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The Secret to Solving Employee Turnover and Its Bottom-Line Drain
Employee turnover is a significant burden on your business, impacting productivity, performance, and, most importantly, your bottom line. With turnover rates expected to continue increasing in 2022, it may be the single biggest predictable and solvable challenge for your business this year.
Although you can’t completely eliminate turnover, you can take control to minimize it — and its financial repercussions…Read More -
CASE STUDY: Transforming Leadership to Improve Effectiveness and Fuel Growth
Fahrenheit Advisors deployed the right mix of leadership coaching and human capital consulting to improve the operations of a growing medical practice.
A privately owned mid-size specialty surgical group needed to address its underperforming Human Resources department. The department was not consistently providing basic services for internal clients, putting at risk the group’s ability to retain top talent. The…Read More -
ESG: What Is It, Why It Matters, and How to Get Started
You are probably familiar with the term ESG as more and more companies are adopting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies. But what does ESG really mean, and why does it matter?
Let’s back up and start from the beginning…
Although its roots in social responsibility go back decades, the term ESG was coined in 2005 as a result of…Read More -
Can You Afford Not To Invest in New-Hire Onboarding Automation?
New-hire onboarding is mission-critical for businesses to compete for top talent today, making it the best place to start investing in business process automation in the Human Resources area.
Many leaders of small- to mid-sized companies think, “I just don’t have the time or budget for automation.” But the bottom line is today’s businesses simply must prioritize business process automation…Read More -
CASE STUDY: Leveraging Culture and Consistency to Empower Growth
Fahrenheit Advisors' Human Capital team team created conditions for faster growth at an Arizona real estate firm by better defining culture, improving processes, and strengthening workforce development. The following case study summarizes the engagement.
Phoenix-based real estate firm Myriad at Home Group feared stalling growth unless it better defined the processes and company culture that empowered its team’s success.…Read More -
Fahrenheit Advisors Names John Griffin Managing Director and Executive Search & Recruiting Practice Leader
John Griffin, an accomplished operations and recruiting executive whose work in the Richmond business community has accelerated growth at start-up and Fortune 500 companies, has joined Fahrenheit Advisors as managing director and leader of the firm’s Executive Search & Recruiting Practice.
Griffin leads a fast-growing team of dedicated search professionals who collaborate with clients nationwide to find skilled talent for…Read More -
Best Practices to Advance DEI Initiatives in Any Work Environment
Remote and hybrid work is here to stay, forcing employers to adapt and evolve on multiple fronts. In this new era of work, how do workplaces avoid reversing the progress made towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?
It starts with a shift in focus about how we perceive “work.” Work is no longer a place we go, but something we…Read More -
5 Tips for Improving Your HR Document Retention Strategy
When compliant record keeping of personnel files and employment documentation is done well, it’s an automated, organized, “this ship runs itself” situation. When done poorly, it’s file cabinets filled with loosely sorted accordion folders and banker’s boxes of the “we keep these separately” medical information folders. Cue the theme music from Halloween.
Perhaps Michael Myers is a bit of a…Read More -
Automate Hire-to-Retire Processes to Stay Competitive (Series: Part 4 of 5)
The Great Resignation. Remote and hybrid workers. DE&I. Workforce transformation. Upskilling. Record job openings. The talent shortage. The last two years have brought new ideas, new expectations, and new challenges to the world of HR. With the outlook for 2022 bringing more of the same, there’s no better time to get your HR house in order, strengthening hire-to-retire processes to…Read More -
PODCAST: 8 Retention Strategies to Halt Employee Resignations in 2022
Since writing the article, 8 Retention Strategies to Halt Employee Resignations in 2022, I had the pleasure of participating in a podcast hosted by the Richmond, Virginia chapter of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) entitled Navigating Through the Great Resignation: 8 Key Strategies to Retain Talent.
Now is not the time to be complacent. The Great Resignation includes employees…Read More -
5 Strategies for Navigating Tough Workplace Conversations
You know that feeling. The one in the pit of your stomach. The one that keeps you up at night. The one you’re afraid to discuss with anyone.
It’s the “I don’t want to have this tough conversation at work” feeling.
In the season of performance management, this feeling is present for many managers and employees alike. Let’s face it…Read More -
6 Best Practices to Optimize Employee Onboarding
Onboarding new employees builds foundations that are relevant to your organization, such as your mission, vision, corporate culture, and employee value proposition (EVP). If you consider that it can take a year for new employees to perform at full capacity in their new roles, your goal should be to set new colleagues up for success and ensure the health of…Read More