HR Spot

Maintaining a drug-free workplace is critical for preventing accidents, reducing turnover, and protecting the safety of your employees.

Reasonable suspicion drug testing is a type of testing program employers use when they find evidence or make observations indicating an employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol at work.

Take a listen as we share helpful tips when it comes to suspecting an employee of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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Our experience with small business is that some brokers only push high commission products.  Does your benefits broker truly care about you and your business.

Take a listen as we share great questions to ask your current broker of if you are shopping for a new broker.

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Many employers have fears about training employees, believing the training will encourage employees to find other jobs.  It's true training and developing employees for future roles, but not training employees can create stagnation and boredom and may ultimately hurt your business.

Take a listen as we share more about the importance of training and development of your employees.

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We have two employees who don’t seem to like each other, and it is starting to affect their work. How do we help employees who don’t get along to work well together?

Navigating these HR waters can be tricky.  Take a listen as we help you with a few easy ways to address this.

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Have you heard about pay transparency? It’s the idea that companies should be open with employees and applicants about pay and, more broadly, what factors they include when making decisions about compensation.

It’s no secret that expectations around pay have changed, and employers need to pay attention. People on the lookout for a new opportunity want to see pay ranges on job postings, and some of them make it a practice not to apply if that information isn’t immediately available. Employees want more clarity about their own pay and how it stacks up relative to their peers, and in a tight labor market, they may hit the road or expend less effort at work if they don’t feel they’re paid fairly.

But pay transparency isn’t just about what current and would-be employees want. Their expectations have now made their way into state and local law. 

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The last few years have proved challenging for employers trying to fill positions. Low unemployment, among other factors, made the job market much more friendly to jobseekers than to employers keen to hire them. In this highly competitive environment, some organizations upgraded their compensation packages or experimented with other attractive perks, hoping to stand out as the best.

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While succession planning sounds like an overwhelming task, it’s simply a method of considering who your organization’s potential leaders may be in the years to come and placing them on a path to be successful in those roles. Future leaders will most likely come through a combination of promotion from within and recruiting sources from outside the organization—succession planning focuses on that first source of talent, your current employee base.

This podcast is intended to break down succession planning into simple steps to help you formalize a program within your organization.

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Everything DiSC Workplace® is a classroom training (in person or virtual) and personalized learning experience that can benefit every person in the organization— regardless of title or position—in building more effective relationships at work.

To learn more or book a session, visit https://azhrhub.com/training/

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Think about your favorite manager. Now think about what made them your favorite. Was it the success you earned while working with them? Your employer may have evaluated them based on metrics like team productivity or turnover rates. Great managers are usually good at leading productive, low-turnover teams, but those aren’t the things their employees remember.

So what about them left such an indelible mark on you? Perhaps this manager was easily approachable and worthy of your trust. Perhaps they effectively led your team through a major change and had your back the whole way. Perhaps they were always laser focused on developing their team—on developing you.

In this episode we will talk about the success of a manager.

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Everyone experiences grief at some point in their life, and yet for being such a common experience, it’s also one that few of us are fully equipped to navigate when it comes. In part, this is because grief is such an overwhelming and horrible experience. Nothing can prepare you for it. You just have to go through it and get through it. Grief is also a unique experience for each person. Everyone has their own path through its stages, and what helped one person work through their grief may not help another.

No one can make the grief easy, but there are ways to be supportive and to give people the time and space they need to process their emotions and find healing. We'll share  some ways that businesses and employees can support a grieving employee.

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