Leadership Articles

If a difficult supervisor is making your work life miserable, it’s time to learn how to ‘manage up’

Maintaining a good roster of employees ultimately comes down to engagement. Accomplish that and everything else about managing your team falls into place. Some understanding of how the human brain functions can help.

Effective employee-recognition programs bolster engagement, reduce turnover and drive better behavior and performance

Some crewmembers may question your established policies, but that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to get them to fully believe in the company culture

Here’s a look back on some of the best pieces of advice contractors shared in the pages of Plumber magazine in the past year

These famous words contain wisdom that you can apply to the way you run your business

There are only so many hours in the work day, so it’s important that your management style allows employees to maximize their productivity

If you want happy and productive workers, avoid these sometimes trite, oftentimes dismissive phrases and take a more direct approach to communication

You start your own business largely to have more control over operations, but there’s a point where that can become detrimental to both yourself and your company

Growth is great if that’s a goal for your company, but you’ll have to be prepared to adjust your small-business perspective accordingly