An HR Pod Assigned to Your Business
DAY TO DAY HR SUPPORT
Banish the headaches of managing the monthly HR functions, while ensuring an amazing employee experience through hiring, on-boarding, role integration, thriving at scale, and off-boarding well. Our monthly HR retained services are focused on the full life-cycle of the employee journey, as well as the support of your leaders. We provide assistance to help them navigate hiring decisions, on-boarding plans, day-to-day HR tasks, legal compliance, and employee transitions. Our monthly retainer package also includes our HR technology platform, ensuring seamless service delivery.
DAY TO DAY HR SUPPORT
Banish the headaches of managing the monthly HR functions, while ensuring an amazing employee experience through hiring, on-boarding, role integration, thriving at scale, and off-boarding well. Our monthly HR retained services are focused on the full life-cycle of the employee journey, as well as the support of your leaders. We provide assistance to help them navigate hiring decisions, on-boarding plans, day-to-day HR tasks, legal compliance, and employee transitions. Our monthly retainer package also includes our HR technology platform, ensuring seamless service delivery.
CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK
Are your business policies fragmented and disorganized? Are you uncertain whether you are fully compliant with current HR legislation? We help businesses to create a customized handbook that is easy to read and accessible, keeping all relevant information in one place. Our team will also ensure that your handbook addresses all critical HR law requirements, while clearly identifying the expectations of your business practices. Our handbook building process is tailored to your business’ specific needs and takes about 4-6 weeks for full implementation.
CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK
Are your business policies fragmented and disorganized? Are you uncertain whether you are fully compliant with current HR legislation? We help businesses to create a customized handbook that is easy to read and accessible, keeping all relevant information in one place. Our team will also ensure that your handbook addresses all critical HR law requirements, while clearly identifying the expectations of your business practices. Our handbook building process is tailored to your business’ specific needs and takes about 4-6 weeks for full implementation.
TALENT ACQUISITION ACCELERATION
Having conducted hundreds of interviews for 75+ unique roles across 16 industries, we have become proficient in dissecting first impressions and effectively evaluating a candidate’s true abilities and likelihood of thriving in the long-term. We help our clients to make better hires, by accelerating the talent acquisition process and supporting clients through role evaluation, job posting, LI searching, shortlisting and selection.
TALENT ACQUISITION ACCELERATION
Having conducted hundreds of interviews for 75+ unique roles across 16 industries, we have become proficient in dissecting first impressions and effectively evaluating a candidate’s true abilities and likelihood of thriving in the long-term. We help our clients to make better hires, by accelerating the talent acquisition process and supporting clients through role evaluation, job posting, LI searching, shortlisting and selection.
HR LAW ADVICE
The HR landscape is continuously changing, and it is often overwhelming for business leaders to keep up with the many new legal and compliance requirements. With the added complication of remote work, vaccine regulations, and employee relationships across multiple national jurisdictions, the need for sound and current legal practice and advice is vital. Our team provides clients with reliable HR law advice based on extant and relevant experience working with a variety of businesses across Canada. We will work closely with your retained HR lawyers or use our own bench of HR experts, pulling in specific expert advice as needed.
HR LAW ADVICE
The HR landscape is continuously changing, and it is often overwhelming for business leaders to keep up with the many new legal and compliance requirements. With the added complication of remote work, vaccine regulations, and employee relationships across multiple national jurisdictions, the need for sound and current legal practice and advice is vital. Our team provides clients with reliable HR law advice based on extant and relevant experience working with a variety of businesses across Canada. We will work closely with your retained HR lawyers or use our own bench of HR experts, pulling in specific expert advice as needed.
BAMBOO HR IMPLEMENTATION
BAMBOO HR IMPLEMENTATION
Are you looking to streamline and modernize your HR practices or processes? Or have you purchased Bamboo HR platform, but have not fully implemented the software or are only using a portion of its potential? We are an exclusive Bamboo HR provider, and we assist mid-size businesses in setting up, customizing, and managing their day-to-day Bamboo HR system. Full implementation takes about 8 weeks from launch.
HR Resources
It’s Kind of Like Beachball Coaching; Bouncing Back Ideas & Resisting Advice Giving
I once coached a CEO when one of their VPs interrupted to ask what colour the boss wanted the office painted.
The CEO offered their opinion and then refocused on our conversation. I responded, “Do you really feel that picking out paint colours is a wise use of your mental energy as CEO?” Their counter was, “I don’t stop to think about it much. If someone asks me for my opinion, then I give it to them.”
Oh, the double-edged sword of leadership. Senior leaders must become exceptionally good at making decisions with limited data and be comfortable just making the call. Overusing this style can create a check-in culture where the team becomes overly reliant on the boss’s opinion and hesitates to move without consultation.
It’s Kind of Like Coaching Poolside or Chairside; Coaching In The Moment or Another Time
Coaching can be intimidating to both novice and experienced leaders.
For the recently trained manager, there is pressure to provide good coaching to their team, but uncertainty and fear about how to do it correctly.
The truth is that bad coaching is better than no coaching, and the only way to improve is to keep experimenting with different tactics. I encourage leaders not to put a lot of pressure on themselves and to rarely, if ever, say, “Let me provide you some coaching on this.”
You don’t need to announce that you are coaching for it to be effective; it is better if you don’t.
Coaching can be done in the moment, like during a meeting, while observing a task, or in a more planned setting, like a one-on-one. Both approaches have benefits.
It’s Kind of Like Elastic Band Coaching; Stretch, Aim, Release
The goal of coaching is to motivate others and expand their thinking and skills. While feedback is a corrective exercise, coaching is a tool focused on growth and development.
I liken the act of coaching to stretching and shooting an elastic band. The psychological process that coaching involves is exactly this. The objective is to create tension between the current and future desired state and clarity as to where to go next in your direct report’s mind.