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Use Your Employee Handbook to Protect Yourself and Your Employees

Employee Management, Human Resources / danielle

Our clients operate all different kinds of businesses, from medical practices, to marketing firms, to small manufacturers. It’s amazing that many of these businesses operate without an employee handbook, or if they do have a handbook, it’s been adapted from a cheap online template that really doesn’t protect them. Each Business Has Unique Needs Every […]

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Good Accounting Heads off Employee Fraud

Accounting / danielle

Here’s a challenge that faces all businesses, especially small to midsized businesses, that spans both accounting and human resources – employee fraud. Small and midsized businesses seem to be more susceptible to fraud and theft, partially because there is a greater degree of trust, but also smaller organizations don’t tend to implement the systems they

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Outsourcing Your Human Resources Needs

Human Resources / danielle

Consider your business’ “human resource” needs; compliance requirements, personnel issues, benefits management, recruiting: are you large enough to warrant a full-time human resources manager? If you are like most midsized companies, the answer is probably “no”. But the requirements and issues exist regardless of your size, and there are definitely risks associated with handling them

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Staffing Your Medical Office to Build a Thriving Practice

Business Strategy / danielle

Staffing for medical offices requires some unique considerations due to the industry’s unique business challenges. We work with a number of medical practices, because too often the physician owners, whose primary mission is quality patient care, loose sight of the need to treat their practice as a business. As with most entrepreneurial operations, doctors tend

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Avoiding the “Bad Hire”

Human Resources, Recruitment / danielle

It’s common in all businesses, especially small and midsized operations, for managers and business owners keep unwanted staff on too long for all the wrong reasons. They don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, or deal with the hassle of replacing them, or they may be worried about a lawsuit. The truth is that too often

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Are Your Policies and Procedures a Barrier To Growing Your Company?

Employee Management, Human Resources / danielle

Introduction Are you interested in growing your business while enhancing your employee’s ability to deliver consistent, high caliber service without dramatically increasing the burden of employee management responsibilities on you? If so, we recommend you take several minutes to read on and acquaint yourself with the importance and benefits of written, well-defined Policies & Procedures!

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4 Steps to Creating a Career Development Plan

Employee Management, Human Resources / danielle

Why do I need a Career Development Plan for my employees? A Career Development Plan allows you to develop your workforce in a way that truly enhances the productivity of your company. Successful workforce planning is not a matter of filling seats with bodies to complete tasks; it is a careful exercise in which company

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Keystone to Success

Business Strategy / danielle

Introduction As the leader of your organization, you recognize that there are many factors to success. A great product, competent employees, and strategic vision, for example, are all part of your big picture. But there’s another, less tangible element that’s critical, whether you’re trying to enhance your company culture or hit double-digit growth numbers: accountability.

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Employee Performance Measurement

Employee Management, Human Resources / danielle

Why It Matters During the last twenty years, many business owners and managers have engaged me to help tackle challenges their companies were facing. In some instances, the hurdles involved tough new competition, or questions about financial management. But the most common issue was far less obvious, and most of my clients were surprised to

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Startups Should Rent Interim CFOs Instead of Hire

CFO Strategy, Startups / danielle

Print this article or save it as a PDF We have worked with many small to mid-sized Bay Area companies over the last decade, from struggling momand-pop shops to fledgling start-ups that are clearly on their way to success and profitability. What we have observed is that in almost all these cases they often start

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