July 12, 2012

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One way to quickly fill the gaps in your staffing plan is to utilize LinkedIn. The social networking website for professionals is particularly useful for finding employees with specific skill sets in a short time frame. Many freelancers and professionals have LinkedIn profile’s and those with a good work history (and a verifiable one) are not hard to find.

3. Small Business Payroll

For small businesses, payroll software is an essential. Although cloud-based payroll software is not yet easily available Intuit, a market leader in online and offline accounting solutions provides some great tools. QuickBooks accounting software, an Intuit product, is specifically designed with the small business owner in mind. The product line offers payroll solutions as a part of the desktop software portfolio.

4. Employee Performance

Adopting company-wide 360-degree performance reviews is not an easy task. Monitoring employee productivity and rewarding good performance has always been an important part of doing business. Monitor performance and evaluate specific training needs with Workforce Growth, an effective employee performance management system that includes instant appraisals and reports.

The cloud-based tool can help you effectively manage and compare the productivity of individual staff members and incorporates a rewards and recognition component. The system also includes features that allow your team to share feedback with management. Employees can ask or give feedback directly or anonymously from or to anyone at any time.

The cloud-based platform aims to simplify employee performance management with a solution driven by employees helping each other grow instead of policies.

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Carlo Pandian is a freelance writer and blogs about business, entrepreneurs and technology covering everything from tutorials on QuickBooks online accounting software to team management tools. He loves reading great entrepreneurs biographies and speaking at conferences about how the Internet can help small businesses.

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