Veritas News

Organizational Culture Sets Focus

Fort Myers New-Press November 2011: By Yvonne Ayala McClellan

For a business, organizational culture is like the lighthouse in the distance.

Many Southwest Florida businesses are thriving and giving their company direction by creating organizational culture.

"It's what makes all of the decisions that get made coherent," said Charles Ingram, CEO of Veritas Employers Services in Bonita Springs.

Ingram urged more professionals to work on cultures at the Human Resources Management Association of Southwest Florida luncheon at Cypress Lake Country Club in Fort Myers on Wednesday.

He told the group of about 60 that there isn't one right way to develop business culture and that each organization finds its own way.

Ingram said Fort Myers-based Johnson Engineering has employee stock options available as an incentive to positive performance within the organization and other national companies such as Southwest Airlines cross-train all employees so they can step in and help in other areas when there's a greater need, such as a baggage clerk helping to check in customers for a flight when the waiting line is backed up.

Fort Myers-based FineMark National Bank and Trust... more

Make the Technology Work for You

Southwest Florida BUSINESS TODAY September 2011: By Charles Ingram

United Airlines had a commercial during a previous recession where the head honcho of a company was addressing his staff and telling them they had just been fired by one of their oldest customers, who said, "We don't don't know you anymore..." He bemoans the insertion of "Technology" into business relationships (darn those phones and fax machines-it's a 1990 commercial). Then he hands out a huge stack of airline tickets to the assembled group, and ells them to go see all of their customers face to face.

The fact that it is a self-serving message from United Airlines, doesn't make it wrong.

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of the ubiuitous business technologies we see in the marketplace. Our firm uses nearly all of them and they assist with communication, fulfullment, efficiency, security, and a host of other necessary tasks we perform to assist the business operations of our clients. But particularly in the businsses services industry, I think it is incumbent on us to make sure that any new technology we are using is being deployed "purposefully" and that we are able to point to the way it is benefiting the companies who depend on us. Anything less, and you've crossed from owning the technology to having the technology own you. more

Survival Success - Veritas Employer Services

Southwest Florida BusinessToday - April 2011 By Charlie Ingram

It is a great joy to “Catch people
doing good.” That’s a phrase I
heard Ken Blanchard, of One
Minute Manager fame, use.

By the measures of folks we talk to, apparently we have thrived over the last three years (company founded April, 2008). I can tell you that it felt a lot more like surviving! In any client-centered business, one cannot help but live the vicarious life of the client—where their struggles are your struggles and their triumphs are yours, as well. Seemed a dearth of triumphs from our vantage point. But, nearly everyone we deal with says, “You know, I’m going to be so much smarter n the other side of all this…” more

Firms Relieve Companies of HR Load

1:39 PM, Apr. 23, 2011 Fort Myers News-Press
Written by Tim Engstrom, tengstrom@news-press.com LINK to NewsPress

How to decide if a professional employer organization might be right for your business.

- Review current employee handbook and human resource services. Are they satisfactory or is there major work needed?

- Factor the cost of paying PEO against the costs spent providing services in-house. If managers have human resource functions in addition to their own jobs, be sure to include that cost.

- Work with an accountant or other financial adviser to determine if your worker's compensation or insurance costs could be lower under a PEO. Because your employees will be hired by the PEO and aggregated with other workers, they may be subject to the regulatory requirements of larger businesses.

Does your company need a PEO?

Employee rosters have gotten smaller for many businesses in recent years, but workers' compensation headaches and regulatory compliance issues are growing.

For professional employer organizations, that presents an opportunity. "We are sort of a contrary industry," said Charles Ingram, president and chief executive officer of Veritas Employer Services in Bonita Springs. "The requirements and regulatory hurdles are getting higher and higher and companies have fewer and fewer resources to put toward it. We have been able to stand in that gap for our clients." More

Charlie Ingram to Speak at Entrepreneur Society of Naples (ESON)

Presentation on Contract Negotiations at ESON's March 2011 Meeting

We were thrilled and overwhelmed with the turnout for our Anniversary Party and March Meeting. “Contract Negotiations” is a new concept for many attendees and much was learned in a very unique presentation by Charlie Ingram.

How to Develop Talent within Your Organization

Reference: Gulfshore Business magazine March 2011... entire article

Training your talent could be the smartest business decision you make in 2011. Here's why-

It could transform your company into a more efficient and effective organization, enabling it to take on new clients—or possibly even new revenue-generating business sectors. Experts say employees will be empowered by seeing their company investing in training and development, amid lingering concerns about the economy.

“I think everybody is trying to be as efficient as they can with what they already have,” says Charles Ingram, CEO of Bonita Springs-based Veritas Employer Services, a full-service Professional Employer Organization (PEO). The firm offers customizable human resources, payroll and employee benefits to companies with more than 100 employees around the nation.

What ultimately is a company’s greatest resource—its people—shouldn’t be ignored. Organizations that offer career development opportunities are six times more likely ... more

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And a business should be sure its PEO has the business’s interests at heart. “They really ought to make sure they’ve got somebody who sees themselves as being their partner,” says Ingram. “It’s one thing when you’re saving people money or time, but it’s another thing altogether when you are an integral part of them staying in business.” (Click here to read the entire article.)