HR Thoughts, Trends & Tips2024-02-14T14:10:45-08:00

A Collection of HR Thoughts, Trends & Tips

Get a Superhero in Your Corner and Help Employees Navigate CO-19 Health Insurance Claims

By |June 8, 2020|

As we all get back on our feet from Quarantine, the next wave of challenges we face will be medical bills and understanding health insurance costs related to COVID-19 (CO-19). As a business leader, you want to get employees happily back to work and engaged in productive company goals. Nobody wants to get caught up in ongoing questions around health insurance benefits, especially for CO-19 care or testing. LA County offers ‘free testing,’ but what happens when an employee winds up with an unexpected bill from the testing facility, or any bill for medical care that they didn’t expect? Having employees saddled with such concerns compounds the worries they may have about returning to work. We spoke with three industry experts to find out how you can support employees with health cost concerns at this time. […]

710, 2017
Consumerization of HR

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Technology|

There’s a lot of buzz around “the consumerization of HR” but what does it mean? Jeanne Meister, an expert in HR technology, described it as how companies are creating a social, mobile, and consumer-type experiences for employees inside the company. Think about your most used mobile apps and how they make life is easier i.e. Postmates recommends what you may want to eat, Netflix suggests what movies you may be interested in and Instagram knows [...]

610, 2017
What’s #HotinHRT – HR Tech Talk

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Technology|

4 more Strategies to Boost your People Power using Tech The 4th industrial revolution #4IR is here and the future of work is digital. While tech gets the spotlight in #The Internet of Things people will still lead the way. People who are equipped and empowered with Artificial Intelligence #AI to make smarter business decisions. […]

210, 2017
CA HR Conference. Relevent or Remake?

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

For most attendees at the recent #CAHR17 HR Conference in Long Beach, it was a real commitment to attend and, as always, an objective to extract practical wisdom to apply back at the office. It helps that the Long Beach conference venue is a beautiful beachy coastline. Even so, we — in HR — are serious people and we are at the conference to be inspired, get updated and meet-and-mingle with our peers. The breadth [...]

409, 2017
“Landing Great Talent Early On – Are Internships Worth It?”

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|

When I graduated from college back in the early years of the 21st century, internships were not a “must-have” for most employers. College graduates wanted to get in to a job and start making money, and employers wanted qualified employees walking in their doors. So what does that mean for the less experienced college graduates who are anxious to get started in their chosen career path but also need to pay their growing pile of [...]

1708, 2017
Training Your Crew

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation, Learning & Development|

At least one day per year, as required by the FAA, pilots and aviation crew attend training focused on lessons learned from accident reports, how to respond to emergencies, briefings on changing federal and company regulations and how to resolve or diffuse customer relations conflicts. Given the rapid pace of issues the aviation industry is faced with, one day per year is not sufficient but a mere single step in a multi-stage recurrent training program [...]

3107, 2017
Onboarding or Integrating Executives? How to do it Right

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|

Does your organization have an onboarding process for new hires? Do you remember to afford  your new executives the same privilege. While the job you foresee for an executive is different from that of most new hires, these new folks  are just as unfamiliar with your organization as the trainees.  In 2015 Snapchat lost eight  senior executives with only one lasting past the eight-month mark.  While turnover among leadership is not unusual for a startup, [...]

2407, 2017
Top Trends in Recruiting: How to Find Your Superstars!

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|

“Hiring the right people takes time, the right questions, and a healthy dose of curiosity.”   Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group As soon as skilled talent becomes scarce, recruiting takes on more of a marketing component than ever before.  The way to find your talent is to be where they are and your seasoned recruiter will know where to find it.  IT managers for a disruptive start-up firm? HR veteran in the healthcare industry? It’s [...]

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