HR Services
Human resources leadership and support you can afford.
Business insights and important takeaways you can’t afford to miss.
whyHR is the human resources department organizations need, but your why is unique, so we offer all sorts of specific services, along with general support and counsel, to ensure we plug in – and fit just right – right where you need us.
Every decision, conversation, policy, and solution has to have purpose and intention. That starts with whyHR understanding your why.
Here are some of the ways we help our clients every day:
- Facilitating and/or assisting with sensitive conversations, employee relations, and discipline
- Investigating instances of harassment, discrimination, or other workplace concerns
- Developing and/or improving HR procedures and policies
- Setting up and/or managing your benefits and compensation strategy
- Creating and/or refining handbooks, employee communications, or other materials
- Ongoing or as-needed support by phone, web, email, or on-site
- Training, coaching, and/or advising your leadership team
- On-and off-boarding employees
Culture
Your people strategy affects your business strategy.
People are all we get – they’re the only thing that meaningfully distinguishes one business from another in its field. People make the products, the decisions, and deal with your customers. Navigating culture is tricky, though: It’s part art, part science, and truly, part understanding what different generations want and expect from the workplace and how they communicate with one another, too.
whyHR helps ensure the workplace culture you create and sustain for your people is healthy, productive, supportive, and equitable.
Compliance
As a business owner, you just don’t always know what you don’t know. You know?
HR compliance is one of the most important – and sometimes most intimidating – areas of business operations. We help businesses like yours navigate the constantly-changing and ever-necessary areas of compliance and regulations, including:
- Internal Revenue Service classification laws related to employees and independent contractors
- Department of Labor regulations surrounding wages, hourly/salaried employees, and unemployment benefits
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules about workplace safety
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations about workplace discrimination
Don’t get bogged down in the minutiae – hire whyHR and we’ll take care of it for you.
Policies
Make decisions proactively, with clear heads, before problems arrive.
Policy starts with planning – for growth, for struggles, for conflicts, and for defining the kind of employer you want to be for your employees. Policy is a broad term that covers anything you need to formalize about your business, from employee handbooks and benefit details, to job descriptions and disciplinary procedures.
whyHR takes a people-minded approach to policy development, evolution, and accountability, helping you articulate the things that are important for your business and need to be communicated to and for your team.
Running your business without thoughtful policies in place is like grocery shopping without a list: If you don’t go in with a plan, you’re bound to forget something you definitely needed and leave with some things you definitely didn’t.
Trainings, Public Speaking, and Workshops
Great leaders learn from great leaders.
There’s another way to learn, of course: From watching bad boss after bad boss make bad decisions, mistakes, and faux pas again and again.
Don’t be that boss – hire whyHR to help you, your leadership team, and the future leaders at your organization learn how to lead smarter, with clearer vision, more empathy, clearer policies, better reviews, more constructive feedback, and abundant collaboration where it’s needed.
We often speak on the following topics, though we’re always up for crafting something custom just for your team and its needs:
Harassment/Non-Harassment
For all employees, or just for leaders and supervisors.
Three Hats of Management
An outline and analogy of how to approach employees based on a desired outcome.
Positive Workplace Communication and Feedback Loops
Understanding how past workplace trauma informs the culture, behaviors, and communication needs of employees, leaders, and even clients.
Better Meetings for Better Engagement
We’ve all been in bad meetings, and maybe even led some ourselves. What went wrong? What can we do better? What kinds of planning and communication steps can we take ahead of time, during, and after the meeting to make the most of our time together?
Facing Fears Around Difficult Conversations
How to approach unpleasant, uncomfortable, or complex situations, and the liability risks of having – or not having – such conversations.
Culture vs. Subculture
We pull back the curtain on how businesses project one thing, but often struggle to live up to it internally. This session tackles the disparity between perception and reality, and needs to be done to better align them.
The Art of Interviewing
Consider your current processes, learn different perspectives and best practices, and discover ways to be better at interviewing, hiring, and all the conversations that can happen in between.
Performance vs. Culture
We help managers assess and understand the strengths and weaknesses of their employees, and apply practical leadership and mentorship techniques to steer their direct reports in the right direction.