HR Biz Links: How to Retain Your Human Capital Within Your Company’s HR Department

The following survey is intended to survey the areas in which you might find opportunities to invest in the human capital within your company’s HR department to be more widely recognized as business-critical partners (i.e. administrative assistant, HR assistant, HR supervisor, office manager).

Please click here to take the short survey.

HR Business Links: Do You Know Who Your Customer Really Is?

Have you realized who your customers are? Starting a new year gives us a new, fresh start in sustaining business by reflecting and/or dealing with the pain we, as business owners, may have experienced last year like employee relations, legal compliance, and more. To continue from our last conversation, “A Business Case for an HR [...]

HR Biz Links: A Business Case for an HR Business Plan

As a business owner operating in today’s business climate, I appreciate the value of having a business plan. I also understand that business plans change, should business needs evolve or change. After seeing different business plan models, I have not yet seen an effective plan that incorporates personnel related budget expenses besides staffing and compensation requirements.

HR Biz Links: In need of some Q&A lately? Health Care Reform Question and Answers

I’m no expert on interpreting the nearly 2600 page Healthcare Reform Bill, but my continual research causes me to believe it to definitely be the catalyst to better business partnering for employers in the business community. We all have competing priorities in the work place and need to have questions answered quickly and of course, from
reliable sources. A “Q&A” would be helpful, especially surrounding healthcare reform. For example, what if I’m 1). Self- Employed 2). My COBRA will end soon and I have a pre-existing condition or 3). I have a college age daughter who needs health care coverage?

HR Biz Links: “Thrust” Into Being Strategic; Open Enrollment in the Wake of Health Care Reform

Life as it is presents us with surprises, good and bad. Often, especially in today’s environment, we have to think quickly and adjust or change our business plans and goals as we have competing priorities and numerous demands on our time.

HR Biz Links: The “Boss” is a Patient Too

As many business owners continue to try and understand the Health Care Reform Bill and its impact on the bottom line, the provisions of health care for your employees could often times lead to forgetting about yourself “health wise”.

Business Links: What in the Green World is Going On?

Business organizations over the past decade have outsourced, gone global and international, have added to their assets through mergers and acquisitions to enhance their productivity and cost savings, and are now taking on the business of “going” green and becoming a sustainable business. Thanks to technology innovations, human consumption rates have accelerated to a level [...]

HR Business Links: Strategies for Making the List

You may remember the last HR Business Links article where I had a conversation about the companies that made the Business Journal’s “Book of Lists”. I highlighted the 28 companies that provided an employee satisfaction survey that asked employees about their work environment, work life balance, wellness, job satisfaction, comp and benefits, management and attained [...]

HR Business Links: Making the Book of Lists

First and foremost, I want to congratulate the list makers of 2009. CEO’s, VP’s, directors, owners of small, mid-sized, large and micro companies were recognized in the Sacramento Business Journal publication from December 25, 2009. These companies are a testament to “weathering the storm in countless ways” according to Joanna Wessman, Sacramento Business Journal Publisher. [...]

HR Business Links: Navigating Your GPS to Your Legal Compliance Destination

I received a GPS, as a gift and I love it. It has saved me on gas mileage and gets me to my destination on time! This automobile  or hand held device uses a global positioning system to acquire position data for the user and gives directions to other locations along the road. In other words, [...]