Getting Your House in Order for 2025

As the new year begins, thoughts turn to resolutions, new beginnings, and making changes for 2025. In our attempt to get the year off to a great start, we stand back and evaluate where we have been, where we are going, and how to get there.

For business leaders and small/middle market business owners, it is even more important to evaluate current efforts to ensure future success. Having your HR house in order goes a long way in solving many of the other issues that come with leading and running a business.

You can grade the current condition of your company’s HR performance by taking this quick online audit/assessment. This audit will identify weaknesses and areas for improvement in your human resource processes.

By considering the questions here, you can quickly see if your company has the right HR processes in place to position it for future growth and success.

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Does your company have a Vision, Mission and Core Values? Are they clearly communicated and understood by all employees? Does your company have a leadership led company culture?
Would you rate employee engagement as good at your company? Does your company have an effective employee onboarding process for new hires? Do you have a leadership training program for new leaders within your organization? Do you have a performance review/evaluation process that is working well? Do you know who your high and low performing employees are in your organization? Do you have a talent retention strategy for your high performing employees? Are you focused on your low performing employees to improve their performance or possibly terminate them if necessary? Does leadership have a well thought out compensation strategy including merit increases, bonuses, and other types of employee rewards? Do you have measures in place to control employee turnover and keep it low? Do you have a succession planning process in place to identify and development the future leaders within your company, especially if your top leaders are close to retiring? Do you have job descriptions for all positions within the company that reflect job duties accurately? Has your employee handbook been reviewed and/updated in the last 2 years by an HR professional or labor attorney? If you answered No to two or more questions above, it would be beneficial for you to schedule a call for a complimentary consultation to discuss possible HR solutions for your company. For 20+ years, I worked for Fortune 500’s and middle-market companies that used the best HR practices. Twelve years ago, I decided to take this experience and expertise to middle market businesses to help them raise the bar of HR excellence in their own companies. Getting your HR house in order offers huge benefits to the success of your company and is easier than you think by focusing on a few key areas at a time. Make 2025 a great year by raising the bar of HR excellence in your business.

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Small and medium-sized businesses may not have the time or expertise to implement the necessary people strategies for business success. The ideas above can be easily implemented by you to help improve the performance of your employees which leads to increased employee engagement and increasing the bottom line. We are here to help you with the people side of your business: employee engagement, retention programs, performance management, vision, and strategic plans, leadership development, selection & onboarding, compensations programs, organizational design, employee handbooks, core values, and all things HR-related.