Posts Tagged ‘Employees’
Retirement Plans for the Small Business Owner: The SEP Plan
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plans can provide a significant source of income at retirement by allowing employers to set aside money in retirement accounts for themselves and their employees. A SEP does not have the start-up and operating costs of a conventional retirement plan and allows for a contribution of up to 25 percent of each employee’s pay.
Read More 6 Pros and Cons of Hiring Remote Workers
Hiring virtual employees isn’t all cheap labor and round-the-clock productivity—despite what popular books like “The 4-Hour Work Week” would have you believe. Doing your due diligence will help you plan appropriately so you can avoid some of the common pitfalls associated with taking on remote workers.
Read More How to Assess Your Organizational Leaders and Their Capacity to Lead
Rarely is a great leader born. Developing leadership capacity and the “must have” leadership characteristics does not happen by accident. Organizations cannot sit back and hope leaders develop.
Read More How to Keep the Office Movin’ and Shakin’ During Slow Times
One of the best ways to gain one more customer is to keep your employees happy: your people who deal directly with the people. Here are three suggestions to keep everyone in the office enthusiastic in those less-than-exciting times of the year.
Read More 4 Ways to Map Your Office Design to Your Company Culture
If you have office space, you can look for ways to optimize it to support the type of culture you want to have—even if you’re a small-business owner. Here are some things you can try to use your office space to support and maintain your culture.
Read More 5 Ways Small Businesses Can Attract and Retain Talent
It’s an oft-cited cliché, but the success of a business and a small business in particular depends very much on the talent and efforts of its people. It is both the individual stars and the solid working relationships between those…
Read More Core Values Are the Key to Customer Service
Core values affect the customer service experience—for external customers as well as internal customers (employees). They can attract customers to do business with you, and be a motivating factor for employees to enjoy their work and do it well.
Read More Building the Right Team
Hiring the right employees does not only help mitigate the risk of having to replace them down the road. It fosters a culture of high-level thinking and productivity and serves as the cornerstone of a strong office environment.
Read More Retirement Plans for the Small Business Owner: The SIMPLE Plan
Since there are so many people setting up individual LLC’s or home based side businesses, you need to keep a close eye out this time of year for setting up one kind of retirement plan, a SIMPLE IRA. The deadlines are just around the corner in the next few weeks, so could this be the right type of retirement plan for you?
Read More Do You Get the Most from Your Workers?
Potential is a free-flowing thing. So is passion. But job profiles limit both. While they certainly are useful, job profiles should not be so rigid as to discourage employees from taking an interest in anything else. If an employee displays great enthusiasm in their role, chances are…
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