Does your employee handbook need updating? You’ve come to the right place. Here is a handbook update checklist, including key updates needed for compliance and employee engagement. Read this for tips on how to create a handbook employees will want to read!

What is your 2023 People Strategy? What I mean by "people strategy" is what are your HR and Organizational Culture goals and plans to increase employee engagement and retention in 2023? Creating your People Strategy may seem like a daunting endeavor. To support you in your efforts, here are the succinct steps to take to build your 2023 People Strategy. These strategies can be applied at the organization level, department level, or even if you supervisor just one employee or if you supervise volunteers.

Creating systems for feedback (aka systemic feedback, continuous feedback, feedback loops, etc.) is a great way to make feedback with and among your team more frequent, effective, and comfortable! There is often discomfort that comes along with giving and receiving feedback, especially without having a lot of practice. Systemic feedback helps teams build trust, stay engaged, and work better together.

Watch this episode of The Nonprofit Show about "Creating Community in the Workplace." In this video, you’ll learn more about: Differences between teams that operate as a family vs. as a community; the best way to ask for employee feedback during the great reshuffle (aka the great resignation); and, 3 key priorities for retaining employees in this economy.

Not only is celebrating your personal accomplishments important, but celebrating yours and your team’s accomplishments together is a great way to team-build. Here are 5 teambuilding activities to help you and your employees start 2022 with positivity and purpose!

In the spirit of offering practical HR and leadership resources, in this blog post, I talk about solutions to 3 common workplace holiday challenges, including.... 1) How to navigate increased holiday stress in the workplace, 2) How to make your workplace holiday party COVID-safe, 3) How to be more inclusive at work during the holidays.

Building an engaged team, especially during times of uncertainty, takes focus. As a leader and small business owner, it takes the ability to set goals, leverage support from experts, and take consistent action. Read this for concrete actions you can take as a leader to build an engaged team, even in times of uncertainty.

Need help creating your compliant Hybrid/Remote Work Policy? Download the Free E-Guide to receive a checklist of the compliance issues your Hybrid/Remote Work needs to cover. Download your free E-Guide to receive: A checklist of what to include in your compliant policy, sample policy verbiage you can use for your policy, best practices, and more…

Who is responsible for setting boundaries at work? As we continue into this world of working remotely and hybrid work (working remotely some of the time + working from the office some of the time), boundaries are more important than ever. Read this for who is responsible for setting boundaries and how to set boundaries to increase employee retention.

Were you in a leadership position back in 2008? If so, you likely remember what it was like during the "great recession." And, you may also remember how challenging it was to recruit and retain quality employees after the economy started to improve. We are facing similar circumstances now as we emerge from the pandemic. Don’t lose your employees to the upcoming “turnover tsunami.” Prevent employee turnover through these 5 HR strategies.

Making sure a Nonprofit's mission and values are at the forefront of the employee experience, not just the client experience, is critical to a Nonprofit's overall success in carrying out their mission. Check out this episode of the Nonprofit Radio Show to learn best practices for investing in Nonprofit HR.

If you are anything like me, you tend to gloss over your accomplishments and move right into “goal setting mode” every new year.Before you move into "goal setting mode" for 2021, consider these small, but impactful ways to celebrate your accomplishments and to recognize the accomplishments of your employees:

Are you having trouble coming up with holiday gift ideas for your employees? Check out this employee holiday gift guide from Skye HR Consulting, LLC.

Work-from-Home Wellness Bingo is a fun way to interact with your remote team! Download your copy of WFH Wellness Bingo Here.

When I think back to all of the inspirational leaders I’ve worked for, they are very different people in terms of age, gender, socioeconomic background, education level, communication style, and personality. In fact, on a personal level, they are more different than they are similar. However, each one of them embodied these same characteristics.

A strong recruitment and retention strategy considers both hiring outside of the company as well as inside the company. Here are 7 proven strategies for how to create a “Promotion-from-Within” workplace culture.

In this blog post, I talk about why traditional annual performance reviews are problematic plus a free checklist on how to have effective performance “check-in” discussions with your employees.