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. […]
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Creating Bonus Structures 101
You’ve been in business for a number of years and now it’s time to share the wealth with your employees. They helped build your company; you are confident with its direction and also know it’s time to design a formal bonus structure. This is a significant step and investment in your company. When designing a […]
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, […]
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 […]
Six Top Human Resources Tips
Each year marks change for us as business owners and leaders. We often don’t get enough planning time but it is a crucial aspect of our business success. With the lightning fast pace we live in, global economic impacts and demands and rapid technology shifts, sound Human Resource management is becoming an ever increasing important […]
A Fine Balance – How to Manage Stress Related Illness and Maintain A Productive Workplace
Stress related health issues are currently the leading reason for long-term disability claims, and are becoming more predominant on a daily basis. Longer hours, more complex work, tighter deadlines and a myriad of personal issues thrown into the mix will ensure that stress related illnesses don’t go away any time soon. As employers, on our […]
Recognition: A Critical Component of the Total Rewards Mix
During the past several years the concept of total rewards has advanced considerably. Practitioners have experienced the power of leveraging multiple factors to attract, motivate and retain talent; high performing companies realize that their proprietary total rewards programs allow them to excel in new ways. There are five elements of total rewards, each of which […]
Why Performance Management is Vital to your Positive Business Performance
We are coming out of tough times with signs all around us. Stats Canada May and June job numbers were up, houses are being built everywhere you look and auto companies are making profits. These are three of the major indicators of a rebounding economy. With that, employees who have been by your side through […]
Termination Best Practices
Although it appears we are out of the woods with significant layoffs for now, business as we have known it will not be the same for a long time, if ever. We will always be in a state of constant change and our staffing skills will be evolving regularly. Although we don’t want to think […]