EMPLOYEE CONDUCT AND THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT by Don Phin Most employees with disabilities can maintain acceptable conduct in the workplace. However, on occasion, some employee...

Whether children or adults, people will live up to others' expectations of them. What are your employee evaluations telling your employees? How are these appraisals affecting their performance? In this document, Don Phin examines how employees react to performance evaluations, personally and professionally.

EMPLOYMENT LAW: CLEARING THE MINEFIELDS by Donald Phin The way I look at it, most of today's employment lawyers (like most other professionals) do a poor job of working on their business...

EXCELLENCE: TURN UP THE HEAT! by Don Phin How to transform your agency from good to great. Greatness an...

At least 30,000 attorneys in the U.S. claim that they're practicing employment law. Statistically speaking, what holds true for any profession is true for employment lawyers: Half are above average and half are below average. How do you distinguish one from the other? How can you find out which lawyers or firms are in the top 5%? Don Phin discusses the questions you should be asking.

FIVE STEPS TO HIRING SUCCESS by Don Phin Many business owners struggle with the problem of hiring employees who care about the company. You can achieve this goal by following five ...

FRIENDLY COMPETITION by Don Phin In his book No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn stresses that competition in an organization can become destructive unless it results in ...

GUIDELINES FOR FIRING EMPLOYEES by Don Phin When employers ask if they can terminate employees, theyre really asking, If I fire them, can they sue me? Before y...

HELP YOUR EMPLOYEES HELP THEMSELVES by Don Phin More and more employers are discovering the advantages of helping employees through todays rough times. Don Phin explains...

Finding out if someone is truthful is an art, not a science. The best truth-detecting machine on the market, the polygraph, is illegal in the hiring process. Imagine if there were an invention that could detect the truth with 100% accuracy, as predicted by futurist James Halperin in The Truth Machine.