Human Resources For Small Business

Anne Donovan, President of Xenium HR, joins the HR for Small Business podcast to discuss her career in human resources and the role it played in business leading up to present day. The discussion later turns to the role HR currently has in business and people practices and where the focus of HR is going in the future. Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast Learn about Anne Donovan at http://www.xeniumhr.com/about-xenium/meet-the-team/anne-donovan/  

Need answers to your employee’s questions around Oregon’s legalization of marijuana effective July 1, 2015? This informative podcast featuring Suzi Alligood will provide you with information on the law and its implications for employers and their employees.  During the episode, you will take away the following: understand what Measure 91 really means for employers, review guidelines for developing and enforcing drug & alcohol policies, including testing and learn tips for communicating workplace expectations and policies with employees. This podcast episode is perfect for managers, human resource professionals and business owners. Resources:  www.oregon.gov/olcc http://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/Pages/Frequently-Asked-Questions.aspx http://www.barran.com/display-alert.asp?AlertID=293   Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

The onboarding process can have a significant impact on whether or not new employees “make it” in their new role. So what is onboarding, and why are employers talking about it more and more in their HR practices? Brandon Laws sits down with Molly Kelley of Xenium HR to discuss the traditional onboarding process and how employers are shifting to new, innovative onboarding practices to make sure employees properly onboard into their role and into the company culture. In this episode, Molly shares great takeaways for listeners and actionable items that can jump-start the onboarding process in any organization.     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Have you heard the term "employer brand" before? Do you know what it means and why there is a lot of buzz around this concept? In this episode, Lacey Halpern and Brandon Laws of Xenium HR discuss what it employer branding means and why plays an important role in attracting specific types of people to organizations. During the discussion, you will find out what employer branding is all about, what departments usually play a role in its development and how employers can use employer branding to find people that are a perfect fit for their organization.   Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Sheri Kuretich, a Human Resources Manager at Sunstone Circuits, shares how she and the leadership team at Sunstone built a successful wellness program for the organization that drove positive change in the culture and an improvement in overall health. During the episode, Sheri shares the reasons they started a wellness program, how they implemented it, the successes and failures they had along the way, and where the program will go in the future.     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast 

Ever wonder what it is like to create a set of guiding principles for an organization—the type that all employees believe in and live every single day they are at work? Brandon Laws sits down Joy McCormick and Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR to discuss the process of creating a set of principlesfrom first-hand experience. Brandon, Joy, and Lacey discuss Xenium’s set of guiding principles called “The Xenium Promise”, how it came about, what it means to them and how they integrate it into their daily business practices.   Discussion points: - What is The Xenium Promise? - Why create guiding principles in the first place? - What was the process like? Who was involved? - Finalized, what does it look like? - In what ways does Xenium use it?  - Do other companies have something similar? How do they use it?     Download “The Xenium Promise”   Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Alfred Dual and Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR join Brandon Laws for a discussion on ways to engage employees at work. The discussion is centered around a handout that shared ideas on engaging employees at work from a keynote presentation at the Portland Human Resources Management Association Strategic Management Conference titled "What's Brewing in HR." During the discussion, Brandon, Alfred and Lacey discuss engagement methods such as friday fun, huddles, ongoing learning opportunities, mentor programs and more!     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast 

In this episode, Brandon Laws and Tim Winner, Vice President of People at Metal Toad Media discuss the title “VP of People” and its role in an organization as it relates to HR and leadership.   Brandon and Tim discuss how focusing on "people" has fueled growth in Metal Toad Media’s business. Tim talks about how culture development, recruiting great people, and having philosophies instead of workplace policies were some of the main components of focusing on people.      Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss giving feedback to employees, being authentic and managing performance. During this episode, Lacey and Brandon discuss how giving negative feedback is better than no feedback at all, methods to give positive and negative feedback, types of feedback worth sharing, what is more appropriate—public or private feedback, why being authentic is important, how giving feedback can affect a relationship.

