Your company means the world to you. You’ve worked hard, nurtured it over the years to build a successful brand, quality product & service offerings, financial success and a work environment that is stable and enjoyable. A place where your team members can enjoy coming to work every day, be productive and be there best. […]
Category: Human Resources
Keeping Your Best Employees – Can You Afford Not To?
Top talent usually represents 10% of your employees. What would happen if your most valued employees left your company? The three top responses I hear are: 1. OMG, I don’t want to think about it! 2. Hmm, I’m not quite sure who they are. 3. I can replace them, no problem. Unfortunately, it’s not often […]
Orienting for Success – How to make your employees raving fans!
Recruiting employees takes a substantial amount of time and effort. Hiring the right employees is a significant investment that will create a positive, lasting impact for your organization. Hiring the wrong person will be a tremendous expense with the latest statistics showing that the cost of a wrong hire is 1.5 times the average salary for the person […]
Competencies – Why You Shouldn’t Work Without Them
As our world becomes more complex and our business needs change, clarity is harder to find but even more important in the recipe of success. As business leaders, we need to ensure that our team members (and ourselves) have the skills and behaviours required to thrive. A simplified approach to doing this is through the […]
Recruiting Right The First Time – The Best Investment You Can Make in Your Business
As a business owner, everything falls on your shoulders, you are extremely busy all the time and everything you do has to make a positive impact on your business. Recruiting is one of the most significant investments you can make in your business; if it’s done right, it’s a positive investment for years to come, […]
Recognition – Making it Work for You
We hear the word Recognition over and over and it is often associated with Rewards. Many employers shy away from an “R&R” program because it becomes extra work that has to be managed and therefore, too time consuming for them even to think about. However, recognition is at the root of who we are as […]
Compensation – The Key To Making It Work
Compensation is the biggest expense that employers typically have. It’s what attracts employees and, what we believe, keeps employees. It some cases it’s true and in some it’s not, however, what’s most important to employees is not necessarily how much they get paid but whether they believe they are compensated fairly for what they do. […]
Connecting Your Benefits to Total Rewards
Total Rewards are all the tools available to an employer that are used to attract, retain and motivate employees. They evolve from the corporate strategy and purpose and to be most effective aligned with your employee’s needs as well. Typically, we think of Total Rewards elements individually but once we start looking at them as […]
AODA – It’s Coming – Don’t Be Caught!
September is here and in some ways it signals the beginning of a new year. With kids back to school it’s time to get back to business and have a look at the year ahead. On the horizon of January 1, 2012 is the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act (AODA). What it is Ontario has taken the […]
5 Low Cost, High Impact Rewards
5 Low-Cost, Intangible Rewards That Can Have a Big Impact on the Bottom Line As HR Practitioners, we are truly transforming into Business Professionals with an HR Acumen. In the turbulent economic times we are getting a rapid lesson in Finance where we have been required to cut into the core of traditional HR programs […]