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“Leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot or will not address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion, you should not be in a leadership role.” – Mike Myatt, Forbes Magazine Workplace conflict is a certainty. People who spend five days a week, eight hours a day together will eventually find […]

This age group brings a significant and important set of abilities to the workplace. In fact, they have been called “native technologists”. Any company that hopes to thrive must adapt and understand the values of millennials.

Anyone who has ever had to fire someone can tell you that it’s one of the hardest things you will ever do, inside and outside the work environment. Knowing that the employee could react badly, with either anger or devastation, causes major trepidation. And also, recognizing the effect this termination will have on innocent people, […]

Millennials are generally thought to be people born between 1980 and 2000, though there are differing opinions. While age matters in classifying people into generations, it’s really the value system and philosophy that a new group adopts that defines and unites them. Millennials, like many generations before them, have a different point of view than […]

Your GPA was your school’s way of measuring effort and aptitude, but many kids don’t realize that it will follow them all the way through their career when looking for a job. Two-thirds of all employers use GPA as a means of screening applicants. It seems like it’s a convenient way to make a quick determination […]