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Stressed Out
The pressures of work and life can boil over. Make sure you and your employees have ways to combat stress before it’s too late.
Retirement: What Plan Is Best?
If you have a profitable business, a qualified retirement plan is a great way to reward yourself, and key employees, for that success. Several scenarios will help you choose the right plan for you and your company.
Building High-Performing Teams
There is a book called “First, Break All the Rules,” written several years ago by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. The book interviews several people with the premise of identifying charact...
Celebrating Success
There’s nothing less motivating than achieving a goal and no one seems to care. Whether it is a personal goal or a business goal, recognition for a job well done is crucial to ensure that a work-hard attitude c...
The Power Of Learning
Business owners must continue learning or risk dragging their companies into mediocrity.
Disaster Planning
Having a business continuity plan in place is a must for contractors.
Can Big Brother Watch?
Adopting workplace privacy policies is a prudent business practice. Just make sure employees are aware of the policies.
Culture Drives Strategy
As a company leader, your ultimate responsibility is to become the “chief culture officer.” After all, a strong company culture will lead your business to success.
How To Hire Co-Workers
Think of the hiring process as a sales presentation — putting your best foot forward will net results.
The Craft Of Communication
I once had a boss bite my head off in front of all of my co-workers. The “crime” I committed turned out to be her mistake and she later sulked into my office to offer a private apology to a very p...
Health Basics 101
The truth in medicine is always changing — education will enable you to make sound medical choices.
Managing Sales Performance
Setting a goal and creating a plan for achieving it and not reviewing performance regularly is like setting out for a road trip without ever looking at the route you mapped out. Maybe you’ll get there — maybe you won’t.
Safety For All
Several resources can help contractors communicate important information to Hispanic employees.
Seven Must-Have Traits For Your Next Sales Hire
You’ve heard the phrase, “People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy.” It’s true, and people buy from salespeople they like and grow to trust. This is the difference between the varying degrees of...
Abundant Opportunities
The country’s growing Hispanic population can provide enthusiastic, skilled employees if companies properly address challenges.
Training and Certification for IAQ
Programs adhere to accreditation standards that are rigorous and require compliance in three key areas: education, independence, and experience.
Tops in Training
The award-winning College of HVACR at Ferris State University is doing its part to provide highly skilled, enthusiastic
Spreading Cheer Without Fear
Holiday parties can be a great way to show a hard-working staff your appreciation and have some fun after a year of hard work. They also can leadto injury, lawsuits, and insults if not planned properly. Here are some tipsand advice to make company parties...
GPS Comes of Age
New, cheaper global positioning systems enable hvacr contractors to save time, money, and fuel.
Rewards That Work
To successfully motivate co-workers (which is the term I used for anyone who worked at my companies)—to get them to take actions that you want and need them to take in order to improve customer service, increase ...
Tips For Serving Alcohol Responsibly
Nothing can be more fun, or put a business more at risk, than a good holiday party. Everyone knows or has heard of someone who has embarrassed himself or herself beyond belief after having a few too many drinks with co-workers. Beyond emba...
Independent Contractor or Employee?
Has anyone ever told you that you can avoid having to pay payroll taxes by making your workers independent contractors instead of employees? Like most advice that is too good to be true, this isn’t quite true. While it is true that independent contract...
The Art of Firing
It’s one thing to lay off people, but quite another to fire someone. In a sense, a layoff is easier because it usually happens in bad times, and so doesn’t single a person out. A firing, by contrast, can occur in good times as well as bad, a...
The Art of Recruiting
Recruiting doesn’t begin and end with the hiring process, it remains one of the most important aspects of any hiring manager’s job.
Welcome to our 25th Anniversary Celebration!
And thanks for coming to the party. We’ve got a lot of new and exciting things planned to take us through the next 25 years. And I’d like to share some of them with you. As you look through yo...
