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Why Are Employees Failing to Perform?

Deborah Budd
2/28/2023

Managing people can be the most difficult part of owning ...

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The Best Employee Incentive Is Purpose

Deborah Budd
2/21/2023

Using monetary incentives to motivate employee productivity or increase performance ...

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Full Circle – To 360 or Not to 360?

Second Wind
2/14/2023

Employee reviews are a huge headache for most smaller agency ...

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Trust Your People

Second Wind
1/11/2023

A number of years ago, there was a very interesting ...

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Can’t See the Trees for the Forest?

Second Wind
1/5/2023

No matter how you attract, recruit, or stumble upon a ...

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Healthy Turnover Rate

What is a “Healthy” Employee Turnover Rate?

Second Wind
11/2/2022

With the unemployment rate at 3.7 percent, and the ...

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New Employee Training and Orientation Builds Agency Success

Second Wind
7/26/2022

Recruiting, interviewing and hiring is a big investment for your ...

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Hire and Hire: How Do You Navigate a Candidate’s Market?

Jack Henke
6/16/2022

We’ve never been here before. Over the history of ...

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To Hire People, You Need to Talk to Candidates

Deborah Budd
5/24/2022

At Second Wind, we assist many agencies seeking job candidates ...

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Culture Doesn’t Happen According to a Plan

Deborah Budd
5/17/2022

We write often about the importance of a strong agency ...

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Your Agency, Your People: Making Your Workplace Happy, Healthy and Safe

Second Wind
5/11/2022

Most of us who’ve been in the business world ...

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Ten Things Every Employer Deserves

Second Wind
5/11/2022

The employer-employee relationship is a two-way street. Just as employees ...

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Use the Monthly BYOC to Improve Agency Performance

Second Wind
4/6/2022

Many smaller agency owners are so wrapped up in day-to-day ...

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How’s Your Leadership Growing?

Second Wind
3/11/2022

It is a well-established fact that agencies with better leadership ...

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Put the Employees First

Second Wind
2/22/2022

David Ogilvy once said that all his agency’s assets ...

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Four Essentials for Better Agency Management

Beth James
10/13/2021

We’ve written a lot about finding the right people ...

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Benefits of Employee Testing

The Benefits of Employee Testing

Jeremy Mullen
8/31/2021

To properly value your workforce, you need strong insight into ...

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Instead of Engagement, Focus on Trust, Purpose and Heart

Deborah Budd
7/14/2021

Engagement.It’s a word we throw around like it ...

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Be a Mentor, Not a Boss: Welcoming Younger Workers to the Agency

Deborah Budd
6/21/2021

Countless articles discuss coaching and mentoring, work attitudes and differing ...

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The ROI of Trust: The HR Benefits of High-Trust Organizations

Deborah Budd
5/17/2021

As you set your advertising agency’s culture goals, it ...

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