On her Employee Handbooks Blog Jill Pugh discusses 10 things to keep in mind if you need to fire an employee.
A no-no I see the most on the list is the desire to withhold money from the employee’s last paycheck. (See No. 5).
Employees are often issued laptops, cell phones and other technologies.
Joe Kristan, Central Iowa’s premier blogging accountant, reminds us in a recent post that LLC and corporation owners are responsible for unpaid payroll taxes. The most important take from the post:
The moral? Never, ever fail to remit your payroll taxes; if you do, don’t expect an LLC, or any other entity for that
Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone avoided the "elephant in the room"? In our business and daily lives we all avoid certain conversations. At work we send emails when we should talk to someone in person. Or, we often ignore issues altogether which only makes matters worse. Mastering Crucial Conversations and confrontations
Brett Trout and I want to stress one thing about our upcoming seminar Secrets of Professionals Revealed. It’s a business conference! Yes, we are lawyers and lawyers are invited but so is every other professional on the planet.
Here’s our theory behind this conference: We attend continuing legal education seminars frequently. Unfortunately those get
Want some great business advice? Here are some of my favorites from the past week:
Take Risks, Run with Scissors by Shirley Poertner on IowaBiz.
2 Ways to Safeguard Your Attitude by Hugh Hollowell on Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur.
Volunteer a Little by Michael Libbie on Insight Advertising – Marketing Communications.
At the upcoming Secrets of Successful Professionals Revealed seminar you’ll get your chance to hear from Tre Critelli. Tre and his father, Nicholas Critelli, have the only law firm within the United States that features a pair of English barristers and U.S. trial lawyers.
The use of technology in Critelli’s office is innovative and
Bigger isn’t always better. Victoria Herring is a successful sole practitioner who practices in the areas of civil rights and discrimination law in Des Moines. She is a believer in cutting-edge technology including the latest Apple technology, Web-based communication and online research. She will lend her expertise in how professionals can start their businesses on
Penny J. Ummstattd-Cope of the Joplin, MO Business Blog points out that today’s women need to be just as concerned about protecting their assets as men. Penny says:
Women should start thinking about protecting their assets before they get married or even enter into a living arrangement with a man. Why? More and more women
All politics are local. Including the office. Do you know how to play the game or is the game playing you?
Timothy Johnson is a business consultant, author and adjunct professor in the MBA program at Drake University in Des Moines. We are excited to have Timothy share his insight, wit and wisdom on office
When the Don of the Central Iowa Blogga Nostra asks you to do something – you oblige. So here is my addition to the conversation Liz Strauss started on blogging as a metaphor.
For me, baseball is life. Steve Rubel once compared blogging to baseball when he said:
Baseball is a good metaphor
