It’s only natural for people to look forward to beautiful weather in the summer. Oftentimes, if business allows for it, work slows down a bit—seemingly a reflection of this natural transition—as people schedule vacations and soak up the sun. If you haven’t yet considered how to integrate a few creative summer perks into your employee’s […]
Workplace & Culture
Navigating HR Compliance: Tips and Solutions for Small Businesses
Regardless of the size of your company, HR compliance can be a huge undertaking. While an HR manager or department has countless important responsibilities, maintaining legal compliance may just be at the top of that mighty list. In short, HR compliance is the process of creating and enforcing internal HR policies—ones that follow labor laws, […]
The Benefits of Employee Self-Service Portals for Small Businesses
Just in case you missed a memo, an employee self-service portal is a convenient and centralized web-based platform that lets employees access and manage their personal information, HR-related tasks, and work-related resources. In other words, it allows employees to perform a range of administrative tasks without having to rely on and remind HR all the […]
Ways to use technology to improve employee experience
A positive employee experience is crucial to ensuring your employees are engaged and satisfied—which, in turn, is a boon to turnover rates, but also to the overall vibe of your company. Yet while mention of company culture, salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth all abound when it comes to conversations about retaining talent, it’s important […]
5 Employee retention strategies to retain top talent
Effective employee retention strategies to retain your top talent is especially important in today’s job market.
6 ways to help employees with soaring inflation
Inflation anxiety is real, and employees are looking to their organizations for support. Here are strategies to help employees with inflation.
How to engage remote employees: 8 engagement strategies
8 strategies to engage remote employees. Once an employee feels disengaged, it’s not long before productivity, performance, and your bottom line begin to suffer.
Maternity leave 101: the US vs Canada
There’s still this assumption floating around out there that the US ranks among the most advanced, progressive, and humane countries in the world—at least when it comes to women’s health and the rights of the family. But think again. Fun fact: the US is one of just a handful of countries around the world (including Papua New […]
What are the qualities of an effective leader?
Most of us have worked for managers but relatively few of us have had the honor of working for a true leader. As a leader occupying a management role, you may be wondering what the distinction is and how this discussion pertains to you. In a nutshell, people work for managers but they follow leaders. Put another way, while […]
HR’s Role in the Offboarding Process
A well-organized offboarding process is integral to maintaining your company culture, reputation, and even data security. Successful offboarding can go a long way toward maintaining a positive, respectful relationship both during and after an employee exits—and HR plays a key role in making it all happen.
10 Ways to Proactively Improve Employee Retention
We all know that employee retention is a key part of HR and a key component of growing and managing your business. But if an employee chooses to leave, is there anything that could have been done? While we cannot make the choice for them, we can make their choice to stay easier. According to […]
5 Time Management Tips for HR Professionals
With all of the tasks that HR professionals handle, a heavy workload is no surprise. From payroll and time cards; to recruiting, training, and employee reviews; keeping benefits, policies and compliance up-to-date; and managing PTO, HR takes care of it. The solution to getting it all done? Time management!
How to Foster Work-Life Balance (For Yourself and Others)
Work-life balance is the equilibrium between the demands of your career and the demands of your personal life. While our increased ability to work remotely and flexibly is seen as a logical evolution in modern work, it’s also a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can cater to unpredictable personal schedules, but on the other, it can result in never being fully unplugged from work. Here are some ways to foster work-life balance for yourself and your colleagues.
How to Thrive as an HR Department of One
Ask any employee what an HR department is responsible for and their answer is sure to mention a range of responsibilities. But, HR—quite literally a resource for humans—is there to support employees. To put it simply, an HR department is responsible for managing all stages of the employee life cycle (i.e., recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, and […]
7 Reasons Employee Onboarding is Everything
Employee onboarding is critical to helping new hires feel valued, better understand their role, and increase their productivity and performance, resulting in increased engagement and higher morale. We explore how to onboard effectively and why it matters.