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Welcome to the Knowledge Center
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College or Tech Schools
Too many times individuals believe that they need to go get a 4-year degree in order to be successful in their life. To some extent, this isn’t incorrect. Not only do people go to college because it’s what their parents want and think but they go through the college process and never use what they…
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Behaviors – Hiring, Performance Management, Company Culture Breakfast Discussion
Join HR Live for stimulating conversations on building your management and leadership teams around the company culture. Each month we will host a breakfast discussion on different topics within the human resources industry.
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Reference & Background Checks
In today’s fast-paced business world, organizations must increase their focus on improving the quality of hires. One of the most critical and difficult steps in the recruitment process is verifying a candidate’s qualifications, work experience, and suitability for the organization through background checks and references.
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Is DEI Still Needed in Organizations?
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are still necessary in organizations. Despite significant progress in recent years, challenges remain that underscore the ongoing need for educating the workforce.
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The Importance of Taking Your PTO
In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive work environment, it’s all too common to see employees pushing out their time off. Since summer has started and everyone usually schedules their time off normally from Memorial Day to Labor Day it’s important to encourage our employees to use their time. As in most work environments, the higher…
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Navigating the Waters of Difficult Employees
Managing teams comes with built-in challenges, and among them is dealing with difficult employees. Whether it’s conflicts with colleagues, poor performance, or attitude problems, these situations can disrupt workplace harmony if not handled effectively. As a leader, it’s essential to address these issues promptly and constructively. As managers, we spend 80% of our time dealing…
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Succession Planning: Securing the Future of Your Organization
In the ever-changing landscape of the business world, one constant remains: change. As Leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure the continuity of our organizations, even as key individuals transition out of their roles.
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Succession Planning
Succession planning is a process that very few companies do well. The keys to succession planning are creating a process including areas to evaluate each candidate and you need to stick to it for that period.
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Employee Retention
Employee retention is critical to the success of an organization. High turnover rates are costly and can affect the organization in many ways. Not only does it create productivity issues, but it also hurts morale and future recruitment efforts for the organizations.
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Auditing your HR Program, Policies, and Procedures
As we start the new year, it might be a good time to review your HR program, including your policies and procedures. Too many accept the status quo and never consider modifying, dropping, or adding new policies to address today’s work environment.
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Are Compensation and Benefits Earned or Entitled?
When does a benefit earned become a benefit entitled? In many businesses, all employee benefits start as earned. That can include healthcare coverage, time off, annual increases, savings plan contributions, and bonuses, even work schedules.
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Setting Performance Expectations
As we start the new year and think about achieving success for the company and as individuals, it is important to set targets and expectations to measure performance. Many businesses look at the overall performance or year-end results and consider how to measure this, and how various aspects should be weighed based on their importance…