Category: Human Resources

  • Key HR Metrics – What Should Your Business be Tracking?

    Key HR Metrics – What Should Your Business be Tracking?

    How does your organization measure the effectiveness of your human resource (HR) efforts? What key HR metrics demonstrate your success or lack thereof? After all, HR arguably holds one of the most critical roles in your company, managing your most valued business asset – your people. Successful HR leads to talent attraction, retention, employee development,…

  • Boost Your Employer Brand with these 8 Affordable Activities

    Boost Your Employer Brand with these 8 Affordable Activities

    Two critical elements of your company’s brand are your product or service’s value proposition and your reputation. Your employer brand plays a substantial role in your overall brand reputation. Is your company a coveted place to work? Do you treat employees fairly? Do you provide a space for employees to learn and develop? What is…

  • Hire for Potential over Experience – 5 Reasons Why

    Hire for Potential over Experience – 5 Reasons Why

    Organizations with open positions immediately begin searching for the best candidates with the most relevant skills and as much experience as they can afford. After all – your employees drive the success of your business. Plus, candidates with extensive expertise presumably onboard quickly with less training. But, finding candidates with the perfect experience and skillset may…

  • Enhance Company Performance With Your VOE (Voice of Employees)

    Enhance Company Performance With Your VOE (Voice of Employees)

    Listening is an essential skill in the workplace, especially when you want to enhance company performance. More important than many companies realize. In fact, according to the software company, Sideways6, over 34% of employees worldwide believe that their employers don’t listen to their ideas. A Gallup study shows 87% of employees feel disengaged from their…

  • Performance Management Software & How It Benefits Small Businesses

    Performance Management Software & How It Benefits Small Businesses

    Having a strong focus on and an ability to manage employee performance often results in business success. For employees to be successful, they need resources and support to perform their roles effectively and efficiently. Likewise, they need guidance, motivation, and consistent feedback. A robust performance management system could be just the answer! Effective performance management…

  • How Learning Management Software Impacts Business

    How Learning Management Software Impacts Business

    Training and career development are essential strategies for attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. In fact, according to Lorman, retention rates rise 30-50% for companies with strong learning cultures, and 70% of employees would likely leave their current job to work for an organization that invests in employee development and learning. Additionally, continual learning benefits your organization…

  • 8 Soft Skills to Look for in Your Next Hire

    8 Soft Skills to Look for in Your Next Hire

    Your clients or customers come to know your employees as the face and voice of your business. It’s imperative they communicate, interact, and build rapport with your customers. Doing so in a personable way is a coveted soft skill set. Not only do those skills impact external customers but also your internal culture. Employees understanding…

  • Small Business Staff Shortages – Strategies to Cope

    Small Business Staff Shortages – Strategies to Cope

    It’s no secret that the United States is facing staff shortages. Between the pandemic forcing different ways to work and, at times, instilling a fear of in-person working, coupled with an increasing number of early retirements and lower immigration rates, we have unprecedented numbers of job openings chasing scarce talent. The competitive labor market has…

  • Leadership Communication

    Leadership Communication

    Hello and thank you for joining me today. My name is Lisa Brock. I am the HR Business Partner here at Tandem HR and I will be taking you through the leadership communication webinar. So, thanks again for joining and we’re excited to be able to present this to you. Let’s jump in and start…

  • 7 Ways to Build Work Team Trust

    7 Ways to Build Work Team Trust

    Trust is the confidence that others around you will do what they say, when they say they will, to the best of their ability. Trust is crucial in all areas of life, but work team trust is essential to a thriving team environment. It builds strong and effective teams. Work team trust also brings many other…