fear and loathing were any more palpable, American CEOs would be suffocating in their own apprehensions right now.

It’s true that after two years of the Great Recession and another two years of one of the weakest “recoveries” in U.S. economic history, some companies have gotten healthier, and many corporations continue to sit on hordes of cash. However, in industry after industry, at companies both public and privately held—regardless of size, there is one message emanating from CEOs as they look nervously toward 2012: They are basically on hold until something changes. The most important thing that must change, they say almost unanimously, is the awful economic influence of Washington, D.C. And while some fault both political parties, the balance of blame tilts toward the Obama administration.

Human Resources - Associate Exit Survey
Dec 3, 2011

A one page survey that encourages hotel management to understand the primary reasons why associates leave.

Growing Talent Does Not Happen Without Focused Effort in Hospitality
Dec 2, 2011

Growing Talent Does Not Happen Without Focused Effort (Part 2 of Meeting the Need for Talent) As the economy in much of the world is beginning to show more optimistic results in hospitality and other industries, the need to identify, hire, train, and retain quality staff has resurfaced as a major issue. Part 1 of Meeting the Need for Talent included A Baker's Dozen of Questions that was created to provide feedback to reader requests for specific ideas on this topic. Part 2 - Growing Talent Does Not Happen Without Focused Effort includes observations from several management company executives (JHM Hotels, Ayres Hotels, 20/20 Hospitality, Ivy Inns) who kindly agreed to share some of their thoughts and some of their approaches in developing and retaining talent.