What You Need to Know About Developing Your First-Time Managers
You believe you’ve identified the perfect employee to fill a management role at your business. Now what? Unfortunately for many first-time managers the next step is figuring out how to lead or manage people without being provided with formal leadership training. In other words, “winging it.” According to The Ken Blanchard Companies’ First-Time Manager Survey,…
Read MoreHow to Identify Potential Managers Within Your Ranks
If you have a spot open in management it’s tempting to look only to your top performers to fill it. Or maybe it’s time to conduct an annual performance review for your account executive who keeps blowing up her sales goals. She’s been with your organization for three years and is hoping for a promotion.…
Read MoreHow to Protect Your Brand in the Face of Online Employee Reviews
It used to be that you reviewed your employee’s performance. In today’s digitally connected culture, employees now get to review you. Current, potential, and former employees have countless platforms on which to share their good and bad experiences with your workplace. Your potential hires are likely reading any number of employment sites such as Indeed,…
Read MoreOne Size Does Not Fit All: How to Know if Your Payroll Partner Can Grow With You
If you have kids, you’ve probably figured out that as your family grows, so grows your vehicles. Maybe you’ve been driving something sleek and sporty but then you learn there are twins on the way and suddenly that minivan you said you’d never buy may be in your driveway sooner than you think. And then…
Read MoreWhen Two Become One: How to Manage Merging Cultures During an M&A
For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about the practical implications of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on payroll and your core HR functions. This week we’ll cover what’s likely the most challenging piece of an M&A to navigate—the blending of two cultures. When Two Become One Mergers are often compared to marriages because in…
Read MoreFour Ways You Can Soften the Impact of an M&A for Your Employees
AOL Buys Time Warner for $162 Billion Exxon-Mobil Merger Not Expected to Raise Prices at Pump Will Whole Foods Benefit From the Amazon Effect? When we read headlines about mergers and acquisitions (M&As), the focus is typically on dollars and cents (billions of dollars, potentially), the impact on the consumer, and projections about the potential…
Read MoreHow M&As Affect Payroll and What You Need to Do About It
Peanut butter and jelly. Mornings and coffee. Summer and air conditioning. Some things are better together. Your business has decided to try a merger and everything is coming together like peas and carrots. The only problem? No one knows who is a pea and who is a carrot and everyone is confused about which processes…
Read MoreWhat You Need To Know About How A New Location Impacts Your Payroll And HR
Do you know how many Starbucks locations there are around the globe? If you guessed around 30,000 locations, you’re correct! (It’s hard to get an exact figure and I assume that’s because they are adding new stores almost daily.) You can buy a cup of, arguably, the world’s most recognized coffee in 78 countries and…
Read MoreCompany Growing Overnight? What You Need to do to Ensure Payroll and HR Keep up
“I wish I were big.” With those five words Josh Baskin goes to bed a 12-year-old boy and wakes up a 30-year-old man (played by Tom Hanks) in the movie, “Big.” While he got what he wished for, his overnight growth came with many challenges— among the first, squeezing into a pair of his adolescent…
Read MoreA Sneak Peek of How we Ensure a Smooth Transition for our New Payroll Clients
Going to the movies can feel like a big commitment. Not only are you investing a couple hours of your precious time but with the average ticket priced at $9, plus popcorn (around $7), soda ($5) and candy ($4), a movie date can quickly turn into a $50 evening. (Bring your kids along and that…
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