People First

Proud Papas expecting a bundle of joy. Listen to me. So this is a case where I got a call from an employee who was concerned because he had put in for paternity leave. He wanted to let his wife be home for 12 weeks first, and then he would be home the second 12...

Did the stork just deliver a big HR problem to you? Oh, I had a client the other day, the poor thing. They had an employee who they were having issues with discipline. They didn’t take any action, and I always say, hire slow, fire fast. They did not take any action and now the...

Do you have an attitude for gratitude? I am now celebrating 20 years with one of my clients, and they’ve come to me recently and asked “How can we recognize our employees for either a good job that they’ve performed or that they’ve been with me, they’ve been loyal, they’ve been dedicated.” Now you obviously...

Buddy, it ain’t over till the paperwork’s done. I just spoke to a new client. We, they just joined us and it’s funny, the first thing they said was, well, we know we we’re gonna ask them for their IDs. And we’re like, no, no, no. That’s not what you do first. You don’t ask...

It is 2025, are you still writing paychecks to your employees? We met with a new client who had been paying their employees. They calculated payroll themselves and cut paper checks and handed the checks out, and many of their employees were asking for direct deposits, and that’s very common, very easy to do when...

Thinking of paying employee bonuses don’t fall into this trap. I was meeting with a client the other day and they were talking about bonuses, and they were just gonna be cutting checks, and we explained to them that bonuses are, you’re required to run those through payroll, and you’re not allowed to just pay...

Outsource bookkeepers can handle accounts payable and accounts receivable with the technology we have today. Yes, periodically you may see a check come in. I know I have a few clients that we do receive payments for them, but they’re few and far between because people are happy to be able to like click on...

So you need to, you know, you’ve been told we’ve got to reduce your budget and HR and how can you do that? Great way to reduce your budget, your HR budget is to outsource HR. Even if you have somebody in house who’s doing some of the HR, they may not be able to...

Key components to successful employee training and development. First of all, you need to know what the requirements are. With job descriptions come the specifications. That tells you what the individual needs to have as far as skills to do the job. So with that, you then can successfully work with the individual to determine...