Finance
Would Your Employee Manual Pass the Test?
What does your employee manual say? Having an inaccurate manual is almost as bad, if not worse, than no manual at all. If you have policies that are not accurate to your business you may be holding your business accountable to things that you will have a hard time fulfilling and at very least may [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why care about HR?
No reason, well except for the fact that your company can’t run without good employees. Well I guess it can but it would only be a matter of time before you ran yourself into the ground and your business would only get so big before it outgrew what you alone are capable of doing. If [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Improving Employee Performance
You would think that taking care of performance issues in the workplace would be pretty easy considering we are all adults, but as we all know it is not. Some people just don’t like any type of conflict and if you, as a business owner, are one of those people; you run the risk of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Being Open in Tough Financial Times
In today’s tough economic times many small business owners are faced with the need to tighten up and downsize their employment force in order to stay fiscally sound, or at least somewhat fiscally sound. As we have had clients come to us on how to best communicate this to their employees we always say the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) Make It Easier For You To Save
We are excited to share with our readers some guest posts from clients, friends, and collegues. We hope you find value in what they share. Below is a post from our collegue, Bob Hutt, of The Access Companies. A Flexible Spending Account is an easy-to-use benefit that allows you to contribute before-tax dollars towards health and dependent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Five Payroll Red Flags
We are excited to share with our readers some guest posts from clients, friends, and collegues. We hope you find value in what they share. Below is a post from our collegue, Bob Hutt, of The Access Companies. 5 Payroll Red Flags The following are payroll ”red flags”, which are signals to various regulatory agencies that you’re probably doing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Outsourcing
To piggy back on Mandy’s post from yesterday I wanted to talk about the value of using a consultant and outsourcing some of the functions of your business. We all are good at what we do in our business, that’s why we went in to business in the first place (well that and all the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What makes a good consultant?
As a practicing consultant, I am often asked about what I actually consult. So many businesses have worked with consultants who are pushing a particular agenda – which, in my humble opinion, does not make one a consultant. (Rather, I think that makes one a sales person.) Others have worked with consultants who seem to [...]
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