It takes HR and Hiring Managers a lot of time and money sifting through resumes, conducting interviews, finding the person with the right skills who will also be a good cultural fit to narrow it down to one person. But you finally found the right person, made an offer, and it was accepted!

Join Diane Dee 8/6/19 @ 9am CDT for her training on Harassment in the Workplace and Its Relationship to Discrimination, Retaliation, and Hostile Work Environments

Join Diane Dee Aug 15, 2019 at 12pm CDT for her 1 Hour Webinar on 'Skills Gaps: Strategies to Identify and Close Those Gaps'

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In an age of instant access to emails, texts, the Internet, and social networks, controlling the use of social media in the workplace is more than a matter of common sense. Control requires a delicate balance on the part of the employer. Employers need to balance how employees use social media in the workplace for their personal, non-company use and how they use social media for attaining business objectives.

An effective Onboarding program can mean the difference between retaining new hires or watching them walk out the door. Join Diane Dee on October 10, 2019 for her 90-minute webinar where participants will discover ways to develop an onboarding program that will assist their organization in reducing new hire turnover and increasing new hire effectiveness.

Flexible work programs are work arrangements wherein employees are given greater scheduling freedom in how they fulfill the obligations of their positions.  The most commonplace of these programs is flextime, which gives workers far greater leeway in terms of the time when they begin and end work, provided they put in the total number of hours required by the employer.  Other common flexible working arrangements involve telecommuting, job-sharing, and compressed work weeks.

If an employer has exhausted all the necessary steps to help the employee improve his or her work performance – and those steps are not working – it may be time to terminate the employee.Terminating an employee is not only stressful for the employee losing a job, but also for the employer. There are legal, ethical steps to take when you terminate an employee. The company must ensure its actions are above reproach. How the company terminates an employee sends a powerful message not only to the terminated employee, but also to remaining staff, either positive or negative.