Firing an employee who does not expect it is often the impetus for that employee filing a discrimination lawsuit against his or her former employer. When the employee does not see it coming, he or she can think the termination is discriminatory. Clear and blunt...
Chances are you stop at red lights, signal before turning and know when to yield. Motor vehicle laws are generally clear and specific and we all need to pass a test to get our drivers’ license. Before you hired your first employee, however, nobody tested you on the...
You’ve got a great product or service to sell. You’ve identified your target audience and are creating a market niche for yourself. But, you can’t do everything yourself, so you begin to hire employees to help you. Following that stage, many entrepreneurs find...
I recently mentioned to a colleague that I wished clients would call me before they fired the pregnant employee. No disrespect intended to pregnant ladies here (having been one myself—twice). However, one of my goals in life seems to be to get employers to understand...
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…” —L. Ron Hubbard1 _______________________ Mr. Hubbard defined a “cycle of action” in this way: “Control may be subdivided into three separate parts. These parts are: “START-CHANGE-and-STOP....
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron Hubbard Firing an employee who does not expect it is often the impetus for that employee filing a discrimination lawsuit against his or her former employer. When the employee does not see it coming,...
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron HubbardWe live and work in a diversely populated world. With no harm intended, people often inadvertently include sexist language in their writing and speech (i.e., language that tends to evoke a...
If you are familiar with Mr. Hubbard’s management system, you know that he recognized that conditions in a business can be improved by applying certain specific and identified condition formulas. In an article entitled THE CONDITIONS, STATES OF OPERATION, he said:...
In my thirty years of experience as a management consultant, what is the biggest issue I have found with regard to hiring new staff? In speaking with hundreds of business professionals over the years, I've found they have no real tools for hiring and no real method of...
Over the last quarter of a century as the CEO of Sterling Management Systems, I have seen hundreds of thousands of people introduced to the Hubbard Administrative Technology. I’ve even proudly received an award from WISE International for my work over the decades....
Although I’ve delivered hundreds of management seminars through Sterling’s1 30+year history, I am always amazed that no matter what the theme of my seminar, I invariably end up answering questions about managing staff. Managing personnel can be, by far, the most...
My profession as a management consultant involves the education of business owners and their staff. Having been at this for 30 years, I wanted to pass on something I’ve learned along the way. When I was a young man, I had an opportunity to learn to play music with...