Human Resources

Healthy Employees Are No Small Business Feat

One challenge that can oftentimes be overlooked on the small business front is keeping your employees fit and healthy for work. Healthy and happy employees tend to be better workers when all is said and done.

Are Job Boards the Route to Take in Hiring Help?

Job boards offer many benefits to small businesses seeking to taking in help, as well as benefits to employees look for work. Here are some reasons why job boards may be the answer to your hiring needs, along with another look at why they may not be.

Rising Health Insurance Costs Are No Small Matter

Health insurance costs are rising and that trend is expected to continue in 2015. This fact is true not only for the individual looking for health insurance coverage but for the small business that must insure its employees. Such businesses must work to remain competitive and keep costs down.

Is Your Health Insurance Expected to Spike in 2015?

As the New Year’s bells toll—are your resolutions made? What about your responsibilities if you’re a small business owner? Are your budgets set, changes made, numbers calculated?

Dealing with Staff Discipline Issues

The one thing that can mar your management efforts are discipline issues from your employees. You can be the best manager in the world, but sometimes your staff will still act out. How you handle it will determine how much these issues affect your business.

Health Insurance Should Be Your Small Business Policy

Health insurance may not be the most important consideration for jobseekers, but it will have a greater effect on their job decisions because of the implementation of Obamacare.

The Importance of Hiring the Right Teammates: Our 3-Step Process

Your team is critical. Not only do you spend more time with them at your fast-growing company than you do with your own family, but a very large part of your success will depend on the quality and mindset of these individuals.

Stealing Time

It’s a big issue within any company. With easy access to Internet shopping, games, social networks and more, employees are able to find many ways to focus on personal issues while at work, detracting from productivity and demonstrating a disrespect for the time paid for by their employer.

Ready for Your First Employee?

Small businesses usually start-off as a one-man show. When you are the owner you do everything from emptying the trash to collecting the cash. As your business grows, however, it can reach a point where the volume of work is overwhelming.

“Over-Welcome” Your New Employees

A CEO friend of mine who manages her one hundred person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomes new employees as she grows her firm. Strike that. She over-welcomes her new employees.

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