Dealing with intelligent but aggressive staff members, sometimes given the label “alpha” for “leader of the pack” is one of the challenges a manager often faces. On the one hand, they can provide leadership and productivity for your team but on the other hand, they can be hard to manage and disruptive to building collegial staff relationships. In this episode, we’ll discuss ways of dealing with these staff members.

Once you, the hiring manager and your team, have met the final candidates you need to make the best choice for your department. Once you have received feedback from each member of your hiring team, both in a meeting and with their individual ratings, then you’ll be able to make your final decision. Once that is accomplished, and the references verified, it will be time to move on to landing the candidate. This podcast deals with deciding on the top candidate.

The Gallup Organization has been measuring Employee Engagement among thousands of employees since 2000 using questions that measure 12 factors of engagement. The level of enthusiasm employees feel toward their work and workplace is a powerful predictor of numerous important business outcomes, including the quality of the work, level of productivity, safety, and profitability, among other things. In this episode we’ll talk about some of the components of engagement and what managers can to increase it among their staffs.