It’s a hot topic, with a giant winter storm blanketing a lot of the country today. The question is: What is your company’s snow policy? Some people are saying that their company is zero-tolerance; if you’re scheduled to work and you don’t show up, you’re in trouble. Others are more lenient: Safety comes first, and…
Category: Soft Skills
Dale Carnegie Indy can show you how to attract the best talent to drive economic recovery
As a business owner when you are in a position to hire, you are faced with a tough decision. Today, there are more talented people seeking work than ever before. How do you find the most qualified person to fill a position – and feel confident that he or she will be a good fit in…
Turning a layoff into opportunity
If you were to be faced with unexpected unemployment, would you treat the situation as an opportunity? That’s the idea behind Succeed on Purpose, an incubator recently featured in the New York Times that takes what the founder calls “reluctant entrepreneurs” and turns them into business owners. How to do that? Well, the first thing…
Indiana looks to reduce cost of government
Like so many businesses, Indiana’s state government is taking a hard look at its budget, seeing where it can cut costs. The Indianapolis Business Journal’s website ran a story today about the state taking a closer look at expenditures and where it can bring in some extra revenue. Although nothing’s been finalized yet, some ideas…