Podcast
HR Problem Solvers is a podcast for business owners, CEO’s, or any other professionals given the task of solving their company’s HR issues. The podcast is hosted by Mark Mitford, Managing Director of HR Catalyst Consulting. HR Catalyst provides proven HR solutions and people strategies to drive business success.

Employee Engagement – How It Impacts Your Business
Here we take a look at the 3 levels of employee engagement and how it affects performance, productivity and profitability. Research shows organizations with a highly engaged workforce outperform their competitors.

Compensation Strategy – Creating and Executing One for Your Organization
Making sure you have a clearly defined and consistent compensation strategy is critical to retaining, developing and motivating your employees. Compensation involves more than just salary. Let’s take a look at the need for external benchmarking, creating pay bands and pay grades and the importance of paying for performance.

Leading in Times of Crisis
It is the job of every capable leader to bolster their employees’ and organization’s resilience. These actions and behaviors can make you a more thoughtful and effective leader in times of crisis or the best of times. Sometimes going back to the basics of leadership can take you a long way in forging a path forward for your organization.

Employee Engagement – Specific Strategies
Top 10 things you can do to increase employee engagement in your organization. These simple no cost initiatives help you build the type of culture that naturally increases engagement. This translates into higher employee loyalty, job satisfaction and work productivity for your company.

Managing your top and bottom performers
Harrison Kim interviews Mark Mitford on managing your top and bottom performers.

Important Leadership Qualities
What are the most important leadership qualities to have? Here we will discuss a number of qualities that set leaders on the right course to drive team success.

Employee OnBoarding – It’s Not Just One Day!
Many companies think employee on-boarding takes place the first day at the company. If done properly, it takes place over the first 90-120 days of employment. Employee on-boarding done right shows an employee how their role fits into the company which increases employee engagement and retention. Implementing the ideas shared here can help decrease turn over and retain your hiring investment.

Strategic Planning – Look at the Forest, Not the Trees!
Many businesses focus most of their attention on the daily and weekly task or the “fire of the day.” With this approach your agenda and strategy go out the window! It is important to spend a set amount of time to work on the business, not in the business. Take a strategic perspective by doing a SWOT analysis to learn your organizations strengths, weaknesses (internal), opportunities and threats (external).

Great HR Strategies – The Key Drivers Behind Them
The most successful companies see HR as strategic versus administrative. Human Resources done right plays a critical role in determining great business results. Here are some specific HR strategies that can help your company realize its full potential.

Managing High and Low Performing Employees
It is vitally important for companies to identify high and low performers among the employee group. Your handful of top performers are the jewels of your organization. These are the people who are driving the success of your business. There are effective strategies for managing these two employee populations. Properly managing your talent pool will raise the performance bar in your organization and bring a higher level of productivity and financial success for your business.
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