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Why You Should Invest in Your Employees

These days’ workers are looking for more than traditional benefits, vacation time and a one hour lunch break. They want to be engaged, challenged and feel like the company that they give so much of themselves to will give more than a paycheck. Since employee training and team building events are less expensive than employee…

The Importance of Face-to-Face Communication

Recently, all of us at Brightwing collaboratively worked on our new Cultural Standards that we recently unveiled – with one of those standards being ‘Build Relationships for Life’. And part of the ‘Build Relationships for Life’ standard is to communicate face-to-face when possible. With the increasing presence of electronic gadgets and social media, which are…

A Case for Continuous Learning in the Workplace

There’s something about spring time…the days are longer and brighter. The songs of the birds in the morning are a little louder. People start to shed their heavy sweaters in favor of airy cottons in perky colors. All of those things put a little more bounce in your step as the winter (at least in…

How to Stay Creative in the Workplace

Staying creative in the workplace can be challenging, even if you work in a creative environment all day long. I was recently asked in a marketing meeting what websites, books or blogs I read for inspiration and creativity and my list wasn’t that long, in fact it was downright pathetic. I never made time for…

Dead Car Battery Confirms Brightwing Truly Is a Cool Place to Work

Last Thursday night I went to the Crain’s Detroit award ceremony for the “Coolest Place to Work” at the Henry Ford Museum and I can tell you that being outside of the office setting with people from Brightwing was a real blast. We were one of 4 companies featured in the “highlights” video that Crain’s…

The Difference between Good and Bad Bosses

“Mmm, yeah, I’m going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too” – Bill Lumbergh Your boss may not be as bad as Bill Lumbergh from the movie Office Space, but as another Boss’s Day comes and goes, although the 2011 holiday fell on a Sunday (is this a…

Finding Success in Your Company Name Change

After more than 30 successful years, what was “Resource: The Smart Workforce Solutions Company” is now “Brightwing.” And surprisingly, although we only changed our name it feels like a different place around here. What is in a name? What if you could have picked your name? Would you have kept the one you have worn for…

Michigan Business and Professional Association Grants Brightwing Recognition as One of the “101 Best and Brightest Places to Work”

Honor Comes on the Heels of Crain’s Detroit Business “Cool Places to Work” Award, Inc. Magazine “Top Small Company Workplace” Award and Dallas Business Journal “Best Place to Work” Award TROY, Mich. – August 18, 2011 – Troy, Mich.-based Brightwing, the staffing and training company that elevates human performance, has been recognized as one of…

How to Use a Mentor System

No matter how confident a person may seem, they are still likely to be a little overwhelmed when starting a position. A lot is placed on the shoulders of new employees. They have to get to know a fresh office with new faces as well as get into a routine for their workload. It’s almost…

How to Get the Most out of Meetings

We all remember the movie Ocean’s Eleven. Most of us wanted to be involved in a heist after. The movie just made it seem so cool with all the nifty ideas that were utilized to be successful. Heists are bad, and yet we were rooting for the team. Well, what made the eleven people so…

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