PHOTOS: Representatives from Valdosta City Schools, Lowndes County Schools and the Community Partners in Education Advisory Council recently visited Hester & Morris Orthodontics for the presentation of the CPIE Community Partner of the Decade Award…
Business > Show Employees You’re Willing to Hear…
Harvard Business Review: Managers are often more accustomed to speaking than listening, but there are times when you need to shift gears and really hear your employees out. When you’re having a conversation, show that…
Business > The Bright Side of Negative Thinking
An Interview with Author Gabrielle Oettingen At least since 1952, when Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking was published, Americans have been inundated with the notion that the path to success can be smoothed…
Savannah > Is a Volvo Plant Coming?
SAVANNAH -- Timber crews and logging trucks have been massaging the outskirts of a forested tract in southeast Georgia for weeks, leaving curious neighbors wondering what might be coming to their working-class area. The answer came…
Business > Clean Water Act Changes
[caption id="attachment_23455" align="alignnone" width="630"] Entrepreneur Magazine[/caption] Entrepreneur Magazine When we’ve watched our elected officials and pundits go hammer and tong over laws in recent years, the documents being debated have usually been hundreds or thousands…
Bush > Trusted IRA’s
Stacy Bush, Valdosta Today Finance Contributor In a typical IRA, your beneficiary takes control of the IRA assets upon your death. There's nothing to stop your beneficiary from withdrawing all or part of the IRA…
Unemployment > Metro Valdosta’s Jobless Rate at 6.2%
ATLANTA -- The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Valdosta’s unemployment rate for March was 6.2 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 6.4 percent in February. The rate in March 2014…
Business > Measure Qualitative Performance in Employees
Harvard Business Review Performance reviews often require you to assess an employee’s performance on some qualitative aspects of the job. To do this objectively, focus on measuring behaviors. Aside from questions that are specific to…
Business > No, That Meeting could not have…
Harvard Business Review We’ve all been there. We’re sitting in back-to-back hour-long informational meetings. We try to sit attentively as waves of information are poured over us in report after report. Eventually, we realize the…