CFOs hate to hear about poor financial literacy among workers, especially the folks they count as friends. The latest economic news on that front isn't good (though it may be great news for some employers. More on that later.) Just…
Staff management
Have you ever asked an employee to do something and didn't get the results you wanted? Most of us had that experience at one time or another. Sometimes you ask for one thing and they hear something completely different! How…
Nobody really wants to dock an employee's pay. But sometimes, it's the only step you can take for the sake of your company's bottom line - and in many cases, the person's continued employment. When it comes to docking an…
Because of inflation and economic uncertainty, marketing spend is dropping back closer to pre-COVID levels, according to new data from The CMO Survey, a biannual poll conducted by the American Marketing Association, Deloitte and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.…
The more things change, the more they stay the same! The youngest generation of workers entering the workforce isn't earning high marks from the older generations, to put it mildly. Generation Z aka the Zoomers are the "most challenging" age…
Small business CEOs and CFOs are as worried about inflation, tight credit, banks going under and a looming recession just as bigger companies' leaders are. One of the widest differences in opinion is staffing. Large companies in a range of…
Holding managers and staffers accountable for the work they do is a day-in, day-out job. Leaders in any organization may be tempted to let some folks off the hook for a minor mistake or communication breakdown sometimes. But letting an…
Asking for staffers' input helps increase morale and boosts teamwork. It also leads to great ideas that help companies make and save money. Not all supervisors remember this on a regular basis. It's easy to get tunnel vision and focus…
Increasingly clever cybercriminals are out to take your company’s money. They’d even stoop so low as hacking you with a purchase order that looks real. For example, emails with an attachment disguised as a purchase order can contain links to…
Employees who are just getting started on their annual tax filing chores may come to you or other finance staffers for info. A lot of cash-strapped folks will be trying to save money by doing their taxes themselves, but they've…
Hundreds of your C-suite peers retired or stepped down last year, and job-related burnout may have influenced their decisions. Among them were Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, DocuSign CEO Dan Springer and Red Lobster CEO Kelli Valade. More recently, on the…
If you believe workplace polls, more than half of working adults do just about the bare minimum that's required to keep their jobs. And that's because their bosses either aren't aware of the problem or (more commonly) they just let…
