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Trying To Keep Good Employees

January 18, 2017 by ces

You have grown your company, you now have more employees than ever before. Some of those employees have been with you for a while, other have just started working for you. Because you are no longer in a situation which allows you to work directly with each individual employee,( you’re outnumbered), you have to trust the other employees will impart the proper culture to the new employees. That doesn’t always happen, so maybe you need to implement an orientation seminar. Instead of you, the owner, conducting the training, perhaps you can charge one of your senior employees with this task. [Read more…]

Strategic Planning for Your Workforce

January 5, 2017 by ces

Strategic planning for your workforce involves several areas. The first is workforce retention. The last thing most business owners want to is lose key employees. But hwat do we do to entice them to stay? How many more people do you need? What kind of changes should you be making in the technology, both hardware and sfotware you use to run your business. Are there HR Policies which should be updated to reflect your larger workforce? Do you have HR Policies?

If you have been running a small Mom and Pop shop, but you are now running a company with 20 or more employees, I can pretty much bet that you don’t have everything in place to keep your company running smoothly. Things that worked well when everyone could easily communicate with one another, don’t work as well as your worforce grows.

You could use our help with both HR functons and Strategic Wordforce Planning. There is agreat articl on ADP’s website about just what that entails:

“…Keeping and developing talent, and making your organization a desirable destination, requires strategy.

What Is Strategic Workforce Planning?

There’s no clear consensus on a strict definition, but strategic workforce planning should involve ensuring that you always have the right people with the right skills to meet your organization’s goals.

According to study, strategic workforce planning aims to do the following:

Keep people from leaving
Plan for skills requirements
Bring in new people to close skills gaps
Identify and source critical talent skill sets
Create structure and processes
Ensure HR and overall strategy aligns

How HR Plays a Role

When it comes to who should be involved, the study shows that strategic workforce planning is usually seen as the responsibility of the C-suite. Just 28 percent view it as an HR function, according to the report. But to be effective, businesses need to narrow in on strategy and people. And HR is about people — recruiting, training and retention.

Recruiting

No skills gap can be resolved without HR leading the way. HR understands how hard it is to find skilled talent — especially in areas like IT and data science — and the cost to hire. They can encourage leaders to focus on developing and engaging current talent, which can be done by improving culture, training and benefits.

Training

As short-term skills gaps arise, maybe because of a new project, HR leaders are critical in helping organizations tap into the economy of talent-on-demand, another emerging HR trend. PricewaterhouseCoopers is already on this. The business recently launched the PwC Talent Exchange to connect independent professionals with its project teams, giving the organization a global talent pool to tap into as needed.

Retention

Workforce analytics gives HR leaders important insight and is becoming a valuable retention tool. “The mass of data now available allows companies to analyze which employees are most likely to leave and the suitability of job candidates in a more scientific manner,” the study reports. By using data analytics and benchmarking, HR leaders can engage and retain key talent before they leave a company.

Strategic workforce planning for HR will be critical to future growth in today’s evolving business landscape. Talent is more important than ever, and HR leaders have both the data and capabilities to be partners in any strategic workforce planning process.”

If this all sounds a little too much for the size of your company, we understand that, and we can scale many of these things to match your company’s needs and goals. The first step is to just make an appointment to come in and talk. Once We have an understanding of your goals and your management style, we can go from there.

Jennifer Comer

Complete Employee Solutions

Vero Beach Florida

January 4, 2017 by ces

Vero Beach Florida. Why do people like living here? Why are people moving here from all parts of the country? What is the attraction?

For some it’s our beautiful beaches, which are rarely very crowded. For others it’s our small town feel, even though Vero Beach is no longer a small town. Perhaps it’s the fact that our ocean front isn’t filled with towering high rises. It could also be that we are home to Historic Dodger Town. When people come to visit, young or old, often one of the first places they want to see is Dodger Town.

Could it be our unique history? Both Sebastian and Vero were lucky to have some pretty incredible characters move to town and cause some big things to happen. For Vero it was Waldo Sexton. For Sebastian it was treasure hunter Mel Fisher.

Waldo was originally a farm equipment salesman who fell in love with Vero Beach and because of that love and his innate creativity, he began developing tourist attractions like McKee Botanical Gardens, which in it’s hey day was park filled with exotic animals and all type of plant life. He found unique pieces of furniture, of wood, and built entire rooms around them. He seemed to have a love for bells. He would pick a piece of land, purchase it, and hire contractors to build whatever it was he desired. . I am not sure he ever used an official engineered drawing. That said, his building still stand today.

Vero Beach had the Dodger Training Facilities and when I say Vero Beach to people who are in the 50’s and older, the first thing they think of is Dodger town!. Dodger Town is no longer home to the Dodger’s spring training camp, but it hosts athletic training events for a multitude of sports teams and genres. From Baseball to soccer to tennis and more. It has become a place where people from all over the world come to train and play sports.

Our beaches are beautiful, and unlike to many beaches up and down the Florida Coast, we have just a very few tall buildings. the people in this area sought to keep the beaches beautiful and pleasant to use for everyone, and to that end they have not allowed the proliferation of high rises you see elsewhere. Our Ocean Drive area is lined with local shops and sumptuous restaurants, and don’t forget out park!

For someone who was not originally from here, I am also in love with the friendly and welcoming people who live here. When you move to Vero Beach or Sebastian, you don’t feel like a stranger for long.

Jennifer Comer

Is it Time for a Change?

December 14, 2016 by ces

I can’t believe its December already. In a couple more weeks we will be celebrating Christmas, and all of a sudden we are in a whole new year once again. Some years seem to drag on forever, until we reach the month of September, and then time just simply flies on by. [Read more…]

Technology and Recruitment

December 7, 2016 by ces

Before we started backing up to the cloud, using sharing mobile apps, dropbox, HR was the home of paperwork. But with the evolution of HR technology recruitment has become incredibly simplified. [Read more…]