What Small Businesses Need to Know About FMLA

what small businesses need to know about fmla

Owning a small business can be stressful, especially when making sure you are compliant with all the laws and regulations. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a probably something you’ve heard about, but do you understand what it is? How do you determine if you have to offer it? There are many questions […]

What is a Human Resource Manager?

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Because the structure of human resources departments depends heavily on so many factors: company size, employee distribution, public versus private companies, and so on, the roles within human resources tend to be less well-defined in a broad scope. With some positions, like human resource manager, the description is typically based on the functions of that […]

How to Motivate Your Team Without Deadlines

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Motivation and productivity are nightmare topics for many project managers. There is a fine line between productivity and procrastination that depends solely on the inner working relations between coworkers. This issue becomes more prevalent if there is no deadline to speak of, meaning that there is no rush to get anything done. When there is […]

How To Best Support New Hires

how to best support new hires

I put a question out into the universe a couple months ago asking HR pros what they would like to read more about. One of the responses I got was how to best support new hires and I love this topic! Even though I work in HR, I’ve been through very different ends of the […]

#HRTechConf: How HR Buys Their Human Resource Technology

How Human Resources Buys Their HR and Workplace Technology

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you already know that one of the things I get fired up about it the selling, marketing and engagement process between human resources and recruiting professionals with industry service providers and vendors. In my personal opinion, there is a great deal of misinformation about […]