Helping your Gen Y's Resolve Ambiguity – A 7-Step Process

According to the Webster's College Dictionary, ambiguity is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention."  In a business sense, it's lack of clarity.  How many times have we, as managers, assigned projects or tasks without 100% clarity?  Often!
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Helping your Gen Y's Resolve Ambiguity – A 7-Step Process

According to the Webster's College Dictionary, ambiguity is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention."  In a business sense, it's lack of clarity.  How many times have we, as managers, assigned projects or tasks without 100% clarity?  Often!
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The Changing Landscape of Rewards
Doug Sayed, SPHR, CCP, Applied HR Strategies, Inc.

The past two years has seen the quickest and most dramatic shifts in compensation (aka "rewards") plans practices ever.  In the past two years, we've witnessed "the sky is falling" near-collapse of 2008, the "big one" recession of 2008 - ... Continue Reading »

Swift HR Solutions is a big supporter of the Northwest Entrepreneurs' Network, focused on helping Northwest based companies succeed.  At the recent First Look Forum, Findood was crowned the winner in a crowd of talented companies including: Dibspace (funny money, serious business), Digital Scirocco (where content creates value), Geedra ... Continue Reading »

So what is new with COBRA? It seems like everything!

There have been and continue to be legislative changes that may directly impact your company's administrative and cash flow procedures. We hope that this article helps clarify issues around COBRA and related legislation passed as a part of the Economic Stimulus Package. Congress is ... Continue Reading »

Xconomy, the online technology publication, posted an interesting article today regarding Series A funding.  I highly recommend you read the entire article  and spend some time playing with the online financial ... Continue Reading »

Swift HR Solutions is proud to be a sponsor of the Pacific Nortwest Clean Tech Open. The Clean Tech  Open is based ... Continue Reading »

Fortune magazine recently ran an article on just what an entrepreneur in the US looks like.  According to the article, "Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. FedEx's Fred Smith. The image of the entrepreneur as whiz kid has serious currency in American business lore. But according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City think tank ... Continue Reading »

We thought you might find this article interesting, in light of the rising cost of  health insurance for all companies, regardless of their size.  While the company profiled in the article, "Continue Reading »

Turmoil over the continued viability of the venture capital business model, coupled with a maturing collegiality among angel investors, has created an interesting and challenging dynamic for potential entrepreneurs, one that could have implications for economic recovery.
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Seattle, WA – May 15, 2009 – Swift HR Solutions', www.swifthrsolutions.com provider of Human Resource consulting and SwiftHR® in-a-box product to early-stage companies, Founder and CEO, Shannon Swift was recently recognized as one of the top 100 women in ... Continue Reading »

Seattle, WA – May 15, 2009 – Swift HR Solutions, www.swifthrsolutions.com provider of Human Resource consulting and SwiftHR® in-a-box to early-stage companies, recently won the first Seattle 2.0 Awards, being recognized as the "Best Service Provider to Start-Ups".  The Awards ... Continue Reading »