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Many businesses are struggling to build their teams right now. This is a recurring topic, of course, but magnified by the pandemic and recent social unrest.
The media and politicians like to focus on minimum wage, which is often a source of unfairness and discrimination. But that’s nowhere near the whole story.
Minimum wage attempts to provide a baseline. But it doesn’t apply to many situations, and certainly doesn’t provide a living wage in Northern Colorado.
Read the rest of this entry »Almost 4 million workers in the US quit their jobs in April 2021. That’s just stunning.
And, as we know, it’s a mixture of many job openings, people changing their career paths, and dissatisfaction with current situations. Workers are really rethinking their options right now.
As an employer, I assume that you’d like to keep your best people around. But there’s a problem:
Read the rest of this entry »They’re that wonderful customer. You’ve worked with them for years, but now they’re gone.

This has happened to my clients on occasion, and it really hurts. It can shake them to their foundation if they let it.
Here’s how I’ve helped pull them back from the ledge.
Read the rest of this entry »THE PARLOUR is a Colorado chain of salons stretching between Fort Collins, Boulder and Denver.
Led by Gene Cahill, it was started in Fort Collins in 1998 to fill a perceived gap in excellent, personal salon services.
That’s what you’ll see from the outside. Read the rest of this entry »
IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING the local business news, you may have heard that the Talent 2.0 Regional Workforce Strategy Report has now been released for northern Colorado.
If you have employees, or need employees, there’s some very sobering news. Read the rest of this entry »