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What should you look for when hiring a good bookkeeper for your business? Hiring the most bookkeeping experience you can afford is only one of the tips that Steve…
Do you define a manager only by the tasks for which they are responsible? Steve explains that HOW a great manager accomplishes tasks with their team is far more important than the tasks themselves. A good manager employs servant leadership to encourage and orchestrate the tasks completed by the team.
Steve explains how auditioning can work for your business by ask each of them to "audition" with a small project. This gives you tremendous insight into how each candidate…
Your employees are important pieces of the puzzle that make up your business. Help your employees to discover and work within their strengths instead of forcing them to fit where it doesn't belong.
Steve explains why it is prudent and important to select a Manager to lead your LLC when there are several members vs. a Member-managed LLC. Unless your LLC is owned by only one Member, a Manager-led LLC is your best choice. Discover why...
Run of the mill recruiting brings you a LOT of unqualified applicants. Before you invest your time and money screening those applicants - reviewing applications, paying for drug screens and background checks - why not consider charging an application fee to prospective employees? You might find that those who are unqualified won't pay the fee and you're left with a smaller, more qualified pool of applicants to choose from.
Explore the different ways to lead and collaborate with the three different types of employees that exist within your workforce.
Learn how to ask questions that will help you understand the character and attitude of the person you are interviewing.
Think about KPI's - the two or three actions that will indicate success - when communicating expectations to an employee.
Clearly communicated expectations offer the keys to avoiding most relationship problems with both clients and employees.
Identify, communicate, and reward two or three actions - key predictive indicators - that an employee must take to be successful.
Focus on your employees' strengths and determine how to use those strengths to improve your business.
Family members as employees must bring real value and receive a fair wage - just like any other employee.
Here are 40 interview questions that will give you insight into 20 character traits. Find the character traits you are looking to hire below.
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Employees often fire themselves. Setting aside the employee who deserves to be terminated for cause –theft, sexual harassment, drunkenness, and so on…
Small business owners occasionally have an obligation - in the law, in good business practice, and in good faith - to fire employees. There is no simple way to fire an employee - no way to do it without emotion or lasting memories.
When interviewing candidates for employment there are a few job interview questions and techniques that are vital to remember. This article looks at how to interview to get the very best employees.
Recruiting employees is not that hard. Finding the absolute best employees, well that is another story. Seems the old standards of character are hard to find in our culture today.
One hire or fire, more or less, in a business with 250 employees does not have the impact it does on a business with five employees.
For me, a living wage has nothing to do with government mandates or research regarding minimum wages, fair wages, the poverty line, or even the economic needs…
Would you agree that past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior? And if so, how do we as small business employers…
Despite the resources we have gathered here, our American Heroes - service men and women - often find it difficult to find placement upon their return (in fact, NBC reports 12% unemployment in this group).
Employee medical insurance benefits often complicate things for small business owners, and that fact is unlikely to change.
Recruiting employees is not that hard. Finding the absolute best employees, well that is another story. Seems the old standards of character are hard to find in our culture today.
Part of running any successful business is conducting an employee performance review. These reviews benefit both the company and the employees and can help determine pay increases or reductions.
Running any business is tough enough, but involving family members can make it even more challenging. Unfortunately, if family members are drawn in…
If you are looking for an alternative to your current HR data management software, workday.com just might be the answer.
Are dependable employees myth or legend? Small business owners tell me that they are desperate for dependable employees.
Do incentives really motivate increased productivity? Do rewards guarantee repeated behavior?
Ok. so you are a small business owner and not a job seeker, so you may wonder "why this post?".
Health insurance benefits for your employees and yourself are both a blessing and a curse. It's become more complicated with health care…
Small business hiring is surging! Truly, the news is improving. Even if you only want to add one new person to your team…
There are some small signs of the recession residing a bit. NOT big signs, but for some of you, you may want to hire a few additional…
It is certainly an employers world right now with unemployment at 10%. But that doesn't mean you…
t's been an employer's world for awhile now. Employee retention, especially of key talent, has…
So you have a "problem child". No business is without one. We all make hiring errors. Or you didn't make a hiring error, but your employee's…
I was recently speaking with a new acquaintance at a dinner party who just filed bankruptcy because the landscaping business…
Along with employee salaries, employee benefits are a significant portion of an overall company budget.
In yesterday's post, we discussed Dan Pink's TED speech and how social science research indicates that traditional methods of employee motivation are not based on fact and simply…
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."- Pat Riley"If you do this, then you get that" is a contingent motivator. Dan Pink, in his funny and enlightening piece for the TED…
When I am asked to explain what coaching is all about I will often refer back to the concept of apprenticeships. Today we focus almost solely on lecture-based education and very little on apprenticeship "hands-on" learning…
Absolutely no business owner wants to look into the eyes of an employee when they are about to lay them off. If you've been through this, you know and with the current economic climate, you are certainly not alone.
The economy has us all a little worried, right? We're all trying to do the best we can with what we've got, especially when people aren't spending money like they used to.
You are a small business owner with a thousand things on your mind and tasks to mark off your "to do" list. Like a gnat buzzing in your ear, you know you need to deal with a technician…
Employee motivation is a challenging and complex issue. Why shouldn't employees be skeptical about investing their future in a single endeavor?
The best people to hire are those who have a combination of character, attitude, and skills. As we all know, it's hard to find anyone with that perfect mix.
A word of advice when dealing with employees: expect success, allow failure! If you allow employees the authority and responsibility to carry out many of the activities that are necessary…
Here is a quote from a short book that I am writing on the lost art of motivating employees:"The best people to hire are those who have a combination of character, attitude, and skills.
Every small business needs an employee motivation plan. Let's face it, even as the owner of the business we struggle with motivation from time to time.
Your employees are a big part of the success or failure of your business. Knowing how to motivate employees is a key to that success.
Part of running any successful business is conducting an employee performance appraisals. These reviews benefit both the company…
In today's marketplace employee retention is absolutely vital for success of a small business. The number of high quality employees seems to dwindle by the day.
Discover how paying a livable wage to your employees helps attract and retain great employees while supporting your business strategy.