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At what point does a start-up or a small business need HR? In my experience many small businesses feel comfortable as long as their payroll company is handling payroll reporting properly. Yet, as the business grows, the need for standardization in...
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Ann Clifford replied to Ann Clifford's discussion 'US Senior Open'
I had a nice conversation with Randy Nichols, our Indiana Senior Amateur Champion, as we watched several groups tee off at 17th on Thursday evening. He had played earlier in the day and was out being a fan like the rest of us. Unfortuately, Randy ...
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John J. Bergin III replied to Ann Clifford's discussion 'US Senior Open'
I agree the Open was awesome. I went Thursday and sat down on the edgeofr the 16th green about 3pm. I finally realized that I was sitting on the grass right next to Governor Daniels who was dressed in full golf attire. I leaned over introduced mys...
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Joel Hall replied to Ann Clifford's discussion 'US Senior Open'
Hung out at the 13th hole all day today. A great time watching from the edge of the green. Earlier in the week had the chance to meet Fred Funk (caddie hospitality area). He came through the area, shook all our hands, said thanks for helping. He r...
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US Senior Open
Watching the Open on TV. Is was fun to see the players live when I was there on Friday. Thanks for the tickets, Smaller Indiana!!! Fred Funk has the tournament in the bag at this point. He's having a lot of fun. Does anyone have any great US Sen...
August 2

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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?
Friend
What is your greatest strength?
Helping companies hire better!
What are you working on?
Recently became the HR alliance partner for a life science company in Indianapolis. We are actively hiring mid and senior level manager in quality control, R&D,, program management and manufacturing.
How big is your business?
small company
What is your Job Title
Owner
What is your Company Website?
http://www.safarisolutions.com
What is your alma mater?
Indiana University

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HR Lite Culture: Is it right for your biz?

At what point does a start-up or a small business need HR? In my experience many small businesses feel comfortable as long as their payroll company is handling payroll reporting properly. Yet, as the business grows, the need for standardization in managing people develops. Policies on vacation, sick time, harassment, dress attire and much more begin to surface.

I’ve heard clients use the term “HR Lite” to express their internal HR structure. Basically, they don’t want rules to stifle their grow… Continue

Posted on November 23, 2009 at 1:21pm —

Ann Clifford

Talent: Build vs Buy

Had an interesting discussion with a new client about whether it is better to build or buy talent. I’ve had similar conversations with other clients over the years. Small businesses face the dilemma frequently. Do they hire and train newbies, or do they hire experience? It may appear to be cheaper in the short run to hire and train newbies. But, you have to spend a lot of management time to train newbies and the ramp up time for them to become effective in their jobs is long. Yet, if you hire ex… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 4:48pm —

Ann Clifford

Talent: Do you have a “Who” Problem

I had the recent privilege of participating in a “how to hire” workshop conducted by Geoff Smart, author of the NY Times best selling book, WHO. His tagline on his book is, “Knowing what to do is not the major challenge faced by executives — finding who to do it is!”

Geoff Smart is a very smart man. (Pun intended.) Geoff has been helping major corpora… Continue

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 4:30pm —

Ann Clifford

Sales Success

In today’s competitive market, sales success is vital to an organization’s sustainability. What new things are you doing to close deals now? What have you done in the past that has worked well? Are there things that you do or offer to your sales reps that helps them maximize their performance?

Posted on May 19, 2009 at 12:00pm —

Ann Clifford

Do you have the right people on the bus?

I recently read the book, The Energy of Money. During this time of economic turmoil, I thought the book might have a few gemstone tips to keep me energized. Author, Maria Nemeth, Ph.D., uses the term “Trouble at the Border.” This term meaning that along our pathway of intention, we will undoubtedly come acro… Continue

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 12:00pm —

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At 5:49pm on September 17, 2009, Dan Lacy said…
Ann - wrote an article about employee problems in the business newspaper and quoted you - hope you don't mind.
At 11:21pm on April 26, 2009, Dan Miller said…
Ann,

I am so glad to be a part of Smaller Indiana and and as such I want to give you a token of my thanks for being a big part of Indy's growing business partnership.
I am the owner of Veterans Computer Solutions and we are proud to be a service company interested in helping to build other minority or women owned businesses. To that end we would like to offer Safari Solutions a complementary 1 year subscription to our network maintenance service.

Our maintenance subscription provides monthly maintenance on all computers and servers attached to your network. This program applies all updates from Microsoft, AntiVirus and Spyware programs, runs diagnostics on all hardware and tweaks systems for optimal performance.

Please let me know when we could stop in an finalize the maintenance subscription.

Thanks

Dan
At 3:30pm on February 26, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Thank you for speaking with me yesterday Ann. I appreciate your insight and advice!
At 11:32am on February 19, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Hi Ann. I unexpectedly had a few things pop up last week, but I would still appreciate to opportunity to talk. Are you available anytime next week. I still have your #, may I contact you early next week.
At 8:39am on February 4, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Hi Ann! I read your profile and I was curious if maybe would could assist each other. I'm looking to connect with HR professionals. Im sure you're extremely busy, but may I steal a few minutes of your time?
At 11:22pm on February 1, 2009, Brandon Sobotka said…
Thank you for the comment. I'll definitely put the book on my list of future reading material.
At 5:42pm on January 21, 2009, Kyle Lacy said…
ANN! Good to meet you last night :)
At 9:18am on January 20, 2009, Deborah Denman said…
Hello Ann, good to see you on here, I will be at the function tonight hope to see you there.
At 12:31pm on January 16, 2009, Brian Rowe said…
Ann,
Glad you found me on Smaller Indiana. We have started to do very well as our positioning has been effective for the declining economy as businesses seem more willing to work with smaller more nimble companies than maybe they had in the past. I hope things are going well for you.
At 12:27pm on January 16, 2009, Chris Baggott said…
keep it up Ann. I'm finding that if you set a really stiff goal you get a lot more productive. One thing about Compendium, it is absolutely a volume driven strategy.

I'm not sure if you saw one of my posts the other day. We doubled our posts from 225 in the third quarter to over 500 in the fourth and our traffic increased by a factor of 5. It Quintupled!

Set your goal for 5 posts a day and see what happens.

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