Balancing structure and flexibility is really important because I guess from my perspective, I am not a micromanager. I want my people to be educated and have the knowledge and the skills to be able to do their job. I want to then give them their tasks and then I want them to be able...
A CFO saying, “you know, what if we train them and they leave?” And the CEO came back, “what if we didn’t train them and they stay?” That leads me to someone years ago that I worked with who said, “I would love to have an individual put on their resume that they worked for...
Training employees is critical and you want them, you don’t want them to fall into a rut because to be honest, when someone is in a rut like that, that’s when mistakes happen. You want to constantly be challenging their mind so that they’re always seeing new opportunities, new ways to do things, new technology,...
The world is evolving. We have, as I said earlier, artificial intelligence. What we need to do is we need to determine what our skills are right now, where are we going in the future, what are our needs going to be, and then what do we do to get those new skills that we...
Well, mental health is part of the health care benefit. That’s a law. So, when you talk about, you know, are we going to offer that or not, if you offer a medical plan, mental health is treated just like any other illness. So, offering that medical plan would be the way to offer mental...
I think we need to promote and educate our employees on their future. For example, I also promote having employees get involved in a simple IRA plan or 401k plan. I always say even if I touch one 20-year-old to get enrolled in a program like that, they will be set for life because if...
So the traditional benefits are people are expecting their medical dental vision. In this day and age, with the demands and the needs of individuals, they’re changing. There’s what’s called cafeteria plans, meaning that you offer a variety of benefits to an employee. There’s a dollar limit that you may set and say, these are...
How does an organization survey its customers to see if they are truly appearing to be what their vision and mission is? I would use a third party to do a survey and ask, you know, have that third party who knows what they’re doing, ask the right questions to see if that company is...
We do meet every week on Zoom. We, it could be Teams, it could be whatever virtually. Our meeting is scheduled every Thursday from 8:30 AM to 10 AM. It’s a 90-minute meeting that has a format. We do talk about, you know, the check-in we ask personally, what’s going on in your life for...
We just started this year, we had our annual meeting for our plans for 2024 and we now each week we have a weekly meeting with our staff and the person and we alternate who runs the meetings and the person that runs the meeting has to take one of our core values and read...
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