Tyler Meuwissen, HR Representative at Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss the book The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. During the episode, Tyler and Brandon discuss the main takeaways within the book, including: what it means to focus on "One Thing," why we should do fewer things instead of more, why multitasking is a lie, how to set and accomplish goals using "The One Thing" method, how to balance work and life.

Listen in as this podcast episode features a recording of the HR leader panel from the Attracting and Retaining Talent workshop Xenium hosted on April 16, 2014.The moderator for the panel discussion is Suzi Alligood, Director of Training & Development at Xenium HR. The three panelists are Susy Dunn, VP of People at Jama Software, Paige Jackson, VP of HR at Stimson Lumber Company and Tana Thomson, VP of HR at Xenium HR.This episodes features segments such as How HR can work with marketing to attract new talent to the organization, unique benefits that can attract talent and differentiate against competitors, practices that have been effective in identifying high potential employees, what small businesses are doing to bring innovation and change in order to attract and retain talent, professional and career development as a retention strategy

Molly Kelley, HR Business Partner at Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss developing for skills, training and a new program created at Xenium called XenTalks—which is an internal program intended to develop speaking skills. During this episode, Molly and Brandon discuss why employee development is critical to culture, the impact development has on an employee engagement, what Xenium is doing to develop for specific skills and the format of XenTalks and why it was developed.

Alfred Dual, HR Business Partner at Xenium HR, and Brandon Laws discuss the leadership book The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life by Robin Sharma. During this episode, Alfred and Brandon discuss the background of the book, what it means to be a Leader With No Title, how turbulent times build great leaders, the habits of leaders and how any employee can be a leader and spark change.

Lacey Halpern, HR Business Partner at Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss how to create and implement corrective action and performance improvement plans. During this episode, Lacey and Brandon discuss the ways to manage performance, including the difference between corrective action and performance improvement plans, how to implement each plan and the important ways to document and measure results.

Jan Foster, an Account Executive at Performance Resources, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss applicant tracking systems. During the episode, Jan and Brandon discuss how to implement applicant tracking systems, what questions to ask during the implementation process, creating automated "thank you" messages for candidates, search engine optimization (SEO) for job postings and much more.

Benjamin Prinzing, Principal at Kadalyst, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to talk about creating successful and effective wellness programs. During this episode, Benjamin and Brandon discuss: The overall importance and purpose behind wellness programs, activity-based and outcomes-based wellness programs, building a wellness program brand, encouraging participation and tracking results and planning for future programs.

Molly Kelley, HR Business Partner at Xenium HR, returns to the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss exit and stay interview processes. During this episode, Molly and Brandon discuss: the definition and purpose of an exit and stay interview, questions that should be asked in an exit interview, who conducts each type of interview, communication of results to the organization and how to develop a process around the exit and stay interview. Music Introduction By: “Cut and Dry Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/”

Iris Tilly, an Associate at Barran Liebman who specializes in employment law advice & litigation, ERISA compliance and HIPPA, returns to the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to follow up on the changes that have occurred in Health Care Reform, including: the delay of the employer mandate, Exchange Notice requirements, individual mandate regulations, employer requirements to establish measurement and stability periods, and the new same-sex marriage guidance from the IRS (DOMA). Music Introduction By: “Cut and Dry Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/”

Kim Smith, a Human Resource Business Partner at Xenium HR in Portland, Oregon, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss employee satisfaction surveys. In this episode Kim discusses: Effective tools for conducting satisfaction surveys, what kinds of questions should and should not be asked. how to encourage participation from all employees, analyzing and presenting results to stakeholders, and the difference between satisfaction and engagement surveys.

Rebecca Naatz, Senior Human Resource Business Partner, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss coaching and developing employee performance. During the episode, Rebecca explains the importance of coaching rather than simply managing, how this method can be used to further develop employees, and how managers can measure their effectiveness. In this episode: Characteristics of a servant leader How and when to use various leadership styles The role of emotional intelligence in the development of employees The important difference between transactional management and transformational leadership How managers and leaders can measure their effectiveness as a coach Host: Brandon Laws, Xenium HR Guest: Rebecca Naatz, Xenium HR Music Introduction By: “Cut and Dry Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/”