Archive for the ‘On The Job Advice’ Category
W.W. Grainger Inc., A Best Place to Work in 2010
Why You Want to Work There: The IT team at this Lake Forest, Ill., company, which distributes maintenance, repair and service equipment, is a busy group. The company’s systems handle an average of 95,000 transactions per day, and IT workers collaborate with the business to deliver projects with bottom-line implications. For example, the IT team […]
In: Business Stories, On The Job Advice · Tagged with: Architecture Model, Computerworld, Forest Ill, Incentive Program, Incentive Programs, Increase Customer Satisfaction, Lake Forest, Long Term Management, Maintenance Repair, Management Incentive, Piece Of The Pie, Previous Year, Program Participants, Retirement Savings, Salary Information, Satisfaction Scores, Service Oriented Architecture, Target Award, W W Grainger, W W Grainger Inc
At the Company Picnic, Etiquette Matters
Memorial Day is gone, and Labor Day beckons ahead. Sometime in between, many of us are likely to find ourselves at an oft-dreaded workplace event: the company summer outing. It’s a tossup as to which comes fraught with more peril, frolicking in the sand with the pasty-legged guys from IT or shimmying with “secret Santas” […]
In: On The Job Advice · Tagged with: Barbecued Chicken, Best Behavior, Casual Atmosphere, Company Picnic, Corn Cob, Corn On The Cob, Largest Snake, Leeway, Managers Network, Office Christmas Party, Picnic Etiquette, Picnic Table, Proper Table Manners, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Relevant Insight, Secret Santas, Slob, Summer Outing, Survival Group, Thong Bikinis
Top Ten Tips for Working With Other Cultures
As companies continue to grow internationally, more employees are finding themselves working with people from other countries and cultures that they are not familiar with. Don’t make the mistake in assuming there is no difference in the work environment. Our values and personalities develop largely from the values and belief systems of the cultures we […]
In: On The Job Advice · Tagged with: Baby Steps, Belief Systems, Co Workers, Colleagues, Countries And Cultures, Curiosity, Finding People, Goals, Holidays, Human Beings, Mistake, Personalities, Priority, Rituals, Slang, Variety, Work Environment, Work Experience, Working People
