None of us like dealing with tax issues let alone paying them but we have to so might as well get on with it! Optical business owners should have already provided employees with their copies of Form W-2 for 2011. Here are some other important dates for the first quarter 2012 Tax Calendar: February 28: The government’s copy of Form 1099 series … [Read more...]
According to the US Government these New Year's resolutions are popular year after year. One of my resolutions this year was to get better at delegating and when I looked at this list I thought, hmm, I could actually achieve nearly all of these as well if I got better at delegating: Drink Less Alcohol (not an issue for me but sometimes I feel … [Read more...]
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." - Henrik Ibsen A new employee's first few days on the job has a big impact on how fast he/she ramps-up to meeting and exceeding your expectations. I'm the first to admit that I've had more than my share of new employees whose first days were less than stellar. I … [Read more...]
Man Steals Dozens Of Eyeglasses Worth $10k WTAE Pittsburgh Surveillance video from the Eyetique eyeglass store in Shadyside shows a man grabbing several frames from the shelves. The store was packed and employees .. Thieves set their sights on high-end eyewear - The Washington Post … [Read more...]
We always enjoy the OWA's One Minute Mentor emails and thought we would share this one as it is particularly relevant during this challenging economic period. Helping Employees Adapt to Change by Audrey Pavia, Vice President of Marketing at Tura, Inc: We all face change – more often than not. Staff changes, downsizing, reorganizing and … [Read more...]
Another great weekly post from one of our favorites Doug Fleener. Please read through to the end, which has a great exercise in evalutating whether or not you Love or Like your job and better yet discover if others like or love and how it effects buying habits. "You can't deliver good service from unhappy employees." - Tony Hsieh When the … [Read more...]
We live in the information age. For many of us, even those who practically live on their computers, we live in the Too Much Information age. Let's review a few numbers here. There are on average 50 million Twitter tweets each and every day. That is about 600 per second. There are over 60 million status updates on Facebook every day, or roughly 700 … [Read more...]
My husband manages a fast pitch travel team and recently dealt with unhappy parents. While the majority of the team believes in being competitive and playing hard, one parent feels that their child should be able to play all the positions. Their request was expressed as a sense of entitlement, full of frustration, and regardless of the child’s … [Read more...]
Guest Post by Mary Crisafulli of ClearVision Optical: Building Employee Engagement Through Wellness Wellness: This simple word incorporates many facets that affect our whole being: how we work, how we play, how we live. As leaders we need to begin to acknowledge the importance of keeping our employees holistically healthy – physically, … [Read more...]
I don't know about you, but I have a case of SOME-BO (Social Media Burnout). Between Google Alerts, Twitter, Facebook, LInked In, Branch-out, Buzz, Google+, Klout, Digg, Stumbleupon, AddThis, Redditt... all the forums, email... I login 7 days a week and usually post something somewhere. I know blogging is our chosen way to be a productive, … [Read more...]
VisionWeb launched this nice little blog and because I love this info so much am reposting an article. You can subscribe to their blog here www.visionwebblog.com Email is Convenient and Efficient? Email makes communicating convenient and efficient, right? But do you ever feel like you have so much email, you'll never get through it all? … [Read more...]
We read an article about hiring mistakes in U.S. Vision's Supervisor Support and we would like to share some of it with our readers: Hiring the right people is critical for any business but especially for a small company with relatively few employees (like an independent optical retailer for example). Hiring mistakes not only waste time and … [Read more...]
The unrelenting economic pressure goes on and many optical companies are looking for new ways to reduce the cost of doing business. Reducing labor cost by hiring independent contractors in place of employees is one of the most obvious and often irresistible ways to reduce cost because of the associated cost of payroll taxes, employee benefits, and … [Read more...]
Dan Feldman at DBA Communications, sent us this great video on 10 points for writing a company social media policy. Even though this is from the department of Justice in Austrialia, it it pretty obvious they have the same issues as everyone else. I think you can get the point. … [Read more...]
Augen Optics is an innovative global eyeglass lens manufacturing company founded in Ensenada, Mexico with North American operations based in San Diego, CA. We produce advanced technology High Definition lenses for consumer wear, marketing our products through optical labs and optometry practices. We are currently seeking an Optical … [Read more...]
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