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management advice
2 min read | October 28, 2014

Employee Accountability - Is Video Surveillance Going Too Far?

I recently read a post on an industry discussion board about employee accountability. This specific post had to do with weekend shifts and making sure employees were doing what was required. A...
management advice
2 min read | October 21, 2014

Mobile Apps for Your HR Needs

A recent article in Forbes talked about the disruptive technologies that are entering the HR space. One area worth highlighting is that of mobile applications and their increasing usefullness in...
management advice
1 min read | October 15, 2014

SubItUp Software Update Improves Your Efficiency

SubItUp is extremely excited to announce a major software update scheduled for mid-November. Today's announcement is meant to inform our customers of all that is to come and to instruct them of all...
management advice
2 min read | October 10, 2014

Employees Want Mobile Scheduling

Your employees want mobile / online scheduling. Please...enough of the excel spreadsheets!
management advice
2 min read | October 7, 2014

Making Better Use of Your Time

Ever feel like you are being pulled in 17 different directions? I referenced this challenge in a previous post (Focus, Focus, Focus….Hey Look! A Squirrel!) and I am revisiting it as to give it more...
management advice
3 min read | October 3, 2014

Focus Focus Focus...Hey Look A Squirrel

There are so many things to do in your day to day work life. Therefore, there are just as many, if not more, places for you to get distracted or misled. So, how does one keep their eyes on the...
management advice
1 min read | September 30, 2014

5 Common and Uncommon Interview Questions

Have you been on an interview? Have you conducted an interview? No matter which side of the table you are on, there is anxiety involved with what they interview questions will be. I have heard some...
management advice
2 min read | September 23, 2014

Our 5 Favorite Management Blogs

Management is such a broad term. There are differently levels of this topic. Good management practices are important from the top down. The CEO and supervisors alike need to understand what makes...
management advice
2 min read | September 19, 2014

Making A Plan To Achieve A Goal

Our CEO has a quote posted on his computer monitor. The quote is, "A goal without a plan is just a dream." We speak about this concept frequently when we evaluate how we are doing as a company. It is...
management advice
2 min read | September 16, 2014

Employee Management - Reviewing Performance

We have discussed several topics as they pertain to employee management and optimization. None of them, in my opinion, is more important than the employee review. The periodic employee review is...
management advice
3 min read | September 9, 2014

Getting The Most Out of Your Employees

Assembling a quality team is an incredibly long and difficult process. It is all about detail from developing a job requisition, all the way through training each of your new hires. Now that you...
management advice
2 min read | September 5, 2014

Scheduling Student Employees

Many of our customers are colleges and universities.Therefore, they have to manage student employees as their main source of their labor force. Over the past 7 years, we have made updates to our...
management advice
3 min read | September 2, 2014

Training New Employees

One of the most challenging things to do is to assimilate new employees into a company culture and workflow. We, at SubItUp, are no different than all of our customers that utilize our product to...
online management
4 min read | August 12, 2014

The 5 Vague Steps For Project Management

As with any project there are a series of emotions and actions that need to occur to get it off the ground, allow it to grow and most importantly sustain the growth for the long term. I’ve broken the...
employee communication
2 min read | August 1, 2014

The Online Staff Scheduling Formula

More Flexibility = Increased Productivity It’s an equation that doesn’t seem to add up, at first glance. But the reasoning is simple: workers who break out of the set-schedule routine – a system...
online scheduling application
2 min read | July 29, 2014

The Future Of Online Scheduling

To some, it’s difficult to think of a software solution as revolutionary or life-changing. But consider Windows, word processing programs, Photoshop, email clients, and the world’s first Internet...