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Employee Communications: Keep the Rumor Mills at Bay, Boost Performance


By  Margaret Hintz  on  May 11 2012

The childhood game of “Telephone” is a great communications exercise. One person whispers a message into the next person’s ear, who then repeats it to the next person and so on. The game ends with the last person reciting – aloud to the group – a message that can be quite humorous and different from the original.   The same can be true with inter-office communications. What may seem

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Regulators Crack Down on Employee Misclassifications


By  Margaret Hintz; Manager of Human Resources, Insperity  on  Apr 24 2012

Whether to classify an employee as exempt or non-exempt – generally, but not exclusively, salaried or hourly – can be confusing for both new and longtime business owners. What are the differences? Can’t a business simply classify all its employees one way – as exempt, for example? Doing that could eliminate overtime pay and effectively avoid unexpected expenses in today’s tough economic

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Avoid Costly Mistakes by Employing Solid HR Practices


By  Margaret Hintz  on  Mar 22 2012

Businesses face numerous challenges that can threaten their success: poor sales, bad location, increased competition, to name a few. But poor human resources practices can have an equally negative impact on the bottom line. Developing ourselves as vital leaders means no longer neglecting vital tasks such as recruitment, employee relations, and regulatory compliance, which can run head-on into

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Minimize Liabilities with Proper Employee Recordkeeping


By  Margaret Hintz, Insperity Manager of HR Services  on  Feb 17 2012

Busy small business owners have countless tasks on their to-do lists, topped with keeping customers happy and generating new business. Administrative tasks such as employee recordkeeping are often low among the priorities. That is understandable, but overlooking the importance of maintaining crucial employee records can expose a company to great risk. An inability to produce complete

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Optimize Your Company; Grow with the Expertise of a Business Performance Advisor


By  Pat Ryan, Insperity District Manager  on  Feb 9 2012

Entrepreneurs continue to dream and plan despite the lingering effects of one of the worst economic crisis in generations. Indeed, every day new businesses are opening their doors and existing ones are planning an expansion. Along with excitement and expectations, however, are a multitude of potential headaches and worries for most new business owners. How can I hire the best people? Am I

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Better Not Be You; or Your Team


By  Arvind Yadav  on  Jan 28 2012

Introducing: Top Ten, Tips to Become the Worst Sales Person in Your Company Have you ever had sales people who just never seem to make it no matter how hard they try? These sales people are one of the main factors for decline in business. Your sales people are the heart of your company and without good ones you will find it difficult to succeed in selling your products. To train good sales

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Reality Bites


By  Eban Potter   on  Jan 2 2012

Six smart pieces of advice to the young and restless who crave their own business, regardless of the economy.   Thousands of young people have dreams of having their own business, because such a dream is not only a way to fortune, success and honor, but also provides infinite possibilities to realize their personal value and show their intelligent and ambitions. However, desire, longing or

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A Good Entrepreneur


By  Kirk Smith  on  Nov 8 2011

Running a business is like managing your own life toward success and self-actualization. Entrepreneurship takes good organizing and at the same time promoting skills. Self-awareness and self-improvement are the basic steps to get to the top. Prosperous business depends upon how an entrepreneur uses and maximizes his physical, psychological and social skills. But the question is, “Do you have

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Avoid Social Media Meltdown: Create a Strategy to Take Back Control


By  Martha Ciske  on  Sep 14 2011

Everyone said that you and your business needed to be on Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, and every other new social media site or service that has made its debut since then. You linked your webpage and your blog and made sure you had the right apps on your mobile devices to post on the go. You have profiles and pages on multiple services and…. now what?  Losing track of where you and your

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Why Doesn't Your Business Plan Consistently Secure Your Desired Results?


By  Kavita B  on  Sep 14 2011

From small businesses to large corporations, when you render all the challenges and issues facing these economic engines from employees to growth and innovation, the inability to secure desired results or implementation always float to the top as the number one to number three obstacles that prevent business success. As a business owner or management executive, have you ever asked yourself one of

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