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Bad HR Habits That Could End Your Business

We all know that bad habits in our personal lives can lead to serious problems. From trying to adopt a healthier diet through to kicking cigarettes, most of us have experienced a time when we recognised that changes had to be made. But have you ever stopped to think about the HR bad habits that could be having a seriously negative impact on your business? Like many less than favourable behaviours, we sometimes don’t realise that they’re a problem until they’ve spiraled out of control. Here, we identify some bad…
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Five Mistakes That Business Owners Make with Employee Handbooks

According to a recent study by XpertHR, 92% of companies have created employee handbooks to share with their staff. But the finished document is about so much more than just listing your policies and sharing some mission statements that you’ve cobbled together over a cup of tea with your managers. Based on the statistics, you’ve probably made a token attempt at creating an employee handbook for your business – but are you missing the mark? Here, we uncover the mistakes that too many leaders are making, and explain how you…
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Six Ways to Raise Your Leadership Game This Week

Think that becoming a better leader involves attending intensive courses, gaining years and years of experience, or getting your head stuck into a textbook? Well, not necessarily. These things can all have their place, but it’s very possible to raise your game this week, by making just a few manageable changes. If you’re ready to step up to the challenge, then read on. We’re going to look at six practical game-changers that you can get to work with right away. Leave some unplanned time in your diary If you take…
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How To Welcome New Staff Into Existing Teams and save yourself over £30,000 in the process!

Recruiting a new member of staff for your growing business can be a really exciting time, but it’s something that you should definitely consider carefully before you rush into taking action. Getting it wrong costs over £30,000 per new employee, according to the Oxford Economics group when they recently conducted a study with SME’s about new employees joining their businesses. One of the key challenges that you’re going to face is ensuring your new recruit is welcomed into your existing team without any significant teething problems. Now of course, some…
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Four Tips for Managing Sickness Absence

It’s inevitable that from time to time, your members of staff will get sick. It’s that time of year now when flu, coughs and colds and viruses start making the rounds, and it’s to be expected, and it’s something that you can’t really avoid as you grow your business and your workforce. As an employer though, you need to be sure that you’re managing your sickness policies and procedures in the right way. Without a robust approach, you could quickly find that sickness absence is seriously damaging productivity, and in…
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How to Get Yourself Out of an HR Pickle

In an ideal world, we’d never have to worry about firefighting people issues within our businesses. We’d have perfectly crafted policies, highly skilled line managers, and an engaged workforce with individuals who are passionate about helping our operations to reach their full potential. Of course though, things don’t always quite work out this way. Pretty much every business owner has experienced some tricky HR issues during their career, and most would agree that they can sometimes come out of nowhere. Now’s not the time to point the finger though. If…
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Five Questions to Ask Your Employees This Week

If you speak to most employers, they’ll probably tell you that they have a pretty good grasp on what’s going on in their workplace. There’s small talk over sandwiches in the canteen, and important discussions in the meeting rooms. You probably feel like you have your finger on the pulse, and know exactly what’s going on beneath the surface. Here’s the thing though. If you want to excel, you need to go a little deeper. Want to have some more meaningful conversations this week? Ask the following questions: 1.How do…
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Three Reasons Why You’re Wasting Money On Your Recruitment Processes

If your business is growing and you’ve got more customers and clients coming through your doors, then you might be thinking about recruiting more staff during 2016. Of course, this can often be great news, and a real indicator that you’re heading in the right direction. But whether you’re completely new to the world of recruiting staff, or you’ve got masses of experience, you need to recognise that there are some costly mistakes that you need to make every effort to avoid. Even seasoned recruiters aren’t immune to wasting cash…
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Three Difficult Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before 2016

  By now, it’s highly likely that you’ll have asked yourself the big, important, and very obvious questions about how your business measured up during the past year. You’ll know how much you increased your turnover, how many new staff you recruited, and what your goals are moving forward. Planning and reflection sessions can be hugely useful, but sometimes, it can be easy to miss the less obvious measures of what you are and aren’t achieving. If you’re serious about making 2016 a success, you need to delve a little…
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How To Reward Your Staff This Christmas On a Budget

With Christmas creeping up on us, employees all over the country are pulling out the stops to ensure that they’re playing their part in driving sales and keeping happy customers coming back for more. In short, your staff are working hard to help you to get your business to where you want it to be. So shouldn’t you be rewarding them accordingly? Of course, this is where the age-old issue of managing a budget rears its head. In an ideal world, you could give your workers a generous cash bonus…
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