The Affordable Care Act will help small businesses by lowering premium cost growth and increasing access to quality, affordable health insurance. Depending on whether you’re a small employer or a larger employer, different provisions of the Affordable Care Act may apply to you as described below.
Read more: Top Three Things Small Businesses Should Know About the Affordable Care Act
I learned something new recently. From Wikipedia:
Kintsugi (Japanese: golden joinery) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold. Kintsugi may have originated when shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent a damaged Chinese tea bowl back to China for repairs in the late 15th century.
Employee performance reviews are hard, aren't they? Much fuss is made about them--by senior management, by HR, by Legal, and, of course, by the employee receiving the review. Get over it. That's what separates managers from non-managers.
Read more: It's Hard to Write a Good Employee Performance Evaluation. Get Over It.
Every day I see companies make short-term decisions and decide that they will not hire the intern or the college student etc.
How did they get into that place?
I understand all to well the pressures on business. My role as a business, human resource architect of solutions that turns around business to profitability is to balance both the short term without sacrificing the long term.
Read more: Long-term strategies and short-term operational excellence.
This is the time of year when children of all ages create a list for Santa. These lists consist of “wants” and “nice to haves” but not always “what’s really needed.”
This year I’ve created a list of “what’s really needed” for every owner and leader. These items are for those who are already successful and wish to maintain that success; for those that desire more success; and for those who want their employees, vendors and clients to be affiliated with a dynamic and growing organization.
