Posts Tagged ‘employees’

How to Fire Someone

By trade and training I am a writer and editor. I never had any education in managing people until I received the best kind: being thrust into the middle of it and being forced to learn without any preformed conceptions from some old tradition of management that academics espouse. I'm not belittling education. It would have been helpful, and trained managers are no doubt much better than me… Continue reading

March 27 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: employees, firing, layoffs, Management, staff | 10 comments»

How to Grow Healthy Employees

Penelope Trunk from Yahoo! Finance gives great advice as to how managers should treat their employees. The advice is from the perspective of management, and it is focused on making employees, "...feel good about themselves and what they're doing." The advice is very practical for anyone in a management or supervisory role: Manage people first, do your own work second. Your job is to make sure the people on your… Continue reading

March 2 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: advice, career, employees, Management | 4 comments»