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Onboarding During the BUSY Season hiring onboarding

 "Onboarding" refers to the process where new hires integrate into an organization. It includes activities that allow new employees to...

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do achiever brick and mortar hiring leading change

When we teach managers about employee selection, we recommend they begin each interview by describing a win-win relationship in employment. You...

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Interviewing Excellence achiever hiring leading change small business

When I first became a manager, I began to learn a lot of new things: Inventory management, visual merchandising, sales training, scheduling. One...

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No Barriers. All the Barriers. achiever hiring leading change small business

In the industries The Mann Group serves there is often an all or nothing mentality.  You are either elite or you are not.  Brands find...

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Todayā€™s Biggest Retail Challenge achiever brick and mortar hiring leading change redefine retail small business

Retailers can often find themselves in a vicious negative cycle. Because they can’t find quality employees, they lower the standard and hire...

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Hiring Should Not be Done in a Day achiever brick and mortar hiring leading change

Let’s face it: we’re all pretty lucky. Most of us don’t roll out of bed in the mornings, we positively hop out of the sheets and...

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The Integritor achiever hiring leadership small business soft skills

In the late nineties, during my time leading at Bachrach men’s clothing, we had a focus on high-quality hiring. We worked with Jerry Bell of...

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The Entrepreneur achiever hiring influencing behavior leadership small business soft skills

The fifth, and most obvious attribute of an achiever is the Entrepreneur. While it may be obvious that an achiever has entrepreneurial...

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Team Builder achiever hiring influencing behavior leadership small business soft skills

For those of you who have been following along, you know that we are spending six weeks describing the attributes of an Achiever. An Achiever...

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The Survivor achiever hiring influencing behavior leadership small business

“Fall down seven times, get up eight”.

This is the mantra of the Survivor. A survivor is another of the six attributes of an...

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The Producer achiever hiring influencing behavior leadership small business

The second component of an Achiever is the Producer. We say the Producer “gets today’s work done today.” They love goals and...

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The Creator achiever hiring influencing behavior leadership small business the creator

Let’s talk about the first component of an Achiever: The Creator. It may seem grandiose to refer to someone as “The Creator”, but...

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