From the Executive Director

Juan A. Navejar Jr.

Happy New Year everyone. Like most everyone at the start of the year we talk about new years resolutions with most thinking of personal resolutions to improve our everyday lives. Ever think about making one as a business owner or business manager?
Like most business owners, the final month of 2014 were spent getting ready for tax season.
Now would be a good time to look over your 2014 profit and losses and figure which were your best months. We already updated Quickbooks 2015 and if you have not seen the new look, you are in for a surprise. The new version has a new look and design, however, the concepts are still the same. The added features give you graphs and charts to help you gage expenditures and cash flow.  As a business owner your might want to take a look at this software.
Your next resolution is to review your email contacts and clean out your emails. If you are like me, you probably keep emails for ever which can be good and can be bad. Make files for old emails and store them there and start a new batch for 2015. If you receive a great deal of spam take a look at where you need to unsubscribe from lists. It’s easy to get caught up on lists when opening emails that require an email address from you to begin with. So avoid that problem early.
While cleaning your emails, continue on to your desk. I am guilty of cluttering up my desk. I ended the year by making sure I had nothing on top of my desk.
Back on the business side, if your employee handbook has not been updated give yourself at least 90 days to make sure by Spring you have at least reviewed it and be prepared to update yourself with all the latest changes in human resources policies.
And finally, make sure you have new calendars for 2015. Make sure your personal planner has new pages. Once again guilty here, mine are still in its plastic wrapper but will make sure they are in my planner by the end of the day.
Hope your 2015 is a successful year. Happy New Year all.