Services

Employee Handbooks

Keeping quality employees requires constant attention, creativity & innovation.  Your Employee Handbook is a guidebook to the organization’s policies, practices and procedures. It helps employees to know what to expect & provides them with a sense of security in knowing what to expect.  Many employers fear that an Employee Handbook will tie their hands in managing the company. However, just the opposite is true if the Handbook is done properly. It should be a reflection of the company’s vision and culture. No two organizations do things in exactly the same way.  Your handbook should be written to reflect what is unique to your organization. Some areas of employment are regulated and certain tenets need to be communicated to employees. In other areas of employment the employer has much freedom to implement policies that will work for the company while being legally compliant. As a trained and practiced policy developer, HRConnection has developed a variety of policies, particularly in the area of employee benefits, that are beneficial to both employer and employee.  It is also important to fully reflect all of the benefits to employees – these may include employee discounts, a fitness room, wellness programs, etc.

In addition, HRConnection will review your current policies and/or handbooks to ensure compliance with employment laws, as well as develop new policies or re-design existing policies to promote employee retention and assist in attracting top talent.

Talent Management

To be the best you must hire the best.  Attracting, hiring, managing and retaining the area’s top talent – the best people for the positions you have open. 

Talent management begins with attracting and recruiting the best people for your company.  It is crucial that these employees fit into the organizational culture you have created. To hire someone who has a tremendous skill set but does not fit with your organization will result in a lack of productivity and turnover. To borrow the Southwest Airlines recruiting motto – Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill.  Defined best practices in hiring will result in ensuring you are bringing the right people into the right jobs.

Once you have attracted & hired these employees, how you bring them into the organization will greatly impact how they perform in their job.  This is the process of Onboarding.  The first year in a new job determines much - whether a new employee will stay, their level of productivity, their level of commitment to the company and engagement in their job.  Making new employees feel welcomed and valued, providing the resources and training they require and assimilating them into their team and the organization from the outset is key to their future success. 

Employee development  throughout the tenure of the employee with the organization will keep the employee engaged & working at their best, resulting in high productivity and a positive impact on the bottom line. In a recent survey, this ranked in the top 3 priorities of employees.  Effective employee development results in high retention and low turnover, absenteeism and presenteeism* and the corresponding loss of productivity. Performance planning and management are important parts of employee development.

*Presenteeism is an industry term that refers to employees who come to work but spend their time doing the minimal amount of their job and in other less than productive ways, e.g. web surfing, social networking, etc.

Once an employee is leaving the organization, it is important to end the relationship in a positive manner. Exit interviews with departing employees will help your organization to continue to improve in its employee relations. Maintaining positive relationships with retirees and employees who have professionally moved onto other opportunities, will keep positive word of mouth about your company  in the market as well as keep the door open to the employee should they want to return.

When it is time to transition an employee out of the organization, assisting them through the transition will help both your company and the employee. Outplacement services provide the employee with resume and cover letter writing help, interview techniques and tips, and assistance in navigating the job market and various resources such as LinkedIn.  By helping your employee transition out of your organization you keep your unemployment costs controlled as well as limit the negative buzz about your organization as this person speaks to others including your customers, potential customers and potential employees.

Compliance

From your first contact with a job applicant until their last day of employment, state and federal regulations govern nearly every aspect of the employee/employer relationship. The cost of not being in compliance with relevant employment laws can be staggering.  Most of the time, non-compliance is due to owners and managers not fully understanding the many and varied employment regulations that govern their business. Many employers with fewer than 50 employees believe they are not on the radar of employment law at all.  However, employment laws affect businesses with as few as a single employee. And as your company grows, the number of regulations you must comply with grows as well.  With HRConnection you don’t have to go it alone.

At HRConnection, we recognize the essential nature of this aspect of our field.  This is the most crucial thing we do. It is also how we earn your trust.  And we are 100% committed to it.  Most HR professionals struggle just to keep up with their day-to-day responsibilities. They use periodic seminars, annual legal updates and HR news alerts to stay in touch with the ever changing landscape of employment law.  At HRConnection we do this on a daily basis.  This allows us to bring the most up-to-date information to our clients.

Our compliance services include:

• Employee handbooks
• Management and Employee Training
• Performance Appraisals, Performance Improvement Systems, Employee Development and Counseling
• Human Resources Consulting and Outsourcing
• Compliance Audits

Running a business requires more than providing a product or service.  As you grow that business, you need to have a human resources partner you can trust to provide accurate and effective solutions for all aspects of your business, including compliance-related questions and issues that arise.

Our goal?  To become your trusted partner and resource, allowing you to focus on growing and improving your business performance.

Training

Learning and Development is the hidden key to success of winning companies.  Effective training will help your company to stay on track with its business goals and maintain your competitive edge in the marketplace.  Managers will manage their employees more effectively, leading to higher employee engagement and higher productivity levels.  Employees will understand your company’s commitment to a workplace that works for everyone.  This, too, will lead to happier employees who will bring more to the job every day, as well as be far less likely to sue their employer.

We design and develop training that works for your organization and your unique staff. Our training seminars will help:

• Support your company’s success through effective delivery of a targeted message
• Keep your staff aligned with the company’s core values, leading to high achievement and business growth
• Support your recruiting efforts, bringing in the best people for your organization who are uniquely suited to their roles within your company
• Avoid compliance issues
• Improve manager and supervisor effectiveness
• Improve employee morale

We provide learning seminars in:

• Preventing harassment and discrimination
• Diversity
• Basic HR for managers
• Successful recruiting, including Behavioral Interviewing
• Performance management, including corrective action plans and employee counseling and coaching
• Leadership Skills
• Teambuilding

Investing in your managers and employees through learning and development keeps your staff moving forward together, excelling in performance, and winning at business.