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Tax Traps To Avoid When Incorporating a Business
As a general rule, you can incorporate your business with no tax cost as long as you contribute all of your business’s assets and liabilities to a corporation you control.A sole proprietor who incorporates his or her business, therefore, should be able to incorporate tax-free. So should a partnership. And a limited liability company that makes an election to be treated as a C corporation or as an S corporation should also be able to make these “incorporation” elections tax-free.But all rules, including general rules, can be broken. And when it comes to incorporating your business, th

s for a drawing available to the kitchen staff for the shift. Every time a product goes over the specified time or doesn't meet standards, points are deducted or tickets lost. Staff divides up whatever remains at the end. Peer pressure is more effective than management pressure, and it promotes teamwork and quality.

Allowing your employees to earn points or "company bucks" encourages them to save for larger items–and stay with you longer–and ensures that the folks driving your business earn rewards. The employees can choose prizes from a list or catalog, or you can have a points auction to have them bid on items donated from vendors or that you

Medical Billing - DME Software Biller Setup
In this installment of medical billing and the DME software setup, we're going to briefly cover what is involved with the setup that is specifically designated for the people who do the actual billing of claims. This is a very complex process that involves a number of items that all have to work together.In order to bill an insurance carrier for a claim, there are a number of items that the biller needs access to. This includes the patient personal information, the item being billed, the carrier the bill is sent to and the method by which the bill will be sent. In order for this to happe

While action does drive satisfaction, there's nothing wrong with having a little fun on the job. Effective games can help your employees improve their performance (and enhance the service levels and sales) in a fun manner. Here's a list of some games people play in the hospitality industry. Thanks to my friends and colleagues at the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (chart) for sharing some of these ideas.

100 CLUB: Employees earn a pin for learning 100 guests' names. Teaches interaction and the importance of learning who pays their check!

"GET TO KNOW ME" BINGO: Pass out bingo cards to your employees with general information about people: clothing, eye color, number of children, first-time guest, etc. As they talk to the guests, they get the square when they find a guest with the item they are looking for. Prizes are awarded for first bingo, completing all squares, etc.

GUESTS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS: Share the funniest thing a guest says on the phone, silliest question, oldest guest, youngest guest, biggest dollar order, etc. Fun way to encourage listening to the guests and sharing the stories with the other employees. Works great for cashiers, drive-thru, and guests calling for delivery/to-go.

TRAINING BINGO: Provide each employee a bingo card with specific items to sell or make or even skills to demonstrate to you. As they complete each item, they get the square. Focus is on refreshing skills they may have forgotten.

V.I.G. CARDS: Pass out cards or coupons to all employees and have them distribute them to friends, neighbors, offices…anywhere outside of your parking lot. Everyone is a salesperson. The employee earns points for each one redeemed. They can save the points for prizes and you can have larger prizes for the top salespeople.

CLOSEST TO THE PIN: You can do this prediction game for a variety of functions. For cashiers, it can be over/short, how many of a specific item they will sell, or total sales for the day. In the back of the house, it can be for guessing total food waste, number of remakes, busiest product hour, or ideal food cost versus theoretical.

FIND THE DOT, CLEAN THE SPOT: Place date labels around those hard-to-clean places, including under the dish machine, behind equipment, under stacks of cups or boxes–basically, any place you need clean. The employees find the dots, clean the spots, and earn points/prizes. You get a sparkling restaurant and help open the eyes of the team.

COOK TIME/QUALITY: Have a specified number of points, lottery tickets, or tickets for a drawing available to the kitchen staff for the shift. Every time a product goes over the specified time or doesn't meet standards, points are deducted or tickets lost. Staff divides up whatever remains at the end. Peer pressure is more effective than management pressure, and it promotes teamwork and quality.

