Hire Fast and Smart Many of my clients have been holding off on hiring until the New Year, so it is full steam ahead to hire and on-board new talent. This may be a good time to refresh your hiring practices so you are positioned to compete for scarce talent and get new employees engaged and…
read more5 Things You Should Do to Get HR Up and Running I know, I know, the last thing you want to think about is HR “stuff”. It feels like such a hassle; paperwork, administrative tedium, complicated rules and regulations. Yes, HR may seem like one of the more mundane realities of operating a business, but…
read moreHR Compliance – Take Your Medicine or Stay Healthy? Often times, when I mention HR Compliance to my clients, they get a look like they just swallowed some awful medicine. I know it’s not always fun to think about, but making sure your business operates within required laws and regulations is very important to the…
read moreHR Policies: Love Them or Hate Them, You’ve Got to Have Them. It’s that time of year, again. The perennial “what are we doing for the holidays?” conversations are emerging. Just this week I talked with several clients about how to handle company parties, holiday vacations and employee gifts. These issues can be easily addressed…
read moreMultiple Generations in the Workplace. It’s Nothing New. Recently, I have met with several employer groups and one question always seems to come up. “What do we do about managing so many generations in the workplace?” This question confounds me a bit, mostly because multi-generational workplaces are nothing new. A number of years ago, when…
read moreHarassment Training Doesn’t Work This may be HR heresy, but I’m completely convinced that traditional “harassment training” is highly ineffective and may actually act as an obstacle to creating workplace engagement. Yes, an actual hindrance to a healthy workplace ecosystem. Let me explain. I wish I had a nickel for every hour of harassment training…
read moreIntroducing HR Fast Packs Three years ago, I was working with an entrepreneur (Bob), whose business was growing significantly. He was like a whirling dervish trying to keep up with all aspects of the business. Bob found himself in what he called a “suicide squeeze”, which he described as running fast for the score, but…
read moreWhat’s your leadership style? How many times have you been asked that question? It’s hard to answer something so personal; maybe it is something you never have thought about. So many factors add up to your style, or as I like to call it, your “presence”. But, what is “presence”? Some think of it as…
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