How to Handle a Good Employee with a Bad Attitude
If you have an underperforming employee who has a toxic attitude that is contaminating the rest of your staff, the solution is simple: find a replacement and fire him. But if that employee is one of your best workers, firing him may not be the best approach if you want to maintain your team’s productivity…
Read More7 Change Management Tips to Ensure a Smooth Transition
Since the mid-2000s, new markets, labor pools, and technology have forced companies to dramatically change their business models in order to adapt and thrive, making change management a critical component to any company’s success. However, according to a 2013 Katzenbach Center survey of global senior executives, the success rate of major change initiatives is only…
Read More3 Reasons Your HR Team Might be Falling Behind
Many small and medium business owners have recognized their in-house teams are not able to consistently complete in a timely manner everything that is necessary to become/or stay in compliance. Your company’s HR team can easily start falling behind from trying to meet the diverse and ever-increasing needs of today’s employees and employers. #1) TROUBLE…
Read MoreOnboarding Is More Important Than You Think
After spending countless resources on recruiting, interviewing and hiring a new employee, one would think that managers would want to make a good first impression and make the first few days, weeks and months for a new hire as smooth as possible with effective onboarding. Strangely, onboarding is often overlooked by employers. Reasons for this…
Read MoreSave Time and Money by Monitoring Employee Hours
Payroll is one of the largest expenses for any business owner of any size, but there are ways to lower the cost. Using an automated system to track your employee hours will reduce mistakes and cut down on the labor associated with manually calculating time. Think of all the potential productivity gained by automating your…
Read MoreAnalyzing the Impact of the Workplace Anxiety Epidemic
Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in America, affecting more than 40 million adults (nearly one in five) and costing more than $42 billion in health care annually. Stress from family life, finances, and relationships often cause people to experience feelings of anxiety, but workplace anxiety may be an overlooked issue. American…
Read MoreHow Prepared Are You for Internal Employee Conflicts?
In a perfect world, all of your employees would get along with each other, they would never have a dispute with management, and your workplace would run as peacefully as a church sermon. Unfortunately, when large groups of people interact with each other for 40 or more hours per week, employee conflicts are bound to…
Read MoreBehavior-Based Employee Discipline vs Progressive Discipline
It’s the necessary evil that nearly every boss, manager, supervisor, and HR professional dreads: having to discipline an employee for tardiness, lack of productivity, or anything else. Choosing to employ behavior-based employee discipline and employee coaching can sometimes help a troubled employee succeed. In an ideal world, no employee would ever do anything wrong or…
Read MoreToo Much to Handle: The Plight of Today’s HR Professionals and the need for HR Consulting Services Provider
As the field of human resources continues to evolve, so do the job descriptions of HR professionals. What began as just recruitment and personnel-based industry has exploded into a complex amalgamation of responsibilities, including compliance assistance, payroll administration, employee relations management, and an ever-growing list of other obligations. In today’s business world, the average human…
Read MoreHow Can Your Small Business Compete For Big Talent?
As the unemployment rate drops to historically low levels, competition for new employees keeps heating up, pitting every company against one another in a “war for talent.” Oftentimes, small businesses may feel like it is difficult to compete with their larger competitors who have more resources to put into recruiting and more money to compensate…
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