Websites for Small Business – 3 Goals for Small Business Websites
The following guest post was written by Jennifer Smith who is a journalism student at Saint Louis University. Upon graduation, she hopes to travel the world while producing compelling content for the masses. When she isn’t writing, you can find Jenna with her nose in a book, or her headphones in to block out the rest [...]
5 Barriers to Achieving Business Goals
Organizations that use strategy and goals to move the business forward are dependent on how well goals are achieved to fulfill strategic direction. Having a structured performance management process is the most important part in setting goals and achieving them. Accomplishing strategy is dependent on the ability to achieve business goals. Well written SMART goals lay [...]
2012 IRS Standard Mileage Rate
We’re coming to the close of 2011 and people are starting to ask what the IRS mileage rate will be for 2012. The reimbursement rate had an unusual midyear change in 2011 to adjust for rising gas prices and increased by 4.5 cents to the current 55.5 cents. The IRS recently announced that the Standard [...]
Sample Employee Performance Goals
Providing a well structured performance management process is the most effective way to accomplish organizational goals. This management of performance should be based on goals set at the organizational level and driven down throughout the organization. Employee performance goals help employees see a straight line between what they are doing and how it affects the [...]
Will the 2011 Social Security Payroll Tax Cut End – How to Prepare Employees For the Possibility
American employees enjoyed an unexpected 2% pay increase in 2011 when the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 implemented a temporary Social Security payroll tax cut in January 2011. The payroll tax cut reduced the social security tax for working Americans from 6.2 to 4.2 percent – a 2 percentage reduction in the [...]
