Firing employees: Goose bumps
Jaclyn Law |
The thought of terminating toxic employees is terrifying when they’re the guardians of vital knowledge or valuable relationships. Here’s how to do it without losing the golden egg.

Employee compensation: Wage war
Diane Peters |
With unemployment at a 33-year low, pay rates are soaring. Here's how to hang on to staff without handing out huge salary hikes.

Cross-border recruiters
Charmaine Noronha |
Foreign temps could be the answer to your staffing woes, but hiring them is a nightmare. Why not let someone do it for you?

References done right
Kira Vermond |
If you don't learn much new about job candidates by calling their references, you may be making one of these common but regrettable errors.

Great Ideas: Improving cross-cultural communication
PROFIT-Xtra |
Tactics entrepreneurs can employ to minimize the challenges faced by culturally diverse employees, from cross-cultural specialists Don Rutherford and Lionel Laroche in Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Different Employees.

Peer-to-Peer: I can’t fire my disengaged staff
PROFIT-Xtra |

Great Ideas: Become a better mentor
PROFIT-Xtra |
Advice on boosting employee performance through mentoring, from Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance, a Harvard Business Essentials guidebook.

Great Ideas: Cure staff burnout — and still meet business goals
PROFIT-Xtra |
Tips to help your staff manage work-life balance while meeting business goals, from Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization by entrepreneur Steven J. Stein.

School of hire learning: Skills shortage? An in-house training program can help
Eleanor Beaton |
When a labour shortage pinches productivity, it can pay to launch your own training institute. Just ask Kevin Halliday.

Grey matters: Psychometric assessments can enhance your firm's productivity
Eleanor Beaton |
Cognitive ability tests, personality tests and other psychometric assessments can help you hire smarter, build killer teams and spot the stars among your staff.

The ultimate guide to hiring today's best employees: The new rules of recruiting
Allan Britnell |
A talent shortage looms for small business as boomers approach retirement. Entrepreneurs will have to do more to attract and retain top employees.

Great Ideas: How to reward employees
PROFIT-Xtra |
Creative ways to reward hard-working employees, drawn from successful U.S. companies in 1001 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson.

Banish vacation deprivation
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Great Ideas: How to track employee performance
PROFIT-Xtra |
The best of current business books

Pleased to meet you. You're hired!
Diane Peters |
Speed interviewing could be your solution to "so many job candidates, so little time."