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TomPhillips

Small Biz HR columnist

Phillips is founder and managing partner of Phillips & Associates, a Carmel human resource and management consulting company founded in 1994. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois as well as several professional certifications. He belongs to the Human Resource Association of Central Indiana, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists and the Johnson County Employee Relations Resources Association. Phillips also is a trustee for a $1.5 billion multi-employer retirement plan, participates in various community service organizations, serves as a coach, instructor and mentor for human resource professionals and contributes articles and information to various publications.

Phone:
889-0429

E-mail:
tom_phillips@prodigy.net

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Here's a must-do checklist for personnel managers

May 25, 2009
If you are a human resources professional, now is an excellent time for you to assess the human resource function in your company.
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A personnel checklist for 2009-part 1

January 26, 2009
If you are a human resources professional, the start of a new year is an excellent time to assess the human resource function in your company, including how well your company is complying with the many and often complex employment laws.
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HUMAN RESOURCES: If you hire in a hurry, you may feel bad for a long time

June 25, 2007
Of all the components of finding and hiring the right employees, employers consider interviewing job candidates the most difficult. If not done well, interviews can lead an employer to make the wrong decision. Why? Because job candidates rehearse their answers to the traditional interview questions, telling the employers what they want to hear. However, if employers ask behavioral based questions, job candidates can't manipulate their answers as easily. Perhaps a scenario-a composite taken from typical real-life episodes-will illustrate the difference...
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Think your business is too small for HR? Think again

December 25, 2006
After squeezing 36 hours out of every 24-hour day, you have reached a milestone in your business: You realize you need help. How you find, hire and treat employees-from that first one to those that follow-can accelerate your success or throw obstacles in your way. The moment you begin the search for your first employee, you enter the intricate world of "human resources." If you're like many busy entrepreneurs, you have given little thought to how to do that. You...
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  4. The basic idea of nice apartments with parking and retail is a good one, but this design seems overwhelmingly big/tall for Broad Ripple. The size could be disguised a bit with lots of big trees/landscaping, but the complex is too massive to blend in easily. That section of canal between College and Westfield will also need to be upgraded on both sides. Nice apartments facing onto a nice promenade with shade trees/plantings could bring together the canal towpath/Monon recreation, the outdoor seating at existing restaurants, and this project into something that upgrades the whole area. A plan for the whole stretch makes more sense than facing nice new housing onto what looks like a ditch. Is there a plan? Does the public have input? Who pays? The apartment idea seems to be reasonable, but Whole Foods is not a good idea for appropriate retail. Besides the store being physically too big, there are already Fresh Market at 54xCollege and Whole Foods in Nora for fancy groceries. Good Earth and Kroger are within walking distance of the Shell site. There are at least 7 grocery stores within a safe bike ride. Whole Foods would add nothing but traffic congestion. This design is on the right track, but there needs to be more work done to ensure that it blends in with and enhances the existing community. A project that large will set a tone for that whole part of town. It could be a real asset, but only if done right.

  5. I did not move to Zionsville to live in Carmel. This and the subsequent developments to follow will ensure a vanilla uniformity of strip malls and apartment buildings as we seek to bring our town down to the least common denominator. We were warned before recent elections that pro-development council members would make sure their friends (landowners and developers) would be able to make their millions off of the exploitation of Zionsville. Why in God's name would we sell out the best preserved small town in the State of Indiana?

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