Best Practices

Context Switching: The Ever-Present Productivity Killer

Context Switching: The Ever-Present Productivity Killer

Running a small business is a balancing act: as a leader you need to stay focused on strategic initiatives but also deal with the important day-to-day challenges that arise. You need to delegate and oversee team performance but still execute your own to-do list. You need to do the best you can with limited resources while simultaneously building better systems and infrastructure for the future. You're required to wear different hats and juggle several priorities at once which inevitably leads to multitasking. 

Sometimes you feel like you’re doing a great job and other times you feel like you’re not getting anything done at all. Sound familiar? 

Interviewing and On-boarding for a Remote Workforce 

Interviewing and On-boarding for a Remote Workforce 

If you’re interviewing candidates or on-boarding new employees for a remote workforce, there are criteria and challenges to be aware of. Here are some ideas to help you create a successful interview and on-boarding process.

How to Determine the Right Mix of Benefits and Compensation for Your Staff

There’s more to benefits than salary and health insurance. Here’s everything you should consider as you’re looking to attract and retain talent.

3 Things that Don’t Look Like HR Problems But Actually Are

Unwritten rules, multi-tasking employees, a sense of shared purpose – these things can be essential to getting a business off the ground. But they can also cause major problems as you start to grow.

In this blog post, we’ll address three common DIY scenarios that can lead to HR-related problems, along with ways to solve them.