A team that works well together has a far greater chance of achieving success. Well, pretty much everyone already knows this, so why doesn’t it always happen?

The start of a new year is a popular time to reflect back and make plans for the years to come. People often celebrate this time of year by planning out their New Year’s resolutions, and your company might well wish to emulate this. Businesses too often only look at the budgets, sales forecasts, and other financial considerations.

Perhaps you want to add festive elements beyond a traditional company holiday party, or your office, like so many others, doesn’t have the cash for a big event. Here are some easy ideas to add festive fun to your workplace, without having to break the budget.

The importance of the festive season doesn’t stop when you enter the office. For many workers, it is a chance to spend quality time as a team and enliven their workplace. Even if you aren’t particularly fond of Christmas or any of the other holidays in the season, this time of year can present opportunities for you.

Once upon a time, your whole team would be sitting just outside your office, ready to answer questions about the tasks they were doing and how far they had progressed. Today, with the rise of enabling technology, we can improve the working environment through flexible working arrangements. One key way, is to enable people to work from home.

If your company plans to distribute holiday or end of the year bonuses, your planning is probably well underway. Here are considerations you might have missed. Beyond your company’s official bonus policies, there are other ways you can make the most of your bonus budget.

Today’s businesses face many challenges. Many are still recovering from the most recent economic downturn and trying to figure out how to deal with the changing political landscape. For many business owners and managers, the challenge is trying to retain good employees and motivate their whole staff, within budget constraints.

You may like to think that your office is working like a well-oiled machine and maybe it is. On the other hand, you might have an employee or two (or more) who might not be pulling his or her weight. It can be difficult to determine if there is an actual problem with someone’s work performance or not. Here is help for identifying employees so you can address their performance. 

The pressure to work more efficiently is ever increasing. We need to work faster, smarter and with more and more information. Not having the right information where and when you need it makes this harder and more stressful.

Team projects are an important part of many businesses. Often multiple people with different expertise are necessary to bring a project to the best conclusion. Unfortunately, the larger the scale of a project, the more potential there is for it to experience delays. Procrastination may not be the problem, it may just be that employees are diverted due to more imminent deadlines.