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FCRA Infringement – Big Name? You’re Still Not Safe From Lawsuits
What do InfoTrack, AutoZone, Home Depot, Instant Checkmate and Aaron’s furniture stores all have in common?No, they’re not all featuring awesome Black Friday deals.They’re actually all facing, or have faced, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-related lawsuits in 2014....
So You Think You Hired the Wrong Person – And Now You Want to Fire Them
Whoopsie. You made a big blunder. John Doe gave you a great interview. You were impressed with his credentials, enjoyed his sense of humor, marveled at his intelligent answers. Heck, you even liked the confidence behind his handshake and eye contact. You offered John...
How to Help an Introvert Break Out of Their Shell
Sheldon Cooper, the infamous (and some argue, obnoxious) character of The Big Bang Theory, is without a doubt one of the smartest people on the planet. He certainly doesn’t lack for confidence in his intelligence, but early on in the show, Sheldon was a bit of an...
The Best of LinkedIn Influencers – How to Kill Your Career Quickly
We spend so much of our lives building toward a career. In our younger years, we’re peppered with the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question. By high school we’re concerned with attending colleges and universities that excel in our expected majors. When...
The Best of LinkedIn Influencers: The Cost to Fire a Bad Teacher – $300K
We have probably all experienced the best and worst kinds of educators. They have imprinted themselves into our brains by their teaching styles, the incredibly good and the equally incredibly bad. Like this guy: The thing about teachers, though, that Joel Klein so...
The Best of LinkedIn Influencers: Hire Our Veterans
The term ‘influencer’ has been a hot topic on the ActiveCare blog lately. We’ve given you great tips on how to climb your company’s social and leadership ladder. We’ve talked with workplace relationship experts about how to build trust with your compadres. This week,...
5 things you should be checking before you hire anyone for any job
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Improving Workplace Relationships – Trust Is Everything
Building solid relationships at work takes, well, work. In most cases, you don’t just walk in one day and immediately become the leader of the pack. That’s because most relationships, personal and professional, need to be built on a foundation of trust.We spend a lot...
The Number One Strategy To Build Workplace Relationships
If our workplaces had yearbooks, we’d probably all like to be voted ‘Most Popular.’ Sure, ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ would top the list for the incredibly ambitious, but as we all know, it can be lonely at the top. So, if you’re not willing to keep a roster of haters,...
Workplace Relationships – Become THE Go-To at Your Company
There is a word that gets thrown around the interwebs a lot these days: Influencer. If you’re not familiar with the term, that’s okay. But chances are, if you don’t know what one is, then you’re not one. And that’s not okay. So here’s the deal. As you probably guessed...