April 2024 was newsworthy for Human Resources! A few things to note as a business owner are: Hourly or Salaried? As you may know, when deciding if a position is hourly or salaried, you are required to use the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) test. One of the variables...
Ever feel like your team is running as fast as they can, but not advancing the ball? Or like you get to the end of your week, and nothing on your to do list is done (so you end up working yet another weekend)? There’s an easy answer – it’s called...
It’s so easy to pull back from training and coaching your people when the news is bad. The economy is uncertain. Interest rates are (still) high. It’s an election year. If you spend money on training your people, they’ll probably leave anyway – that’s the...
An HR compliance calendar is a valuable tool to help your business stay on track with key employment-related deadlines throughout the year. HR compliance is a complex area with many moving parts. Keeping track of HR deadlines during 2024 can help your business stay...
I don’t know who to attribute this quote to, but it’s really instructive for businesses: “Excellence is never an accident, it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution, and the vision to see obstacles...
The pandemic made a lot of employers lazy. Employees were grateful to have jobs, and were willing to put in all kinds of extra time and effort to keep things afloat. Then the pendulum swung in the opposite direction – during the “great resignation,” those burned-out...
When your company is doing your annual plan, doing a SWOT is a key step to make sure you focused on the right initiatives and have things prioritized properly so your people are working on the right stuff. A SWOT is a deep dive for both your business and your...
Year-End can feel crazy – you’re pushing the team to get every sale in the door, there are all kinds of benefits and tax planning decisions that need to happen, and it seems like every organization you’re involved in has a holiday gathering that you...
Now you have great people on your team – let’s keep them! It’s so easy to get caught up in the latest trend on how to retain employees – first it was Engagement, then Higher Purpose, now it’s DEI and Inclusion and hybrid working...
I’ve heard a lot of “we just can’t find good people” over the last few years, and in some respects that’s true. Wisconsin remains at a historically low unemployment rate – 2.4% as of June 2023. And yet, some companies seem to have...
