Thoughts on HR

This blog isn’t about harassment training and a long list of things that training should cover. It’s about the importance of talking to your employees about it and making sure your company culture doesn’t support it. It’s also important to recognize that harassment is...

In many of our previous blogs, we’ve talked about being clear, concise, and consistent when it comes to employee matters. The importance of precedent directly aligns with consistency. Precedent is a simple concept, although not always easy for employers to follow. It...

Many business owners and managers struggle with addressing employee behavior. That struggle often stems from a fear of conflict, whether that conflict is in confronting the individual employee or creating a larger issue of conflict within the organization as a whole....

WhyHR is pleased to welcome Brittany Anderson to our team! Brittany will be supporting clients on the administrative side to ensure that all employee HR files contain the necessary paperwork and signatures and are well organized. Ensuring employee files are organized...

For the past three years, this company has operated under the name Vanguard Results. Naming a business isn’t an easy task, and I chose something that personally resonated with me and the fact that I wanted to offer a new approach to small business human resources. On...

The performance improvement plan is an important tool for any manager in any company, but it’s often misunderstood. Is a PIP a form of disciplinary action? Yes, somewhat. Is it the form you fill out because you eventually want to terminate someone? No. A performance...

Today’s workforce can include up to five generations: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation X, millennials (aka generation Y), and generation Z. It comes as no surprise that those generations may have different work styles and be motivated by different things....

Every company regardless of size should have an evaluation process for employees. There’s no single best practice for how to conduct evaluations, but they are a critical part of employee communication and company growth. It’s important to first know your company...

Congratulations, you’ve hired a new employee! You conducted a job analysis, created the right job description, eliminated some trolls early in the process, and found a great candidate because you identified the why during the interview. But the hard work of successful...

Business owners are typically great at talking about themselves: why they got into the business, how they are better than the competition, and what they are looking for when they hire employees. But when it comes to interviewing, talking about yourself and your...