Entrepreneur Skills

Job security: how to boost your team’s confidence in the future – and why work stability matters

Job security: how to boost your team’s confidence in the future – and why work stability matters

How secure we feel in our jobs has a huge impact on how happy we are at work and how long we’ll stay there. With so much riding on the income we make from our jobs – food and shelter among them – no one looks forward to the day they’re told they no longer have a job. But did you know only 20% of workers feel truly secure in their jobs1?

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Creative problem solving: 6 steps to improve yours

Creative problem solving: 6 steps to improve yours

Creative problem solving, sometimes called CPS, is a proven method for approaching a problem or a challenge in an imaginative and innovative way. It helps you redefine the problems and opportunities you face, come up with new, innovative responses and solutions, and then take action. The creative problem solving approach comes from the work of Alex Osborn in the 1940s, which was then subsequently nurtured at Buffalo State University. It's one of the most tangible problem solving approaches out there today; you can view it almost as a mix of creative thinking and critical thinking.

Ted Bauer