8 Steps to a Better Employee Training Program

Employee training is vital to any company's human resources solution. Well-known companies like McDonalds, Xerox and Sprint even have Corporate Universities that reinforce the importance of education efforts within the organization.

Sales Training, Communication Skills, Customer Service Training, Management Skills, Change Management, Leadership Skills, Presentation Skills, Organizational Change, Goal Setting and Time Control, Team Building, Audit Skills Training and Safety Training are some of the most common training programs. Some workplaces even go beyond technology and business and offer subjects like wine tasting and setting up a small business.

5 Tips for Implementing Effective Service Award Programs

 Service award programs are recognition strategies that businesses implement to celebrate employees’ milestones with the company. The days are long gone when companies would wait for an employee’s 25th year, or even 10th year, before they hand out an award. Today, most employers know that a service award program that is implemented correctly can go a long way in motivating employees and creating a happier, more productive workplace. And that they don’t have to wait for decades. Most companies begin recognizing years of service on an employee’s fifth year; and then on the 10th year, 15th year, 20th year and so on. Some even start as early as the third year.

Giving recognition like service awards to employees helps boost morale and improve employee performance. A study called “Incentives, Motivation and Workplace Performance: Research & Best Practices” found that correctly implemented recognition and incentive programs can increase performance by as much as 44%. The white paper “Motivation and Incentive Strategy: The Key to Making Your Workplace Exceptional,” on the other hand, cited higher employee engagement, reduced attrition, improved organizational performance and increases in profitability and shareholder return as some of the results of an award program that’s implemented and monitored correctly.

11 Things to Consider Before Choosing an Online Sales Training Program

An online sales training program is a vital component of an effective staff motivation strategy. It helps you not just impart knowledge but also, if implemented correctly, helps keep morale high, which also leads to increased productivity.

Here are some things to keep in mind as you choose your online sales training program:

1. Education and improving skills should be the focus of the program. This helps foster a sense of value on the employee’s skills and knowledge and a sense of ownership of his role in achieving his goals.

2. It should also help them gain more confidence and deliver results. These make the online training program a potentially powerful motivational tool.

3. Consider a program that gives you more choices in terms of training modules.

Choosing Consultants on Employment Law

Every company is required to comply with workplace law and is expected to always be updated with all the regulations and the new laws that have been passed. This is a daunting task, particularly if your company does not have a legal department or an in house team of lawyers and legal assistants.

Most companies choose to outsource this task because they not only gain the expertise but they also get the speed of delivery while saving on time and costs.

* Experts on employment law should be able to give you sound advice on your obligations and rights under the existing labor laws.

* The legal services should be topnotch, provided by a legal team with the education, training and experience suited for the job. You should be able to get the services minus the jargon. And you should be provided with the assistance in case you need clarifications.

7 Advantages of Outsourced Payroll

If you are thinking of simplifying business processes, saving time and money and focusing on other important parts of the business, outsourced payroll is one of the smart ways to go.

Here are some of its advantages:   

1. Having your payroll outsourced saves time because you leave the process to experts who can, among others, process the payroll; calculate and pay employment, withholding and other taxes; cut and distribute paychecks; prepare and distribute forms related to employee compensation; and handle inquiries about payroll. Outsourcing these tasks leaves you the time to use instead on other important aspects of your business like improving business operations, customer service, sales and product launches. This helps increase and maximize the productivity of your workforce.  

2. Outsourced payroll, particularly for small businesses, helps save on costs. Think about it. The number of hours that your employees spend on payroll processes can end up costing more than the services being offered by providers of payroll services. And that’s not just the employee hours – if you do the payroll internally, you will be spending on printing, as well as devoting the paid employee time on processes like check distribution and creating the documents for taxes.      

5 Things to Consider When Looking for HR Administration Specialists

HR administration, or human resource administration, is all about managing the company’s human’s resources, which are in fact one of the company’s most valuable assets. Included in human resource administration are recruitment and selection of employees, assessment, rewards and training for employees, various employee relations functions and administration of payroll and benefits. In most cases, handling company culture, organizational leadership, compliance with labor laws and serving as the company's liaison with the labor union representative during collective bargaining agreement are also part of human resource administration. Human resource administration is typically headed by a human resources director and is composed of a team of human resources professionals.

Here are some tips on finding human resource administration specialists:

1. Experts in human resource administration know that one of their main functions is taking good care of employees and improving their employment experience. They should also be able to provide you with a business strategy that can help your company meet the demands of a more competitive business environment.

2. HR administration experts should be able to give you a clear idea on how they will support the company’s objectives and prevent low performance and shortage of skilled employees at any point. One of the ways to address these is to have constant communication with the executive management and the department heads to determine the personnel needs as well as the company objectives.   

Choosing Human Resources Services Firms

Human resources services encompass a number of HR or human resources management functions. These include employee recruitment and selection, employee rewards and training, assessment, health and benefits and several other employee relations functions. In some cases, HR management services also include organizational leadership, building or maintaining a company culture, compliance with employment laws and, in unionized companies, representing the organization as a liaison with the labor union representative during collective bargaining agreement. Some companies choose to outsource these services and there are a number of HR consulting companies, from the smaller firms to the larger firms, and services to choose from.

Aside from saving on money and time and allowing them to focus on other operational priorities, most companies find outsourcing HR services as one their best options particularly for change consultancy. This is an instance when an opinion from experts outside of the company might be able to give better, more objective insights.

When choosing the firm to handle Human Resources services, one of the first things to consider is the firm’s credentials. Find out how long the consulting firm has been in business. Is the firm reliable? Does it have a good track record?