How to Effectively Handle Employee Complaints
This is a guest post from Allison Hail. Allison has written articles for different sites on topics ranging from travel and lifestyle, to career and business, and has most recently collaborated with NZ businesses such as Keith Andrews. Even the smoothest-running workplaces will eventually be subject to occasional complaints from employees. Staff complaints are a warning sign to a range of problems: perceptions of favoritism, sexual harassment, or difficulty seeing eye-to-eye with a coworker, to name [...]
Professional and Conflict-Free Employee Termination Strategies
Terminating an employee is never easy. Nobody enjoys the process but it is a necessary evil of business. If handled correctly, employee termination doesn’t need to result in conflict. There are steps that all HR professionals, business owners or managers should take when letting go of an employee. Preparation for a Termination Meeting You can’t wing it when you’re dealing with employee termination. This is something that needs to be carefully planned and executed to [...]
Managing Difficult Team Members: 8 Strategies that Work
Team dynamics are often complicated and there are always one or two team members that are difficult to manage. Unfortunately, these people can bring down the entire team if the situation is not resolved. Fortunately, it’s not impossible to form a cohesive team, even with difficult personalities in the mix. Here are 8 strategies to manage difficult team members. Recognize that there is a problem Before you can address a problem, you need to recognize [...]
How to Effectively Match Employee’s Skill Sets With Job Roles
The success of your company relies on the skills of your employees. Putting the right person in the right job can be the difference between success and failure, not just for the employee but also for the project. Part of effective management is identifying your employee’s strengths, and weaknesses, and then assigning jobs and projects accordingly. Everyone has different skills. They excel at some things and fail at others. That is perfectly natural. The key [...]
How to solve 6 common HR challenges with technology
The soft skills of HR employees are valuable, but some challenges remain difficult to overcome without use of advanced technology. In response to growing demand for high quality HR solutions, there is a whole class of software designed to solve some of the most common issues in human resource management. Challenge #1: Reducing costs and time needed for IT support A major trend in the IT support niche is adoption of integrated technologies that are [...]