by Kristen Ireland | Apr 22, 2019 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
I am in a laundromat watching the dryer spinning and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a manager just this week. Yes, seriously…….I am at the laundromat AND it does remind me of giving feedback to employees. Sometimes they both can make my head hurt...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 16, 2019 | Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
A husband and wife are sitting on their front porch one evening enjoying the night air. The husband says to the wife “In the moonlight teeth look like pearls”. The wife says “Who’s Pearl and what were you doing in the moonlight with her?” Misunderstandings can...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 15, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
It’s interesting to introduce myself as an HR person. I usually get the “oh, I better watch my language” or “boy, do I have questions for you.” The questions are usually centered around what policies and processes should be in place. This tells me that we are...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 11, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
So, where do you spend your time? I ask managers and supervisors this question a lot when discussing employees. Do you spend your time with your high performers or your problem employees? The answer I typically get from managers is that they spent more...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 4, 2019 | Build Relevant Skills, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
I recently read that 94% of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn (statistic from LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report). I am guessing your initial response to that was “yeah, but I don’t have the...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 25, 2019 | Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
How do you retain your best employees? What options do you have beyond just increasing an employee’s pay and crossing your fingers they don’t leave, taking a chunk of your customers with them? We understand that the lifeblood of small businesses are the relationships...
