Business Growth Tip: Invest In Your Employees
We get it. There’s always a pile of work to be done at your company, and you’re only just managing to run things with the limited resources at your disposal. Surely, you can’t fund your employees’ skills acquisiton, or afford to let them off a while for training programs. Or can you? But consider what […]
Why “The Customer Is Always Right” Is A Myth
When American retail magnate Harry Selfridge came up with the famous line “the customer is always right” in 1909, he was probably doing so in order to encourage a dismantling of the customer service approach that predominated at that time. Afterall, it was the era in which “let the customer beware” was a more commonplace […]
How to Lead Your Boss
One of the best storytellers in our present day is the Nigerian employee. Just start off a conversation about the weather and you might be swept away by the dam of tales that will come gushing out. Of course the lead character and chief antagonist is none other than ‘MY BOSS’. It makes me wonder, […]
How to Get the Best Out of Your Staff
There seems to be a general complaint about employees in Nigeria. Be it domestic or corporate, employers say hiring committed or even honest people is almost a mirage nowadays. If this is true, then it wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that we are officially in trouble! But before we get out our cans of “staffticides”, […]
Hire or Get Hired with Stutern.com
Stutern is a trending online platform that connects interns with their potential employers. According to Taiwo Ayanleye the platform’s co-founder, “Stutern is an outsourcing tool that connects Nigeria’s most innovative employers with the top young talents in their area.” Stutern is aimed at helping individuals who want to develop in a particular field or skill to gain access […]
5 Ideas to Keep Employees Productive
Nothing kills creativity and innovative ideas more than the monotonous company culture some businesses have and I think this stems from the fact that in our part of the world, we prioritize and spend more on the products and services we sell over our employees. Our indifference to our employees is obvious in the way […]
Tech Tuesday: PushCV Launches New Text2Hire
PushCV has recently launched a new mobile product, Text2Hire, that provides potential hires on-demand for employers. The company aims to replace the traditional method of posting vacancies on websites. Instead, employers text [HIRE] [SPACE] [THE VACANCY TITLE] to 30812 e.g. HIRE CIVIL ENGINEER to 30812. Details of pre-screened candidates that match the vacancy request are then […]
Motivational Monday: 7 Ways to Boost Your Employees’ Morale
If you are an employer of labour, having happy employees means productivity, but unhappy employees can be detrimental to your business and having them around might result in serious downward turn of productivity. While I don’t think you can make everyone happy at all times, I believe keeping your employees’ morale high is one […]
4 Steps to Finding A Job On LinkedIn
Everyone knows that LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals and job seekers, but it is still ignored by majority of job seekers. Increasing your chances of getting a job using a site like LinkedIn is fairly easy; get a profile, fill it out, indicate you are looking for employment, join relevant groups […]
Employee Retention Strategies: How to Keep Your Best People From Leaving
By Paul Eze Getting top quality employees can be tough but your ability to retain those few very talented people in times of fierce competition is what will give you an edge over your contenders in the market. Reasons You May Lose Your Best People Has one of your key staff members recently dropped the […]
Importance of Teamwork on the Job
By Kobe Eru Godwin Teamwork, when properly channelled, is an invaluable strategy in any organisation. It is often said that the word TEAM means Together Everybody Achieves More and those words couldn’t be any truer. The idea of teamwork basically refers to the cooperative effort put in by members of a partnership, business or company […]