This series about leadership continues with this story that was shared by another local business owner. Here we see the importance of basic soft skills in developing and hiring our work force. The owner of this particular business has several locat ...

I recently found myself talking with a friend of my father’s from his younger days and was reminded that this gentleman, along with his family, were also small business owners. We often visited their family furniture store and I still do when I am nearby ...

Many of us practice the habit of spring cleaning in our homes. For some, it becomes an annual ritual with specific tasks and time frames. One late relative washed the walls every spring. As I look back, I now realize this was probably required due to all ...

In 2016, many of us reviewed our workforce to ensure compliance with a Department of Labor proposal which would have substantially increased the minimum salary threshold for a job to be considered exempt from overtime pay. After much work by HR teams acr ...

My leadership blog for this month is titled “Leading with heart without breaking one”. We are hearing a lot more about ‘leading with heart’. In celebration of heart healthy February, this blog is about a topic I hear too often. When an employee app ...

My second leadership blog this month, “Leading with heart without breaking one”, is a follow up to the previous one as the story continues beginning with a recap. I was approached by an employee who needed to see me about concerns with her job respons ...

I recently responded to callers of a human resources hotline. A business leader from a small manufacturing company called with a question from an employee who resigned early in the year. This employee resigned from his job in March and wanted to be ...

When I began to consider hanging my shingle for a human resources consulting practice, I researched different ways of organizing a business. One organization sponsored a half-day open house where they talked about all the different areas of starting a bu ...

When you hire in a small business or nonprofit, whom do you hire? Friends? People in your network? Or, friends of the people who all ready work for you? Do you find this approach results in qualified staff? This next story is all too real in the sm ...