Compelling cultures have a common ingredient. Trust. It characterizes who they are and what they do. This single ingredient propels them to be bigger, better, faster, and stronger. They win more opportunities, deal with less distractions, and enjoy more of what Jim Collins calls “luck events.” Trust was once considered a “soft” part of business. Now, it is a necessary component of sustainable growth.

Topics: Takeaways, culture, hiring, Growing, HR, Human Resources, Growth, workplace productivity, Success, Management, Goals, 2022 Planning

“Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good.”

- Todd Stocker (Becoming the Fulfilled Leader)

Topics: Takeaways, culture, hiring, Growing, HR, Human Resources, Growth, workplace productivity, Success, Management, Goals, 2022 Planning

Competitive Advantage

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 “A condition or circumstance that puts a company in a favorable or superior business position.”

Topics: Takeaways, culture, onboarding, hiring, Growing, HR, Human Resources, Growth, workplace productivity, Success, Management

The IRS recently issued further guidance on the employee retention credit. This includes guidance for employers who pay qualified wages after June 30, 2021, and before January 1, 2022, and guidance on miscellaneous issues that apply to the employee retention credit in both 2020 and 2021. Additionally, the IRS issued a safe harbor allowing employers to exclude certain items from their gross receipts solely for determining eligibility for the employee retention credit.

Notice 2021-49 addresses changes made by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to the employee retention credit that apply to the third and fourth quarters of 2021.

Topics: ohio, workplace productivity, Management, Tax Credit, Workplace Culture, Coronavirus, SBA Disaster, COVID-19, Loan, Employee Retention, ERC

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act contains a business relief provision known as the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), a refundable payroll tax credit for “qualified wages” paid to retained full-time employees from March 13, 2020, to Dec. 31, 2020. The purpose of the ERC was to encourage employers to keep employees on the payroll, even if they were not working during the covered, COVID-19, period. 

Topics: ohio, workplace productivity, Management, Tax Credit, Workplace Culture, Coronavirus, SBA Disaster, COVID-19, Loan, Employee Retention

By Robby Vanrijkel

COVID-19, the economy and political shifts have resulted in tumultuous times for many nonprofits. Organizational resilience depends heavily on securing funding, and organizations are seeking out new ways to engage with donors to ensure they have the resources needed to continue their missions. Successful nonprofits understand that maintaining these relationships is imperative for the survival and continued growth of their organizations.

Topics: ohio, Nonprofit, BDO, workplace productivity, Success, Management, COVID-19

By Michael Ward

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nonprofits in dramatically different ways, with some organizations scrambling to meet rapidly rising demand and others shrinking to survive the ongoing crisis. Whether an organization’s situation has been one of boom, bust or somewhere in between, scalability is a universal asset in a global pandemic.

Topics: ohio, Nonprofit, BDO, workplace productivity, Success, Management, COVID-19, Case Study

The Biden Administration’s American Families Plan and other tax proposals may complicate the tax landscape for high-income earners. Many of the proposals target taxpayers earning more than $400,000 per year.

Topics: Tax Planning, ohio, Tax, Tax Team, Tax updates, workplace productivity, meal deduction, Management, Deductions, Workplace Culture, Tax Increases, Biden Administration

I stumbled into Human Resources. Prior to my Human Resources career, I had very little understanding of what “HR people” did. As the department of “NO,” I saw HR as a group of people isolated from core organizational goals. As a “siloed” department, I saw a group of people working hard to process paperwork, pacify disgruntled employees, and fix payroll and benefits mistakes. What a misunderstanding! 

Topics: Takeaways, culture, onboarding, hiring, Growing, HR, Human Resources, Growth, workplace productivity, Success, Management

The IRSand the Treasury released guidance Thursday April 8, 2021 on a temporary exception to the 50% limit that businesses can deduct for food or beverages from restaurants during the pandemic.

Topics: ohio, workplace productivity, meal deduction, Management, Deductions, Workplace Culture, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Business Meal Expense