Shawna Woodward

Real Talk Real Estate: How School Choice and Ratings Influence Your Home-Buying Decision

When buying a home, specific needs often narrow down the selection. Key factors include community amenities, the home’s size, proximity to work, and features like a garage or yard. One often underestimated element that significantly impacts property values and choices is school zoning. School choice and school ratings profoundly influence lifestyle choices, purchase locations, and homeowner happiness. Since back-to-school posts are flooding our feeds right now, I thought we could talk about how compelling this factor is when it comes to buying a home. Homebuyers are no longer merely checking

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B2B Podcasting

Firing employees is harder than you think

As a business owner, it’s inevitable at some point that you have to fire an employee. TeKay Brown Taylor shares some advice you need to know to handle the situation with better results for all. You can also listen to Neil and TeKay each Saturday at 7:30 A.M. on Classy 1230, tune in to “Let’s Work It Out.”

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B2B Stories

Update on multi-million dollar renovation project

Progress is being made on a comprehensive cancer treatment center to be located in the former Medac Building at 150 Bluff Avenue in North Augusta, SC. These development efforts represent total investments of over $35,000,000 into North Augusta, including $20,000,000 invested into the former Medac Building. Following Medac’s acquisition by Coronis Health, the Board of North Augusta Forward recognized the opportunity for the building to better support downtown revitalization by increasing the density of employees and customers using the building. Working with Palmetto Peach Development, a Master Plan was developed

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Human Resources

ConceptHR Corner: The Necessity and Advantages of Employee Confrontation

Confronting employees is one of the hardest things managers are required to do, and generally, most of us will do almost everything to avoid it. I remember one of the most valuable lessons I learned in a leadership class at the beginning of my career in human resource management was, “The fairest thing you can do for an employee who is not meeting expectations or whose conduct is inappropriate or unacceptable is to let them see the train coming.” In other words, let them know there’s an issue sooner than

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Consumer Stories

Working for the Weekend: The Augusta Market

I love a good day trip with the kiddos, but you don’t actually have to leave the city to find a fun outing for the weekend. Just a drive downtown can provide a fun Saturday with the kids, or even the pets. I hit up the Augusta Market with two of our three girls and had a good time just discovering what’s available at the stands near the river. And let me tell you, it’s quite an eclectic offering. I think most people assume it’s a farmer’s market vibe, but

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B2B Podcasting

Keeping employees happy, more than just $

Money doesn’t always equate to happiness in business. Catch the conversation between TeKay and ABD’s Neil Gordon, it could help your business grow. You can also tune in each Saturday at 7:30 A.M. on Classy 1230, tune in to “Let’s Work It Out.”

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Consumer Stories

CSRA businesses support Red Cross disaster response

Almost 800 Red Cross volunteers are temporarily calling Augusta home. A few are local, but Red Crossers from across the states of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida are pitching in to answer the need. The East Central Georgia Red Cross based in Augusta is currently serving as disaster response headquarters for what continues to unfold as a catastrophe for all three states. “We couldn’t serve as homebase for this disaster response without our community partners like Golden Harvest for warehousing supplies and the Exchange Club Fairgrounds for providing space to

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B2B Stories

AI company partners with CSRA clinics

Artificial Intelligence is being utilized in almost every industry with banking, data-based and technical services, and manufacturing and assembly-line companies at the top of the list. The medical field is coming on strong as AI tools help doctors pinpoint high-risk patients. Innovative Renal Care operates more than 230 clinics in 25 states, including South Augusta Dialysis Clinic and North Augusta Dialysis Center. The company has partnered with DeLorean AI with the goal of helping assist with screenings, keeping patients healthier, and prolonging life expectancy. Severence MacLaughlin founded DeLorean AI five

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B2B Stories

Balancing the Short-Term and the Long-Term

At this time last year, I wrote a column that discussed Major League Baseball’s “trade deadline” and how it provides some good lessons that we can apply to business decision-making. In today’s column, I will revisit one of those lessons in more detail than I provided last time.  However, before we delve into that lesson, please allow me to quickly review the trade deadline and its implications. This year’s trade deadline was last Tuesday, July 30, at 6 pm EDT, meaning that teams cannot make trades for players from other

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