Does Everyone Like Recognition?

Wouldn’t it be great to finish a project with the personal satisfaction of a job well done and receive recognition?  Often executives believe that recognition is part of the “annual review” when strengths or accomplishments are acknowledged along with the weaknesses and improvement plan.  The recognition rewards are limited only by your imagination but we do have some creative suggestions on our newsletter.  Check out it on our JK Consultants’ website and let us show you how to drive up morale and productivity while you drive down turnover.  After all, doesn’t everyone like recognition?  Let us know you thoughts.  Have you tried a recognition program?  How did it work for you?

What is the future of work

There is great speculation on the future of work.  This article points out some interesting perspectives.  Do you work virtually some or all of the time?  What do you think work will be like in the future?  Read the article in our October newsletter and let us know what you think about the future of work.

Do you still define success by having the corner office?

The saying was that there are three things that matter in real estate – location, location, location.  In the past, this also applied to office space when a promotion meant a better or more private office space and ultimate success was defined a having the “corner office.”  Does this still apply today?  Many companies have responded to met the needs of the modern workforce who want to work virtually at least some, if not all of the time and are reaping huge rewards.  Check out our September newsletter for our article entitled Location, Location, Location.  Let us know what changes you have made to get the most out of the modern workforce.

We are now planning our 2012 editorial calendar – let us know what topics or issues you would like us to tackle.  We have received some of our best ideas from our readers.  Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.

 

Have you ever been speechless during an interview?

Picture this — you have been looking forward to interviewing this top caliber candidate with an amazing history of accomplishments.  The day of your interview finally arrives and you can tell the candidate is nervous but seems prepared.  After the icebreaker small talk you ask your first question and the candidate is stumped; the candidate has no idea how to answer it.  Or worse, there is something negative about the candidate or their work history and you happen to nail that right at the beginning of the interview.  How should you expect a top caliber candidate to respond?  Well, you will just have to read out September newsletter to find out.

Let us know what has been the toughest interview question you have asked or been asked during an interview.

The August Newsletter Arrives

Our August Newsletter has been delivered to your inbox.  Thank you to all of our subscribers for reading our newsletter every month.  We appreciate all of our subscribers.  This month’s topics are the corporate ladder and strategic conversations.

In our first article “Corporate Ladder“ we try to provide good insight about what the corporate ladder looks like today compared to the traditional corporate ladder that has been in place since the industrial revolution.  It is very different.  We would like to hear from you to let us know what the corporate ladder looks like in your company.

We talk about strategy, creating strategic plans, thinking strategically but what does this really mean?    Our second article gives you some suggestions for actually having strategic conversations so that all these strategic plans do not become shelf documents.

As always, we would like to hear from you — what do you think of our newsletter?  Are there any topics you would like to us to tackle?  Some of our favorite topics have been suggested by our readers.

Hope you enjoy our Newsletter.

Announcing JK Consultants’ July Newsletter

The July newsletter will be delivered to your inbox shortly.  The new movie “Horrible Boss” opened recently in theatres and there has been some discussions about this topic on blogs and publications.  We thought it would be good to cover this topic from a different perspective.  Our newsletter takes a fresh approach to what can be an old topic and focuses on a comparison of a “tough” boss and a bad boss.  We don’t want to say too much here so you will be sure to check out our newsletter.  Our second article takes a fresh approach to the knowledge worker.  Are you managing your knowledge workers effectively?

As always, let us know what you think of our articles and what topics you would like to see us tackle in upcoming issues of our monthly newsletter.

Do your employees look forward to your meetings?

Some executives intuitively know how to have great meetings.  Others have meetings that are unfocused, usually start late and end even later.  Most employees think that meetings are a waste of time even though we spend much of our week attending them.  How can you facilitate meetings that your employees will look forward to attending because they are interesting, necessary and productive?  Check out the suggestions in our upcoming newsletter.

We all want to have more time to enjoy these beautiful summer months so our second article addresses another topic that can take much of our time and energy – workplace conflict resolution.  It is so important to have a policy and procedure that empowers employees to resolve their workplace conflicts as soon as possible.  Our article provides some suggestions on putting a resolution process in place.  We welcome you to post conflict resolution suggestions that have worked for your business that you would like to share with others.

JK Consultants’ May Newsletter

Our newsletter will be arriving in your inbox shortly.  We have two great articles – insights into negotiating and the art of listening.  We often think we are a great negotiator if we always get our way but, as you will see in this article, true success and long-term relationships can more easily come from a genuine win-win approach to negotiating.  Our second article is on the Art of Listening – we are all so busy and so much of our communications are by email or text that we often don’t give listening a second thought.  This article may help you to fine tune your listening skills and improve communication skills.

We also want to remind employers that, if you are wondering where are all those great job seekers, our private network provides access to top performing candidates that are ready to consider their next career opportunity.

Top performer job seekers can check out all the new jobs on our updated website.  Visit the JK Consultants website and Post Your Resume, Search All Jobs, View Featured Jobs and Set Alerts so when your dream job is posted, you will be immediately notified. Your information is completely confidential.

April Newsletter – Change or rearrange?

When you make changes in your organization, does it feel like it becomes simply a rearrange?  Did you know that the majority of change management fails?  After you read our insightful article on how to manage effective change in your organization, let us know what has worked for you so that we can share it with our community of subscribers.

We have also written an article on creating an anti-harassment workplace.  Did you know that if you have even one employee you are vulnerable to a harassment complaint and lawsuit.  Again, let us know what you are doing to make your workplace harassment free.

We hope you enjoy the articles in our April newsletter.  If you do not receive a copy of our monthly newsletter, visit our website www.JKSuccess.com and subscribe.

Getting Healthier All The Time

Whether you are an executive in a company looking for ways to make your company healthier or are looking for a new career opportunity, you will enjoy reading our March newsletter.  Our first article will give you some ideas for improving the health of your company.  The second article will help those looking to make a career change.  We would like to hear from you if you have some suggestions for articles in our future newsletters.  We are always looking to improve the lives of our newsletter subscribers by delivering interesting and useful articles.