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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 More Benefits of Outsourcing HR Functions for Small Businesses

In today’s fluid work climate, companies need professional resources to address talent acquisition, retention, and workplace compliance in order to remain competitive. Way back when,

Spread The Love: Spotlight Your Employees in Your Company Newsletter

Newsletters typically provide content that’s 80% promotional and 20% educational. Sticking with the former, there can be information about new products and services, specials, or

How to Structure Your Bonuses

Remaining competitive as an employer can be challenging for small businesses, especially as we are still dealing with the economic disruptions that the pandemic has