Why I Wrote Unprecedented
I have been fortunate through the years to have been involved in owning small businesses and serving small business owners by providing them with clarity and peace of mind through HR solutions. I have seen companies launch and experience great success, only to succumb to the growth because they did not have a sufficient infrastructure […]
What is Conscious Culture?
These days, most business leaders agree that it’s in the company’s best interests to have happy and healthy employees. There have arisen many different models for achieving this goal, and one of the most striking is the conscious culture model. This approach has been the subject of much discussion recently; but for those who don’t […]
Creating a Culture Where People Feel Valued
It’s not uncommon to hear businesses boast about how their people are their greatest assets. While this is certainly a wholesome sentiment, it can also come across like lip service, particularly when the corporate culture does not cause people to feel valued. The good news is that some cultures really do show that people are […]
Building Trust with Your Multigenerational Team
Today’s workforce is characterized by multigenerational diversity. At most companies, you will find a combination of Boomer, Gen X, millennial, and even Gen Z employees. Each generation brings its own set of life experiences, ideas, and expectations to the table. While this diversity can be fodder for creativity within the workplace, it can also present […]
Create an Engaging Benefits Guide
One of the central functions of HR is to help employees make smart, fully-informed decisions about their benefits enrollment, and then to actually make good use of those benefits as needed. There are a number of tools that can assist you in this goal, starting with a benefits guide. In recent years, the benefits guide […]
Employee Retention in a Hybrid Work Environment
Some have deemed it the “Great Reshuffling.†Whatever you call it, there’s no denying that the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we think about the workplace. And as work environments continue to evolve and adapt, it’s vital that HR teams respond in kind. Here’s one important question that HR leaders should be asking themselves: […]
How to Connect with Remote Hires
Digital communication technologies, such as Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime, have made it surprisingly easy to interview and hire people without ever meeting them face-to-face. Actually bonding with those new hires, forming a meaningful connection that brings them into your company culture, is far more challenging. With many businesses still doing a lot of their hiring […]
Tailoring Benefits to a Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s employees are looking for benefits that go well beyond the basic, the generic, or the cookie-cutter. Rather, today’s employees want benefits that actually address their personal and family needs. Naturally, those needs can look quite a bit different from one employee to the next, which means HR must be ready to build benefits packages […]
Engaging Employees with Their Benefits
The word “engagement†gets thrown around a lot, but it may be helpful to pause and consider its meaning. In the context of company culture, engagement generally means an emotional commitment on behalf of your employees. Engaged employees care about the company, and they care about what they are doing each day. This doesn’t necessarily […]
Simple Ways to Prioritize Employee Engagement
Over the last 18 months, all of us have gone through seasons of immense disruption. For many of us, this period has been marked by stress and uncertainty, both in our personal lives as well as our professional lives. Naturally, this has led to a significant increase of stress, burnout, and fatigue. The question is, […]
