by Jennifer Carsen, J.D., Senior Legal Editor & Karen Barretta, Contributing Editor, HR Daily Advisor Employers can’t develop effective hiring strategies without knowing the kind of talent they already have on board, what they’ll need in the future, and how to fill any gaps. A workforce analysis can identify those gaps so that employers can […]
TIP TUESDAY: Six-Step Employee Improvement Plan
{excerpted from the article, “How to Establish a Performance Improvement Plan” at the SHRM website. Click here to read the full article.} A performance improvement plan (PIP), also known as a performance action plan, is a tool to give an employee with performance deficiencies the opportunity to succeed. It may be used to address failures […]
TIP TUESDAY: Handling Tough Conversations with Employees
{Excerpted from an article at SHRM online; click here to read the full text} Over the course of her HR career, Eileen Habelow estimates that she spent 80 percent of her time coaching managers and leaders on how to have difficult conversations. As the president of Leadership-Link, a Boston-based consulting firm that works with small […]
TIP TUESDAY: 40 Common Time Wasting Activities & How to Resolve Them
{from Business Know-How online} Start Managing Your Time Now Don’t wait another day to start solving your time management problem. The longer you wait, the further behind you’ll fall behind; the further you fall behind, the more stressful your situation will become. Here are 40 time-wasting activities common to most employees; how many do you […]
TIP TUESDAY: 5 Tips for Creating a Distraction-Free Workspace
Our world is getting more high-tech by the day. 77 percent of American adults say they own a smartphone, up from just 35 percent in 2011, and just over half of young adults (18-29-year-olds) say they live in a house with three or more of these devices, according to the Pew Research Center. Amazon recently […]
WORKFACT WEDNESDAY: Background Checks
{excerpted from CareerBuilder} Does it seem that your company often takes so long in deciding which candidate to hire for your department’s open position? Consider this: According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 75 percent of employers said they have hired the wrong person for a position, and of those who had a bad hire affect […]
TIP TUESDAY: 3 Tips for Recruiting and Retaining New Employees in 2018
{by Nick Murphy, CEO of Mid-America Careers for HR Daily Advisor online} As a small business owner, you’re living proof that the American Dream is still alive and well. You’ve taken the risks, made few enough mistakes to successfully grow your business, and now you find yourself fully engaged in a war for the kind […]
TIP TUESDAY: 3 Tips for Recruiting and Retaining New Employees in 2018
{by Nick Murphy, CEO of Mid-America Careers Friday – January 26, 2018} As a small business owner, you’re living proof that the American Dream is still alive and well. You’ve taken the risks, made few enough mistakes to successfully grow your business, and now you find yourself fully engaged in a war for the kind […]
TIP TUESDAY: What Went Wrong?
{excerpted from an article at SHRM online} Experts recommend that HR document what went wrong with bad hires and incorporate what was learned into the organization’s hiring process going forward. “A good hiring process requires not only preparation but consistency, documentation and continuous analysis of data so that successful methods can be captured and continued, […]
WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: 5 Big Benefits Trends Going into 2018
by Stephen Miller, CEBS for SHRM Online From the failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, to concern that tax reform will alter key employee benefits, what happened in the nation’s capital commanded much attention this year. But so, too, did the private sector, which provided benefits to meet a wider range […]