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You need to have employee buy-in when you develop your mission and your vision. And owners, management, those folks that have the decision-making power to do that really need to have the feedback from the people. It needs to be communicated. It’s not just, here’s your handbook, here’s our mission, it’s up on the wall....

You need to have a mission statement that’s meaningful and that accomplishes what you want to be. Who do you want to be? What is your mission in your organization? You know, what is your vision? Where do you want to be five years from now? That needs to be communicated in what you really...

If we don’t start from the top, then the culture is going to happen however the people want to run it. So, management needs to determine how do we want, do we want people to feel like we’re being micromanaged and we’re watching the clock, or do we want a culture where everybody knows your...

Employer branding when it comes to employment is critical. Now the small, again, I cater my business to the small business owner, so they can’t do the branding that the big guys do. Okay. I, I’m going to mention companies like Google, companies like Southwest Airlines, you know, here in South Florida, there are a...

I can see that from a technological perspective, there are a lot of things now that are occurring with, with technology and how jobs are changing. For example, let me use the writer’s strike that we just ended, okay? Writers are upset because now we’re using artificial intelligence. It’s the way of the future. It...

When someone is exempt and an employer will say to me, “yeah, but they come in late or, you know, they leave early.” Well, are they getting the job done? If they’re getting the job done, then are you not giving them enough work? Because your expectation is that they work more than 40 hours...

Well, the trends that I’m seeing are the whole, the controversy between working remotely and requiring individuals to come into the office. We all are familiar with what’s gone on the last three years with COVID. People were working from home and there are people now who want to continue to work from home and...

There are not many people out there that look after the little guy. And I want to be that company. I named that company People First for a reason. I want to protect the little guy because they can’t necessarily afford to have somebody on staff or in their organization that, that could bankrupt them....

We’ve become quite a litigious society and so you want to make sure that, you know, I always say to business owners, you want to be able to sleep at night. You don’t want to wonder, did I do the right thing? Who’s going to come after me tomorrow? And I’m not saying if you...