HR CONSULTING

You may not always be current with employment regulations, but we are. It’s our job to know how the most recent legislation affects your employment policies and the way you do business. Whether the changes affect FMLA, ADAA, Maine FMLA, or Employment-At-Will, we will provide guidance on changes your organization should make to be in compliance.

You cannot hold employees accountable if you haven’t laid out your expectations in a job description. Allow us to assist you by providing guidance through templates and text. A job description sets the tone for employment and provides much-needed documentation should you be faced with a discrimination, disability, or workers’ compensation claim.

Having a well designed compensation plan that is communicated appropriately to your employees is an important tool in creating an Employer of Choice culture. We take many things into consideration as we build your organization’s compensation plan such as external market conditions, internal equity, and the organization’s ability to pay. By providing your employees with a compensation plan that is thoughtfully communicated, you are creating employee awareness, loyalty, and commitment to mission.

One of the most important jobs you have as a manager is to hire the right fit for the job. Consider not only skills, experience, and education, but fit with your organization’s mission and values before making an all-important hiring decision that could affect your company’s bottom line for years to come. Not only will we assist you in your hiring process, we will train your hiring managers so they will have the skills they need to identify candidates that are the right fit for your organization.

Once you’ve laid out your expectations, you’ll be poised to hold your employees accountable. It’s important to do this daily, in an informal way. Once a year you’ll want to sit with your employee and document, through a performance evaluation, the progress s/he has made throughout the evaluation period as well as expectations going forward. Documentation is key and having a well-crafted performance evaluation tool will guide you through this process.

So often organizations don’t hold employees accountable because they don’t know how and because they don’t have the tools they need to do it. We have developed these tools and will walk your managers through the process and help them develop techniques that will allow them to consistently hold employees accountable.

Expectations and Accountability - let it begin with the employee policies and procedures manual. Tell employees what you expect and then back up those expectations with accountability. We will learn about your organization and provide you with policies that will allow you to hold employees accountable. We will begin with our basic template that addresses employment regulations and best practices and weave in policies and language that makes sense for the way your organization does business.