Posts by Greg Henderson
Every business needs a love contract: A guide to office relationships
I was recently watching a show, and one of the characters was complaining to her boss saying “I work 6 days a week, 12-hour days, if not more, when do you expect me to find a relationship?” She was being reprimanded for dating a coworker and her supervisor explained that it was against the rules.…
Read MoreThe best way to write a job description that gets noticed
Creating an effective job ad is essential for attracting the right candidates to your business. It’s important, after all, a job ad is the first impression you will make with any potential applicants. What are you showing them if you copy and paste your job description into the ad, add a salary range and call…
Read MoreWhat is your ideal employee profile? Find out in 4 steps
Do you know what makes your best employee the best? It is a very interesting thought, and it starts with taking some very fluid concepts of traits, values, and character and applying very concrete definitions to them. What is your ideal employee profile? It kind of sounds like the beginning of a dating app info…
Read MoreHow to create a compensation strategy to attract and retain your ideal employee
Let’s be clear from the beginning: your compensation strategy may attract your ideal employee only if you are transparent, and it probably won’t help with retention unless you include a hard and fast system for growth. This article will explain why your compensation strategy needs to be published and smart. Your strategy should be published…
Read MoreHow to make your hiring process objective
Keeping Score is Easy, Rating People is Difficult Scoreboards, report cards, and ratings all have the same intent—to clearly identify who is achieving and who is underachieving. Scoreboards display the winners and losers without bias, so we all know who scored more at the end of the game—it’s clean and simple. Report cards give a…
Read MoreDoes size matter? Understanding your staff numbers
Company size is important to think through when it comes to running a business. When I was a kid, these are the numbers I memorized: 2222 and 355-5025. The first was my address (I was not allowed to leave the neighborhood unless I could recite the specific digits), and the other was my home phone…
Read MoreCreate Your Umbrella: values, mission, and people
What was your first job? This was an icebreaker question at a recent conference I attended, and the really cool thing was the group took off and ran with it. I soon discovered pool boys, babysitters, lawn mowers, farmhands, and pizza deliverers had worked hard, moved up, and made it to their current position today.…
Read More5 Mistakes to Avoid in your Employee Handbook
Have you ever been duped into buying something that you probably didn’t need because the salesperson was super convincing and they assured you that your life would be so much better with it? I have. It was a Kirby vacuum cleaner, and it was sooo cool. I bought it, and I purged our home of…
Read MoreFour huge reasons to transition your paper employee records to a digital platform immediately
Can you remember a time before cell phones? Honestly, what did we do? How did we find anything? I was trying to explain this novel concept to my daughter while we were cleaning out the garage this past weekend. I tried to convince her that life was better back before cell phones. I decided to…
Read MoreWhat Health Benefits Should I Offer My Employees?
Taking time to welcome in the familiar sounds and climate the autumn season brings, I can only help but get caught up in the idea that… football is back!!! And while I am preparing to watch from my favorite chair two “gladiators” attempt to destroy each other… I am unfortunately interrupted by a thought—no one…
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