October 2007 1201 Placer Street - Redding, CA - (530) 246-7911

Could you save money with your own health care clinic? Free visits - Free drugs - No claims involved Employers: Could this be your answer to the rising cost of health care insurance? A company in Florida has established an onsite primary care clinic for employees to augment their high-deductible health care plan. The goal was to make sure their staff get the health care they need at a price the company can afford. The company pays the same for health care now as it did 5 years ago! How does it work? How is it working? Read the article Bargaining for Discount Health Care on www.workforce.com. Acronyms and other terms used in business It may be English - or not! Sometimes you can't tell when it's full of acronyms and terms you've never heard before. But, take heart, help is here. Jot down the "unidentifiable whatever", then look it up on the links below: For common terms, see Glossary, a new resource on the CalChamber website For International Business, try rmauduit.com/glossary.html If you're baffled by a computer-related term, see www.webopedia.com and choose from one of the computer categories.

Going Green? Check out thegreenchamber.org, a website that promotes itself as "a national organization that provides green companies and non-profits with interactive, state-of-the-art tools and sustainable community resources to improve their businesses and services through cooperation with like-minded organizations." Make the Most of Your Website Sitting back and waiting for folks to find you online just doesn't work. Here's how to get your website noticed: Free Ways To Drive Traffic to Your Web Site (www.score.org) Increase Web Site Traffic: getting visitors (www.ourshop.com) Website Design Workshop October 18 & 25, 9-11 a.m. You can create your own business website in this 2-part workshop. It's easy to do and very affordable. There is no coding to learn and no software to purchase. Fee: $50 Day One - Get your homepage online. Day Two - Learn how to customize the look and feel to meet your needs. You will get 4 hours of instruction, 3 months of website hosting, and a domain name for a year. With the website you create you can market your business 24 hours a day on the Internet. Click here to learn more or call 245-1561. ~ A Smart Business Workshop ~

Get Smart when you're ready to hire Smart's Fall Hiring Fair just gets better and better. This year's event on September 12th featured 21 employers and a record number of job seekers. It was a huge success. Planning is already underway for our Spring Hiring Fair. But what can you do if you need to hire before then? ~ Place your job orders with Smart ~ There is no fee! Download the Job Order Form (in MS Word) or call Patrick at (530) 245-1515 to place your job order. We can collect your job applications and perform the initial screening to your job specifications. Job openings can be featured on the Hot Jobs Board in our Center and on our website. ~ Have a job fair in the Smart Center ~ If you have a number of job openings, let us host a Job Fair - just for you - in the Smart Center. We'll work together to design a job fair that meets your specific hiring needs. Call Nancy at (530) 245-1555 or email mnancy@shastasmart.com to learn more. Again, there is no fee.

Sexual Harassment: A Commonsense Approach October 31, 8-11 a.m. Take this opportunity to review your company's policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace. If you don't have a written policy or want to update your current one, this workshop is for you. Fee: $55 Examples of behaviors that "cross the line" Exercises to increase awareness Responsibilities for supervisors & managers Guidelines for responding to complaints Remedies available to victims Click here to view the flyer or call 245-1571 for more information. ~ A Smart Business Workshop ~ When HR Becomes CSI "HR can take some lessons from a wildly popular television show—CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - to develop methodologies for uncovering what’s killing success in an organization." "The shows demonstrate again and again that assumptions are often wrong and that situations can be interpreted from a number of different angles. And each episode, believe it or not, is packed with learning opportunities for the HR profession." Read When HR Becomes CSI, by John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University. (www.workforce.com)

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month The theme this year is Californians Uniting to End Domestic Violence. Click here to view the flyer. Read all about it at www.safestate.org. SafeState - Preventing Crime & Violence in California. What can you as an employer do? Learn what others are doing and what you can do - and why - when you read the articles on this website: endabuse.org/workplace. Included is a section specifically addressing Solutions for Small and Large Employers.