Go Beyond Benefits
Faith Edmondson, Co-Founder and lead consultant here at the Gateway Company, was recently featured in the Augusta Business Daily Feature “Local business leaders share creative ways to retain employees.”
Faith, along with The Gateway Company’s Tracie Parker, shared with the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce ways to go “Beyond Benefits: Building Value through Creative Compensation.”
“You’re competing with larger companies that may be able to offer higher salaries,” she explains. Many employers think what candidates value most in a job are salary and benefits, but Parker says they are motivated by many other considerations. “Employees are looking for more engagement, flexibility, and life balance,” she states. It’s important to create a positive work culture – a process that extends from hiring to termination. “People who leave your company are your ambassadors,” because they will talk to others about their experiences, Parker adds.
Faith and Ashley say, "DON'T DO IT...alone!"
Augusta Business Daily featured the Entrepreneur duo, Ashley and Faith, of the Gateway Company. In their recent feature, Don’t do it alone!” co-founders Faith and Ashley speak on the importance of relationships, support, and partnership.
The article begins:
We (Ashley and Faith) cannot begin to count the moments in which we have been thankful to not be walking this path called entrepreneurship by ourselves. Relationships are key, paramount, essential, and every other word that means “can’t live without” in order to successfully run a business. We are blessed to have a solid partnership, balancing one another in so many ways.
Augusta Business Daily Features Gateway Company Business Coaching Service
Augusta Business Daily highlighted the Gateway Company's growth in a recent article entitled Local company that helps nonprofits raise money adds business coaching services.
The article begins:
Faith Edmondson and Ashley Ashe primarily help nonprofits receive funding through grant writing and virtual fundraising, but they have now branched out to help small businesses succeed.
Edmondson and Ashe – owners of the Gateway Company, which is the parent company of both Gateway Grant Services and Gateway Business Services – added business coaching to their list of services last summer. “There’s doing your business, and there’s working on your business,” says Edmondson, who earned her master’s degree in psychology from Augusta University and has 15 years of experience in nonprofit management.