TG & Associates introduces robust new staffing tools!

For those of you who read our articles and attend our presentations, you know that we are great proponents of training and education. We know that a competent, knowledgeable, well-trained staff will give you a competitive advantage in today's marketplace. To succeed today you must be able to provide your customers with solutions and ideas to solve their problems. In order to stay ahead of your customer, you must invest the time, energy and money to educate yourself and your entire team.

I want to share with you that we practice what we preach. Bill and I spent September 23 and 24th in Minneapolis, MN, and September 27 in Toronto, Canada, being educated and trained on new tools that we can now offer you.

We chose these tools so that we can provide our customers with the latest state-of-the-art resources for gaining and growing your competitive advantage. These new tools are able to provide further insight into on the job behavior and team cooperation. We are also now able to focus personality testing in specific job disciplines to further enhance applicant screening and selection. We will continue to offer Wonderlic© testing and the Proception2 personality profile which have proven themselves as invaluable in the hiring process. To find out more about our additional new tools, just check out the links that follow:

And if you are not familiar with our existing tools, just follow these links to get more information:

Once you have had a chance to look at our new tools, give us a call and let us help you develop a staffing strategy that takes full advantage of our expertise and helps you build the right team.

 

TG & Associates Launches HiringDept.com

Our original "How to Series" was developed to help hiring managers understand and follow the discipline needed to find, develop and retain top performers. Our clients report great success when they follow the step-by-step guides contained in those workbooks. But with the increasing pressures of new technology, intense competition and the effort required to make a good hire, many of our clients have asked us to "walk the talk." We have received so many requests for assistance in conducting this disciplined process that we have committed ourselves to help owners and managers succeed in their business by providing them a service that frees them to work on their business more effectively.

HiringDept.com is our response to this need.

 

Debra Thompson, President of TG & Associates, has defined industry "best practices" based on over 25 years of business ownership experience combined with her current research and experience in personnel analysis, hiring, training, developing, and teambuilding. Those best practices are embodied in our proven hiring process and are the cornerstone for the operations of HiringDept.com. Our specialists use her proven methods to "Hire the Right Person the First Time."

Shari Moore is now a full time member of TG & Associates. Shari has been active in TG & Associates on a part-time basis since February 2001, but with her recent graduation from the University of Arizona, she will now be available full time as the Manager of HiringDept.com providing staffing solutions for small business owners across the country.

TG & Associates, "The Experts in People Solutions TM", brings cost effective Human Resource services to your business, through our Virtual Programs and HiringDept.com.

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Electronic Communications
Netiquette: Another word added to our vocabulary

Today we are inundated with technology; fax machines, cell phones, computers and e-mail. While these are all wonderful tools to improve our efficiency and speed up our transactions, they are not meant to replace human interaction. This rapid movement of computerization of the modern office has changed our communication dramatically.

The business etiquette of electronic communication is still being developed. Netiquette is a word used for online etiquette. I hear companies crying out for answers on how to control the behavior in and around e-mail. Its time we take good manners to cyberspace.

As a means to move netiquette into the culture of corporations, several companies have implemented certain rules or bylaws in their employee handbooks. Others are still deciding whether or not they want to attempt to steer this ever-changing communication tool. For those ready to add discipline to their electronic communications, consider the following as a review of basic rules for proper Netiquette:

Be professional. Some of our first impressions are through electronic communications. Think before you shoot off a message. Conduct yourself in a business-like manner at all times, using appropriate business language.

Be direct and to the point. E-mails are meant to be a short quick communication. Think of e-mail as a replacement for those bright colored Post-it Notes you used to leave someone.

Structure your e-mail so it is easily read.

Motivating Employees through Corporate Incentive Programs

A recent Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) Foundation study, the result of a year's worth of research, shows that when incentive programs target individual employees, performance increases by 27 percent; when they target employee teams, companies can see a 45 percent boost in sales. When researchers talked to workers, they found that 92 percent of them credit incentive programs as the reason they reached their goals.

Yet according to SITE Foundation President Mike Hadlow, president of US Motivation, Atlanta, many companies still aren't rewarding their employees. "It's largely a matter of unenlightened management. There's still a corporate philosophy out there that says, 'We pay our people, and that should be enough,' and the majority of companies simply think they're too much of a hassle to administer and manage. They don't necessarily know that they can get help to do this."

Consider these compelling reasons to take a closer look at incentive programs in your business:

If you are considering implementing a corporate incentive program within your business, it is important to analyze your specific needs. By looking at specific areas that you would like to boost including sales, consumer, employee retention, performance improvement, you will better be able to choose the type of program that will work for you. When choosing a vendor to assist in designing and implementing your program, it is important to understand how they operate to help you achieve your goal.

Consider the following types:

For more information on Incentive Programs, visit http://www.incentivecentral.org.

Customized Staffing Solutions

Need help to find the best candidate?

The "Experts in People Solutions" will find the top performers for you.

Assess staffing needs and develop job description Design a winning classified ad campaign using the classified sand the internet Analyze resumes and prescreen prospective candidates Interview and reference check Profile and test Prepare hiring manager for formal interview Conduct background check Inform non-selected candidates

Á la Carte Services All services listed within the Complete Hiring Package can be purchased individually or as a special package customized for your particular needs.

Debra's Calendar through January 2005