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Does Your Small Business Have An Employment Contract? It Should.
When assisting a small business owner with an employee issue or termination, I will usually ask to see the employee’s contract. More often than not, I get that deer in the headlights look, followed by the confession that there is absolutely nothing in [...]
If you don’t Onboard, You will Offboard
A lot of start-ups and small business owners don’t think they need an onboarding process because they have a welcoming culture or they are a small team or everyone needs to “hit the ground running”. Well that is all lovely [...]
Bereavement Leave for Pets
Last week we said goodbye to our 9 year old dog – Oreo. My husband and I had got him before we were married and he truly was our first baby. Dog people will get this, the rest of you [...]
3 Ways to Combat Mental Illness in the Workplace
Earlier this month a small Nova Scotia town was devastated when a Canadian soldier presumably killed his wife, daughter and mother before turning a gun on himself. Unimaginable! How does a family recover from this? As a parent, I cannot [...]
6 Office Holiday Celebration Ideas
As we enter the holiday season, I can’t help but reminisce about my previous holiday celebrations in the workplace. While I see my clients start to decorate their workspaces, the poinsettias arrive, the trees go up, employees seem both incredibly [...]
When to Hire Your 1st Employee
I attended a conference recently and ended up talking to the founder of a fairly successful tech start up company. I say fairly successful, because while the technology had experienced great success, the expected returns just weren’t where he thought [...]
