Stop toxic workplace culture from taking over your small business
Growing a team can be paralyzing for many small business owners. It is hard work. Work you probably don’t have time to do.
Erin Longmoon
Here’s Why You Should Be Facilitating Open Conversations to Avoid Toxic Workplaces
In this episode, I discuss how to avoid toxicity in the workplace with serial entrepreneur and recruiter Erin Longmoon from Zephyr Recruiting. She helps her clients find the UNIQUE FIT™ employees and foster an atmosphere where people love their jobs. Whether building a physical or virtual workforce, Erin helps her clients avoid mistakes. In this …
Why Being Picky About Your Employees Generates Successful Workplace Flow
Erin Longmoon’s mission in life is to eradicate toxic workplaces. She believes that everyone deserves to love their job and feel like they are contributing to a greater purpose. As the owner of Zephyr Recruiting LLC, she accomplishes this mission by matching great small businesses with their UNIQUE FIT™ employees. Erin dreams of changing …
How to talk about race and racism in the workplace (and why you should!)
This is a guest blog post by Traci Baxley While racism is not new, there is undoubtedly a resurge in energy around the discussions of historical and systemic race issues in the general public. The senseless deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor have centered the debate of racism in all of our …
Don’t lose sight of your long term goals/success
We hope you, your company, and your family are coping well and managing this new state in which we find ourselves. All over the world, we are using this time to stop, breathe, and make some choices. As a business owner, you have a lot going on, and if you are like me, making choices, …
Maintaining Culture in a Virtual World
During this COVID-19 crisis, we have seen so many people going to work virtually for the first time. It has been the topic of numerous articles, webinars, and panel discussions. What is often missing from the discussion is how to maintain and foster your team connection while working virtually. We, at Zephyr Connects® LLC, have …
How your company’s Core Values can help you find the UNIQUE FIT™ employees
Business Core Values provide direction, focus, connect us with clients, and help us find the RIGHT FIT employees to accomplish our business goals.
Firing with Compassion
What do you do if you have a team member who has not grown with your company or who is no longer a good fit? Do you know you should let them go, but you haven’t yet because they rely on you to put food on the table, or to pay their mortgage? That is a complicated and sensitive position to be in, but there are things you can do to let them go in a way that is caring and supportive. Firing with compassion is possible.
Recruit the Employee You’ve Always Wanted with the Culture Technique (GMAP Podcast)
Your UNIQUE FIT™ employee is out there… the challenge is finding them. Do you know what they look like? What they want? Where they are looking? Do you know what you want or need? While you are sitting here asking yourself these questions, is your UNIQUE FIT™ employee interviewing with your competition? At Zephyr Connects® …