6 Tips to Promote Your Employees’ Professional Development

6 Tips to Promote Your Employees’ Professional Development

6 Tips to Promote Your Employees’ Professional Development If your company views professional development as a costly line item on an expense report rather than a critical component of a well-rounded human resources strategy—you’re missing the big picture. Countless...

Top 4 HR Activities That Should Be Priority

Usually, a small business will approach us with what they think they need in terms of HR services. We’ll get a call or an email about a specific topic, asking us whether we can fill that need and what we would recommend as the best way forward for that company. “When...

Quick Tip: Language Matters

Managers and leaders need to pay attention to the language they use at work. This includes not joking about mental health conditions; “he’s acting crazy” or “she is nuts”. Strong leaders encourage honest and open conversations about challenges employees are personally...
New Employee Onboarding for Successful Retention

New Employee Onboarding for Successful Retention

You found a new hire. Great! What do you do with them? “Well, we really want to hit the ground running.” What does that even mean? The onboarding process sets your new hire’s expectations as well as determines how effective they’re going to be as an employee....
Effective One-on-One Meetings

Effective One-on-One Meetings

The pressure. The expectations. The stress. The sometimes pointlessness. Many of us are familiar with all that goes into every meeting, big or small. Throughout the week, it’s important to meet with your employees, to score some “face time”, in order to maintain...