5 Ways Newsletters Strengthen Your Company’s Brand
Newsletters work…if they’re good. On a daily basis, we delete the emails that appear in our inbox because we either didn’t subscribe, or the content looks boring. When done right, newsletters can be engaging, and the result is strengthening your company’s brand. In today’s blog post, we discuss how newsletters accomplish this. 1. Sharing Industry […]
Is It Time to Update Your Employee Handbook?
Your employee handbook sets the standards to which all managers and employees must adhere. It’s a reflection of company culture and helps new employees acclimate to their new work environment. More importantly, it’s there to help your employees and managers understand company policies, as well as employee and industry standards. However, an employee handbook is […]
What is The Difference Between Employee Orientation and Employee Onboarding?
Small business owners hire new team members based on the skills required to fulfill their roles. How you introduce new hires to their jobs can make or break their ability to succeed. The best way to set up a new employee for success is to adopt an onboarding policy. Consider these statistics from SHRM: 69 […]
5 Ways to Create an Ongoing Learning Culture in Your Company
A learning culture stresses the importance of employee development by actively investing in, well, learning. As a business owner, you can capitalize on employee skills to help increase productivity through improved employee engagement. This in turn helps improve employee retention. Although a learning culture contributes to growth, it takes time to develop. In fact, according […]
The Right Way to Respond to Employee Absenteeism
According to the Center for Disease Control, absenteeism costs employers $225.8 billion each year. This translates into $1,685 per employee. Even having one person away for a day impacts your operations, disrupting workflow or interfering with customer service. Chronic absenteeism continues to disrupt business and requires responses rather than reaction from small business owners. Fortunately, […]
5 Ways to Help Managers Onboard New Direct Reports
Now that you’ve gone through the talent recruitment process and landed on the person who’s the right fit, the work has only begun. You hired someone who will be reporting to you, and the best way to set them up for success is to familiarize them with the company. This exercise is known as onboarding, […]
Client Success Story: Rescuing A Family-Owned Business
Situation Our client is a family-owned food manufacturing business that experienced the sudden loss of their father. As a result, the mother and her daughter were thrust into running all aspects of the company. Because the mother is retiring after 10 years of helping her daughter, she was quickly trying to phase herself out, leaving […]
Talent Retention: How to Re-recruit Employees
Here’s a statistic to chew on as a business owner: 94% of managers say they would consider rehiring an ex-employee. Unfortunately, business owners and managers do let top talent get away. But what if you could prevent that? What if you continued to apply the same interest in your employees as you did when you […]
Client Success Story: Fixing Bugs in an IT Company’s HR Policies Leads to Retention and Growth
Situation The field of Information Technology (IT) has experienced rapid growth over the last few years, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of our clients, a managed service provider of IT, was focused on delivering stellar computer service to their clients. While they were successful in fixing computer bugs, their HR processes weren’t […]
Make It Okay for Employees to Leave: How You and Others In The Organization Treat People When They Depart
Although employees are always advised to avoid “burning bridges” when they resign from their jobs, organizations often fail to do the same. Offboarding protocols have become more important than ever with the average tenure of employees at just over four years. How you react to employee resignation can have a huge impact on your overall […]