People Power: An Entrepreneur?s Guide to Managing Human Capital

Looking for an all-in-one solution to maximizing results from your company’s employees? Look no further than People Power!

Employees can make or break a business—yet many companies have no idea how to manage their incredibly valuable “human capital.”

Now, for the first time, HR expert Scholley Bubenik, President of Premier HR Solutions, unlocks the secrets she’s learned over her thirty years of human resources experience in People Power. Detailing her time-tested, practical and proven strategies, Bubenik gives you the tools you need to assemble—and keep in place—the kind of team that will take your business to the top. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner or manager, these innovative insights and nuts-and-bolts advice will help you get the most out of your employees while helping them achieve true job satisfaction.

Maximizing employee engagement means you’ll need to do more than simply abide by state and federal regulations and file the right paperwork at the right time—you need to develop a plan that aligns your company’s business goals and culture with your people’s. The key to this is Bubenik’s “Five Strategies”—a set of principles which, when implemented together, provide a comprehensive approach to the process of recruiting, training and retaining. In addition, People Power also includes interactive exercises that help you customize the book’s content to your own specific business situation—allowing you to take instant advantage of Bubenik’s hard-won HR knowledge.

Inside these pages, you’ll discover how to:

• Attract the top talent to your business—and, just as importantly, evaluate how good a fit they’ll be for your company’s culture;
• Calculate the compensation you should offer prospective employees—and the kinds of desirable perks you can offer that can offset high salary demands;
• Increase your employee engagement—empowering you to retain your most valuable personnel for the longest period of time, and;
• Avoid risk—and deal with compliance issues, employment laws and any other trouble that might be on the horizon in the most efficient way.

The author also reveals her exclusive “Funnel Approach” to recruiting the ideal candidate for an open position. From the initial job posting to assessing the candidates, making an offer and, finally, integrating the new employee into your business, Bubenik helps you avoid the massive mistake of hiring the wrong person, a mistake that can cost you time and money, as well as negatively impact your business results.

People Power provides an abundant supply of tips and tricks to create a win-win for both you and your employees, as well as easy-to-use exercises that empower you to apply the book’s strategies directly to your operation. If you’re looking for an all-in-one answer to hiring and managing your personnel, then People Power is the book for you.

Scholley Bubenik is the principal owner of Premier HR Solutions, a consulting firm dedicated to providing executive-level human resource management to small, medium and start-up companies. Her vision has enabled hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and managers to successfully grow and manage their companies.

Scholley’s entrepreneurial roots run deep. In fact, they are literally part of her DNA. From her youngest days she had people in her life who she loved and admired for their willingness to step out and do something different and build something of their own that they could be proud of. 

Her grandfather and uncles emigrated to the U.S. in the early twentieth century to avoid religious persecution and found America to be a land of great opportunity. They opened and ran several small businesses. Scholley’s mother opened and ran a dress store for years in her hometown of Taylor, Texas.

So, it’s no surprise that she, too, started a business in her early twenties after graduating college with her first degree. Her first business was a private primary school. She eventually grew the school to a staff of 25 and it thrived. She admits today that she knew very little at the time about hiring and managing people, but she learned a great deal and succeeded anyway. 

Once she met her goals of achieving profitability and national accreditation, Scholley returned to her hometown of Taylor, Texas. When the Taylor school district received a federally funded grant in 1992 to aid childhood literacy in the town, Scholley was chosen to run it. She spent the next seven years teaching parents how to read, and teaching them how to help their kids learn how to read. The initiative was a resounding success and it was chosen by the NEA as one of 12 acclaimed programs across the country.

When that work was over, Scholley began a 20 year career in Human Resource Management, working at the highest level with growing companies and entrepreneurs. During this time, she honed her skills in human resource management before launching Premier HR Solutions, a company that serves other growing companies and advises them on all aspects of human capital. Scholley has helped a wide range of companies across multiple industries establish human resource departments, eventually expanding to work with companies involved in mergers and acquisitions as well as those who required assistance with recruiting services and customized training.

Scholley lives in Lago Vista, Texas with her husband, Rick, They have two daughters, Kristen and Stacy.