It isn’t uncommon to hear the managers in organizations complaining about how difficult it is to find, recruit and retain good employees. What they often don’t understand is that they have a direct impact on their organization’s ability to find, hire and keep good people. New employees are typically put through an orientation process, overwhelming them with data, and then, are … [Read more...] about Making New Employees Successful: Through Mentoring

Online business, specifically the business-to-consumer market, has skyrocketed over the past decade. JupiterResearch, an Internet marketing research group, predicts online retail sales will grow from $81 billion in 2005 to $144 billion in 2010. Business owners are finding the Internet can be an inexpensive marketing avenue to expose their products or services to potential and … [Read more...] about Search Engine Optimization: An Important Online Marketing Tool

Second Phase of Tahoe Reno Industrial Center Opened Lance Gilman Commercial Real Estate Services announced the opening of the second phase of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, 10 miles east of Sparks on Interstate 80. Development Arts, Inc., a Reno real estate development company, acting as Eagle CPT LLC, was the first to purchase land in the second phase when it acquired 100 … [Read more...] about October 2007: Building Nevada Briefs

The initiative process provided by the Nevada Constitution gives the state’s citizens the right to force a public vote on an issue if they gather a minimum number of signatures. It is democracy in its purest form. Over the last few years, many measures have been proposed through this process, from legalizing the sale of marijuana, to raising the minimum wage, to regulating … [Read more...] about The Initiative Process: The Voice of the People

As baby boomers near retirement, they're discovering the pitfall that previous retirees have been complaining about for years – insufficient retirement preparation. Although a wealth of information is available on the subject of retirement planning when the time is near, little has been written about the fundamental importance of planning for retirement early in life. Errors … [Read more...] about Baby Boomer Mistakes: Retirement Preparation

When you ask movers and shakers in Nevada what their greatest challenges are, virtually all of them say that staffing and employment issues continue to cause their biggest headaches. Despite the state’s steady growth in population (6,000 new residents claim Clark County as their home every month), the pool of potential employees is either inadequate in number or qualification … [Read more...] about Dealing with Staffing Issues: Nevada Employers Struggle with Labor Shortage

Fiscal year 2006-2007 was not the rosiest for Nevada’s economic development agencies, with statistics showing mixed success in attracting new companies and their jobs to the Silver State. However, officials at state, regional and local levels are optimistic that Nevada will continue to entice companies seeking a business-friendly climate, low taxes, convenient location and … [Read more...] about Economic Development’s Can-Do Attitude: Adapting To A Changing Environment

In recent years, ballots in Nevada have grown exponentially with the proliferation of ballot initiatives, constitutional amendments and referendums. These questions – which seek to do everything from banning smoking in restaurants to attempting to legalize marijuana – circumvent the representative process of government by going directly to the voters for approval. Proponents … [Read more...] about The Petition Process: Voter Beware

When supervisors and managers are unable to meet deadlines or production standards, the call often goes out to hire more people. If you were to poll the employees in most organizations, whether or not they could do more, the vast majority would tell you they could, but aren’t motivated to do so. In many cases, performance standards are out of date with what could actually be … [Read more...] about Improving Performance Standards: Motivation is Key

Accomplished bank robber Willie Sutton is famously known for answering why he robbed banks by saying, “Because that’s where the money is.” Where is the money today? In early June of 2007, thieves were able to shift nearly $450,000 from a city’s general fund by using a spyware program to mimic the computer strokes made by the financial officer of a small California city. The … [Read more...] about Should Nevadans be threatened by modern-age bandits? Protecting Nevadans Pockets

Investing in real estate is one way to for people to diversify their financial portfolios. Yet, problems plaguing the mortgage lending industry, coupled with the housing market slowdown, have put big question marks on the prospect. “People are more reluctant to invest because they’re nervous about what’s going on with real estate values,” said David Goldwater, founder and … [Read more...] about The Real Estate Market: An Investment or Bust?