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Team building is critical to the success of every company. You have a common goal and each member needs to contribute to win the game and be successful. These work traditions help employers enhance team building skills:

1. Rewards & Bonuses - Verbal recognition along with gifts of appreciation are ways to reward employees for their contributions and reaffirm their value to the team.

2. Luncheons - Provide an opportunity to share with colleagues. Too often, employees become self-absorbed in their own work, company lunches enable them broaden their understanding of the bigger company picture and how they fit into it.

3. Activities - Company dinners, a day at the amusement park, or community service activities help relieve stress and break-up a day-to-day routine. When employers treat their people as team members, it encourages team camaraderie.

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Business Manners Apply to Interviewers

by Lydia Ramsey

Today's job applicants are encountering a lack of courtesy that is all too common. Businesses are flooded with applicants for every opening and many are showing a lack of respect for job seekers by failing to respond to their applications.

Most employers request resumes and other documentation be sent by e-mail. Occasionally they use the old-fashioned method-the anonymous post office box. The huge volume of applications makes it seem difficult to respond personally to each one. However, the technology is there to reply to all.

Most e-mail programs have the ability to send an automatic response letting applicants know that their information has been received and how and when they will be notified of an interview or the lack of one. If the application is handled through postal mail, a generic letter can be generated and sent out with the same details. There is no excuse for leaving applicants in the dark.

Following an interview, employers continue their thoughtlessness. Applicants are told they will be contacted within a certain time, but it never happens. With the search narrowed, the number of calls or letters should be manageable. People who reach this level in the interview process deserve a follow-up. They need to know if the position has been filled or if the process is continuing.

Consider it public relations for the organization. The person who applies for the job and is treated shabbily by an organization has friends and acquaintances whom they are likely to tell. Furthermore, that applicant may one day be an influential businessperson with a long memory when it comes to choosing business connections.

Job seekers are customers, too, and should receive the same level of customer service as everyone else.

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About The Author

Lydia Ramsey is a business etiquette expert, professional speaker, corporate trainer and author of MANNERS THAT SELL -ADDING THE POLISH THAT BUILDS PROFITS. For more information about her no cost e-zine, her programs, products and services, e-mail her at or visit her web site http://www.mannersthatsell.com.

Human Resource Article

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Help Employees Become Better Workers

Business Manners Apply to Interviewers