For many of us, our thoughts are with our friends, family, and business associates as we nervously watch Hurricane Matthew as it continues its path along the coastal southeastern United States. The current situation in Florida and its neighboring states reminds me of our own Business Emergency Action Plan here at De Novo HRConsulting, and seems an appropriate time to encourage everyone to make sure theirs is up to date. Ours is a thirteen page document that includes: Emer

Did you know that October is National Work & Family Month? The majority of employees spend more waking hours at work than they do with their family & friends. Established in 2003, National Work & Family Month focuses on the challenges working families face every day to maintain work-life balance. Here are some ways you can promote work-life balance within your business or organization: Establish boundaries & encourage your employees to unplug. Minimize the amount of bus

This week’s email addresses pre-employment screening and background checks. There are a lot of stats out there about the importance of verifying applicant information and performing background checks, and here are just a few: 33% - 55% of candidates provide false or misleading information on their resumes 39% of all background checks include “red flags” or “issues” 10% of county criminal record checks include flags 9% - 16% of education verifications include flags 23

The truth is that your front-line supervisors will likely know about potential Human Resources and labor relations issues long before upper management - issues like favoritism, workplace safety, workplace harassment, discrimination, and bullying. If those same front-line supervisors are not trained to recognize these and other issues, you are exposing your company to an uneducated and potentially mishandled response, or perhaps even no response whatsoever. Such workplace is

With there being only thirteen (13) more days of summer, it will soon be time to start evaluating your company’s profitability during this historically slow season. Recognizing if your company has fallen prey to a slow summer cycle is the first step to potentially overcoming it. Clearly it’s an oversimplification to state that there are only two categories, but you might evaluate your company to determine which of these categories BEST describes the nature of yours: Your

This week’s blog is one that might be shared not only with members of your workforce, but with your business and personal associates as well. This video (see link below) was published to YouTube back in July of 2012, so you may have seen it before. It is short (only 6 minutes), and provides a recommended response plan should you find yourself in an active shooter event. In my opinion, it’s well done. Click here to view the video. The exposure is not limited to your own