People First

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...

It’s, it’s really tough to manage a multi generational workforce and I would say that the, is to understand the differences and what the expectations are for each of those generations. You can be successful having a baby boomer with a Gen Z, but understanding what their needs are and being able as an organization...

I really, truly, I know people say you can get meetings to death, but I really believe that there needs to be structure that you need to have established set time each week that you get together with your team and communicate. You talk about what you’re struggling with. How can I help you? I...

Latest trends in benefits. Let’s talk about the benefits side of it. People are looking for health care, affordable health care. I know myself, I always feel like I should encourage people to look into long term care when they’re younger and it’s affordable. Because as you get older, you can’t afford it and more...

How do you handle employee performance management? That’s that’s an interesting question. A lot of people don’t believe in those annual performance reviews. It’s constant communication, letting people know where they’re stand, where they stand on going. I still like to have that conversation annually with my staff. Because I feel it’s important to tie...

An organization needs to know what its attrition rate is and understand what the norm is for their industry because there’s different attrition rates for different industries. For example, industries that employ first time workers are going to have like fast food chains. Their attrition rate is over 100%. I teach HR, and when I...

Oh my goodness, using data and analytics to drive HR decisions,that’s, I guess I’m an analytical person, but, that’s how you make your decisions. You determine what your costs are, what your labor costs are, what your cost of benefits are, and you analyze that to determine what benefits can we offer within our budget....