5 Ways Social Media Can Benefit Human Resources Managers

Human resources departments have an excellent tool at their fingertips that they never had before.  This tool can help human resources department build trust, train potential employees, and of course, recruit new employees.

What is it?  Social media, of course.

There are 5 ways that human resources departments can use social media to benefit themselves and to benefit those who work for them:

1. Better communications – The main point behind social media is communicating with others and sharing information.  That builds trust.  When people trust you, what do they do?  They share information with you.  Information can help you get leads for potential new employees and helps you build a better team of employees.  Potential employees need to be aware of your company and need to consider it as a place they would want to work at.  When you communicate effectively people will get to know you, trust you, and want to work for you.
2. Training – Training should be ongoing.  Both you and the team of employees that you build for your company need constant training to upgrade knowledge and stay at the top of your game.   You can encourage training through sharing of information, encouraging conversation, and discussing case studies.  Employees can learn from each other and from you as the sharing of information is made easier than ever through social media forms like blogs, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
3. Sharing information – The basis of social media is the opportunity to share information.  By sharing information with others you become an expert in your field.  As you become recognized as an expert you are exposed to even more information that increases your knowledge.  It is a circle that once you enter can continue without limits.  As you build trust and relationships though social media, individuals and companies that may not have shared with you before are more likely to do so.
4. Retaining talent – Once you have the talent in your team you need to keep them.  To keep your talent you need to challenge them and provide them with information that will allow them to do their jobs in new and creative ways.  Interaction between staff encourages creativity and empowers staff to take incentives with their jobs and their learning.
5. Sharing information about benefits and compensation – A large part of recruiting new talent is making information available about the benefits of working for your company.  If potential candidates are not even aware of the benefit of working for your company they are unlikely to consider approaching you about employment.  By sharing information about benefits and compensation, new employees will come to you and that makes recruiting less of a challenge.

The Samurai Game: Learn it, Live it, Love it at Quattro University taught by Andi Burgess!

First you are asking? What is the Samurai Game? Who Invented it? Who owns it? Why should I even attend? Bruce Lee? No.  The Samurai Game is arguably the most unique, intense and challenging leadership and teambuilding simulation available for all!  The Game was invented in 1977 by George Leonard author of numerous books including: Mastery, The Silent Pulse, The Ultimate Athlete, Walking on the Edge of the World, The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei, and The Life We Are Given (co-author Michael Murphy).  The Game is copyrighted and owned by George Leonard and by The Leonard Trust and not by Bruce Lee.

Quattro University a university for entrepeneurs is offering Pivot training and you should not miss it. It will cover how your perceptions open up or close off possibilities in regards to getting what you want.  Specific tools to uncover their own deep-rooted beliefs and effective ways to break out of any limiting beliefs.  What is your relationship with change and how that affects your results.  The importance of being conscious vs. automatic in your thoughts.  The importance of collaboration vs. competition for success.  How to shift your paradigm in the moment and sustain that shift.  This class will be taught by Andi Burgis is an esteemed instructor for Quattro University and an advisor to the Quattro Leadership Team.

She is also the founder of her own company, Challenge U, which provides experiential team development and leadership training to business groups and individuals. Andi brings an extensive background in communication, team building, coaching and leadership training, and program design and implementation to Quattro University. In fact, Andi is one of just a few individuals in the world certified to lead the Samurai Game®, a powerful leadership simulation developed by George Leonard, a pioneer in the field of human development. Her ability to effectively relate to and quickly establish trust with participants is truly her biggest gift.

Quattro University provides experiential education to empower Entrepreneurs. Our programs teach you to optimize across the four key areas of Wealth, Wellness, Leadership and Legacy to create
ultimate success and become an Entrepreneur4. Visit them at www.quattrouniversity.com for more information on how you can experience the world-class education products.

Communicate & Influence

Everything we do with our friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, family, business partners, vendors, clients, and our employees requires us to communicate.

Communication is how modern life is conceived. It is the single most important facet as you approach anything. The way you communicate with someone will define and redefine how you are perceived. You hear leaders, athletes, coach’s, parents, authors, anyone and everyone at one time or another say I didn’t mean to say this or that. That wasn’t my intention.

How you communicate is critical in your marriage, your everyday life, work, clients, vendors and to your staff. At the Masters University we will redefine how you communicate. The skills we will teach you will impact you forever. I have been asking this for the last few days – have you ever moved an object without touching it? That is what influence is in its purest form.

How do you become a thought leader? You do it by influencing your reader or your audience. The Masters University CEO makes it clear being able to influence is not the same as being able to manipulate. At The Masters University you are taught to move objects without touching them by truly being an influencer – a thought leader. No matter how good you are or your team is, why not give yourself or them the tools to be better.  www.themastersuniversity.com

In A Tough Or Great Economy It is Critical To Start A Business With The Right Ingredients

Starting a Start-Up business can be as tasty, exciting, and fresh as eating a delicious salad or it can quite frankly be as terrible as the worst salad you ate that simply ruins your appetite for days, if not weeks.

Just like a salad, for your business to succeed you need to have the right ingredients.

You need an experienced management team, planning, realistic expectations, effort, commitment, and market research. So I just put the salad and mixed it with nuts, strawberries, oranges, chicken, cheese, and tomatoes. It is good, but it is missing something, what is it?

Well, the most important ingredient in a salad is the dressing and one of the most important things in starting a business innovation. You must innovate and set yourself apart, but make no mistake it starts with management. Management needs to plan, act, and react or else your business will fail.

The Masters University Revolutionizing How Training Is Taught

The Masters University was created to serve a growing market need for every single person to truly impact what they do in business by employing a common sense approach and delivering immediate value. An influencer training course that will change how you do business and will elevate your everyday activity. Come preview it at no cost to you.

Our flagship program, The Masters Course in Communication and Influence™ is designed to help sales professionals and business owners redefine the way that they communicate and influence others during the buy-sell-encounter.

In this course, we help participants to shift their perspective to the buyer and refine their skills with powerful communication techniques, without attempting to change who they are. These are just some of ways that we’re different from other sales training courses that you may have taken or heard about.

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You Have To Love What You Do

This post is dedicated to those people that are confused about what they want to do and what job they want to do.

I have experienced it all, the highs of being on top and the lows of feeling what I offer a company is, well, worthless.  Through it all, I have survived and gained an appreciation for the people I have met, worked with, laughed with, and stayed up all night working with and felt a type of satisfaction that I can’t describe except by saying it made my bones itch.

I have come to the conclusion it is about the passion.  Regardless of what you are getting paid in stocks, cash, or if you are not getting paid, it starts with Passion and ends with Passion.  You have to love what you do and if you love what you do, it will be contagious and rub on people you are around.

Times are tough right now and we are all struggling, some more than others, but remember do what you are passionate about and love what you do because you have a chance to inspire, lead, make a difference, in every single situation you do.