PLATINUM GROUP NEWS & VIEWS

As the hub of a successful company, your human resources (HR) team is responsible for a variety of tasks that keep your business running smoothly. Tasks like payroll and training fall to HR. This group is also in charge of guiding the company’s culture and managing the requests of individual...

Whatever your goal, whether in life or in business, your odds of achieving it increase dramatically if you have a plan. That’s the case whether you want to learn another language, lose weight or increase your company’s profitability.

Like ‘em or hate ‘em, trade tariffs are part of the business equation and have been since 1789. Tariffs have been both a source of revenue for the government — at one time representing 85 to 90% of all federal revenues — and as a negotiating tool for opening foreign markets to U.S. exports. But for...

Skilled, empowered, and hard-working employees are the most important resource for any progressive company. Exceptional employees are valuable on an individual level, but when they can create synergy as a high performing team, then the organization reaps the greatest possible benefits.

The CEO position is a vital component of the management hierarchy in most successful companies. CEOs set the tone and course of their organizations in a number of critical areas, such as culture, values, branding, business strategy, and human resources.

Giving feedback might be one of the most difficult things that managers have to do regularly, but providing useful and constructive information about your employees’ performance is an absolutely essential part of fostering a positive company culture. It’s important for your employees to know that...