Bulletin Board Material
A few thoughts for the day from the world of music - share these with your staff to reinforce various points to focus on. Pardon my random, and sometimes obscure, tastes in music. What song/artist are these lines from? Chances are they didn’t have the quickservice restaurant business in mind when the songs were penned.The answers are below.Can your guests say the following when they leave your restaurant?1) Simply the best, better than all the rest! 2) I like it, I love it, I want some more of it!I hope they guests don’t say this when they l

ormation about people: clothing, eye color, number of children, first-time guest, etc. As they talk to the guests, they get the square when they find a guest with the item they are looking for. Prizes are awarded for first bingo, completing all squares, etc.

Something Toxic on the Ceiling
I got a phone call from a magazine writer who was working on a story. Turns out that Stanford University put out a research study looking at what barriers exist for women in the corporate world. They talked to something like 1,000 of their MBA grads - not new grads, but people who went through Stanford over many years - and asked them what was keeping women out of the top ranks of corporations. Here's what they reported:There is no glass ceiling. Women themselves are opting out of the top jobs, for lifestyle reasons or because they don't want the pressure.So, asked the writer, "What

ngo card with specific items to sell or make or even skills to demonstrate to you. As they complete each item, they get the square. Focus is on refreshing skills they may have forgotten.

Interview Perspectives - The Interviewer Who Wouldn't Stop Talking
In my practice I’ve come across all sorts of interview feedback from my clients, but this one stands out as being worthy of bringing to your attention.This is an account of John’s interview and the interviewer who wouldn’t stop talking.With all of my clients we cover the importance of interview preparation; knowing what you have to offer and being able to discuss why you want the job and are the most suitable candidate. In addition having the confidence to conduct the interview on an equal footing with the interviewer so you can make your decision about whether the job is right for y

any of a specific item they will sell, or total sales for the day. In the back of the house, it can be for guessing total food waste, number of remakes, busiest product hour, or ideal food cost versus theoretical.

Change Management
“It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change”. -Charles DarwinThe world today is changing faster than ever before. Technological developments, financial constraints, expanding markets, restructure and mergers, new philosophies and government legislation are all putting pressure on organizations to change. Yet the process of change is far easy from easy, and implementing it successfully makes considerable demands on the managers involved.In our fast moving, highly competitive global marketplace, change is continuously req

GET-OUT-OF-SIDE-WORK CARDS: Everyone loves getting out of side work!

MANAGER CLOSES FOR YOU: Manager does the employee's closing duties for the night (and gets checked out by the employee). Walk a mile in my shoes! Who learns more in this example?

GET-OUT-OF-WORK-EARLY CARD: They can redeem points for an extra 15/30 minutes added on to a break or to come in late/leave early, with prior approval.

MAKE YOUR OWN SCHEDULE FOR A WEEK: They get to write their own schedule for one week. It doesn't cost you anything, but it's worth plenty to them.

GIFT CARDS: Trade-out with your neighboring businesses or purchase gift cards that can be used for phone calls, gas, video rental, coffee, or movie theaters.

OTHER STUFF: Other effective rewards include electronics, CDs, DVDs, uniform parts, certificates for a car wash, or gift certificates from giftcertificates.com (where employees can choose from over 700 different gift certificates so you don't have to worry about what to buy).

Just remember: "Mandatory recognition is not recognition." How you present the award is as important as what you are presenting. The games are meant to help you begin to recognize and reward your staff. If you or your managers are doing this just because you have to, don't even bother doing it at all.

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It might be an exotic dream to work aboard a cruise liner but can be just as exhausting. Among the 300 or so liners, the minimum crew is a couple of hundred. Some liners have crews of 500 or more. However, with this many employees working together at such close range, you will get to know many people very well over a period of time this way.

When you’re facing a major career crisis, it’s hard to evaluate prices. I like to draw an analogy with getting a flat tire in the middle of the night. You haven’t bought tires for years and have no clue about what’s realistic. Sometimes a high price means good value. But sometimes you just pay a high inflated price.

When the time for employee performance evaluation comes around, it spells of a lot of work and stress. Many evaluations have to be prepared and more stressful is the part when your team member argues on what you have documented. There is an effective and easy way to do this.

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