HR Empowerment

HR THIS - Create a candidate and new hire experience rather than expect candidates to wow the company to get the job, NOT THAT. In a candidate market, it forces small businesses to look inward at what changes need to be made to attract and retain employees. As a small business, keep in that if you are having trouble with finding candidates and retaining talent, it’s probably not that talent pool t...

HR THIS – Re-visit policies and make them applicable to the current culture and workforce rather than keep things as they have always been, just because, NOT THAT. Ask “Why” when it comes to workplace policies and if you can’t come up with a practical reason why they are in place, either ditch them or revise them.

HR THIS – Open and transparent communication rather than one-way, top down communication, NOT THAT. Communication has been an issue in the workplace for decades. It seems that it always ends up number 1, if not in the top 3 complaints of employees in the workplace. Now that more workforces are remote or hybrid, overcommunication should be a goal.

Get to know the team and pay attention to what they say and don’t say rather than assume that no news is good news, NOT THAT. We need to move away from the stagnation of a workday and incorporate more experiences for employees. Shifting from process to supporting passion and igniting creativity is a great way to create employee engagement.

HR THIS – Ask employees what would like to see from a benefit package rather than assume or follow a trend, NOT THAT. Benefits within an organization need to meet people where they are so it’s important to look outside of traditional benefits and look at more non-traditional benefits.

We have all dealt with Passive-Aggressive people. Gain insight into how to deal with that effectively.

Gain insight into how to stay assertive even when it is difficult.

Learn to identify crucial patterns that will help you level up your communication skills.

Understand the foundation you will need to build your assertive communication skills.

You can't master assertive communication if you don't know what it is.

Authentic leadership, self-accountability and ‘8 tips to improve communication.

Understand personality traits and how yours just might annoy someone.

Try on a new personality style: acting lessons.

Detailed explanation and a deeper dive into 12 personality sub styles.

Understanding personality styles and traits in order to build better work relationships, reduce turnover and improve communication and productivity

Employees just don't care. Would you care about someone (or a company) that did not care about you? The days of “just do what I say or you won’t have a job” are long hone (and good riddens)! People at all levels of the org chart expect more from their employers. We will discuss effective employee engagement in order to get stuff done.

Employees have an entitlement mentality. A safe workplace, decent wages and mutual respect is not entitlement. In this session, we will openly discuss both manager expectations as well as employee expectations.

Employees have no common sense. Expecting miracles and the acquisition of skill via osmosis is ridiculous. Today, we will discuss using skills assessments to properly align individual candidates and employees into the right job.

Employees make so many mistakes. Again, osmosis and mind reading is not a thing with human beings. We will dive into training and development methods in order to remove as many mistakes from the workplace as possible.

Employees don't listen. We are human beings, not robots - so there is not “one solution” to the question: how do we get our people to listen? We kick off this series discussing communication strategies for managers. Half the battle of getting people to listen to us is learning how to communicate with them (not at them).