Success Strategies

Mike started his business with three friends doing what he loves …Finance! From doing what he loved, he turned his business into a multi-million dollar company extending his interests into real estate. The business subsequently grew from three friends to over 100 employees across various locations. With this rapid growth came the challenges of employee confusion about polices and processes; pay inequity; and more! Mike now begs for help from a Human Resource expert.

The Advantage of a HR Professional is to interpret specific employment laws. At its simplest level, if an employer has 15 Full Time employees it is covered by Title VII of the civil rights act; the American with Disabilities act (ADA) and the Genetic information nondiscrimination act (GINA). Expand to 20 Full-Time employees, the Age Discrimination in employment act (ADEA), and COBRA protections comes into play. Further growth to 50 Full Time employees, enter the Family & Medical leave act (FMLA).

This can be a lot for a growing small or medium sized business. It may not necessarily mean hiring a full time HR, but at least help from an external HR Consultant.

Signs that a business needs Human Resource help:

An inability to find workers needed in a timely fashion during the recruitment process;
Employee confusion about policies & processes;
Rising pay inequality issues that need to be addressed.

One bad hire can cost a company more than $50,000 p.a., not to mention the potential challenges with employee morale.

A good HR Professional can help reduce risk and streamline practices. A Cost benefit analysis will help to decide if the time is right for hiring HR support.

If you’re a growing business with 15 or more employees, Don’t Go it Alone; CALL us, we are here to help.

Tel: 954.495.1644. Email: scameron@ccahr.com

Build Your Career in 2015

If you want Something that you have never had before, you have to do something that you have never done before. Be Bold. Have Faith. GO GET IT!!

Contact Dr C. For help www.ccahr.com

Turn Your Career Around in the New Year

Don’t Wait! Gain Control of your Social Security Benefts

At a Legislative Conference at the White House on June 26, 2014, Stacy Rogers, Senior Adviser to the Acting Commissioner, SSA, encouraged Americans to gain control of their Social Security Benefits. She advised that Statements are no longer being mailed to individuals due to budgetary constraints.

Ms. Rogers encouraged individuals to set up their own Social Security account to get their social security statements. Waiting until retirement is far too late to contest records.

So be wise and visit http://www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount and create a ‘My Social Security’ account to get your Social Security Statement. Your statement provides:

* Estimates of your retirement, disability and survivors benefits

*Your earnings record

*The estimated social security and medicare taxes that you have paid.

So don’t wait! Go ahead and gain control of your Social Security benefits!

Caribbean American Heritage Month Legislative Conference Week on Capitol Hill and White House

Dr. Shelly Cameron with Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, State Representative Hazelle Rogers, and members of the Institute of Caribbean Studies Team in Washington DC

15 Leadership Traits of Successful Leaders

The 15 Leadership Traits of Successful Leaders are identified from groundbreaking research. As you Dream of becoming an effective leader, which do you identify with?

Managing Difficult People

Managing Difficult People is a Seminar designed to demonstrate how to effectively handle problem situations in the workplace. Essentially, the stress of handling difficult people can lead to a lack of productivity, poor attitude, and reluctance to come to work. This seminar covers a wide range of scenarios that occur in the workplace such as disagreeing with others, working with difficult people, and situations. Information will also be provided on how to work with a difficult boss/manager

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Medical Office Managers
Small Business Owners
Aspiring Professionals

LEARN HOW TO:

Recognize profiles of difficult people and strategies for handling them
Develop communication skills designed to improve delivery of bad / unpleasant news
Deliver negative feedback to a colleague or subordinate
Give Positive feedback
Calm angry, upset and unresponsive individuals

PRESENTED BY: Dr. Shelly Cameron
Principal Consultant

The Secret of G…

The Secret of Getting Ahead is Getting Started…Mark Twain

THE BIGGEST LEADERS

I penned my thoughts to write on America’s Biggest Leaders, but somehow found my way to the mailbox. There I saw Fortune’s list of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders”. It was no surprise that Geoff Colvin identified the world’s most extraordinary leaders with his criteria being among the living and currently active in their leadership roles. These great individuals included the likes of Pope Francis, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Geoffrey Canada, Angelina Jolie, and others.

I shifted my attention to deceased leaders instead. These individuals were unlike the mega entrepreneurs discussed in Buchholz’s New Ideas From Dead CEOs. Since Leadership means different things to different people, I decided to use Bill Clinton’s definition. In his words, leadership is bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved. He believes that leaders share the attributes of steadfastness in pursuit of a goal, flexibility in determining how best to achieve it; the courage to make hard decisions; and the confidence to stay with it and explain it.

As the world yearns for effective leadership, it seems to defy us, and as Colvin asserts, it is becoming even more difficult to identify. Of the various leadership attributes, humility was a trait identified by Jim Collins in his research on Good to Great leaders. This quality seems to evade leaders in our society today, in their quest to achieve Success. Humility enamors not being arrogant, haughty or conceited. But more the qualities of being unpretentious and unassuming; modest, courteous, respectful, teachable and selfless.

Top humble leaders that have passed on that emerging leaders can learn from include Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. As the ambitious individuals among us strive to be great, humility is encouraged. Let’s be mindful that once “we think we have got it, we have lost it”.

What are your thoughts? Which other past humble leader can you add?