Don’t go without.

Posted on May 5, 2009. Filed under: Employee Performance, Employee Relations, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Law, Management Minute, Policy, staffing, Using Human Resources | Tags: , , , , , , |

Scenario- You own a business where you entrust your employees with confidential documents or property of others. One of your clients comes to you one day and says they have found unauthorized charges on a company credit card that had been in a desk drawer to which your employees had access. They are understandably upset [...]

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Shopping is a skill

Posted on May 1, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, HR, Human Resources, Incentivizing/Incentives, Managing to Strengths, Mandy Cooley, staffing, This Guy, Uncategorized, Using Human Resources | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I am not lacking in skill: for example, I am good at finding deals!  Shopping is a skill of mine…  Not necessarily a skill my husband likes me to hone, but one that is good for my family (and my wardrobe). We recently acquired a new client who had managers with a lot of skills, [...]

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Manners

Posted on March 23, 2009. Filed under: HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Policy, staffing, This Guy, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Where are our manners? Growing up in an environment where it was required to address people as yes ma’am and no sir and to always respect my elders, I have always modeled my business practices and personal behavior as an adult around this embedded behavior from my upbringing. With this conservative upbringing it has always [...]

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Being Open in Tough Financial Times

Posted on March 17, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Manuals, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, Finance, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Policy, staffing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

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 [...]

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What makes a good consultant?

Posted on December 9, 2008. Filed under: At Will, Employee Relations, Finance, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Management Minute, marketing, Policy, recruiting, staffing, Team, This Guy, Uncategorized, Using Human Resources | Tags: , , , , , |

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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