Do you need any more apples in your HR basket?
Do you have a dedicated HR person or department, or is your approach to this area of managing your business assigned to your managers or team leaders?
Do they hire and performance manage their teams? This is so often the case for SME’s, especially if you only have a small team.
However, this may not be something that your managers have much experience of, which could put your business at a disadvantage. One of the key HR trends for 2023 according to global research by Gartner is employee experience, so informed people management is critical.
We are all too aware that the world of work and employee expectations have changed exponentially as we continue to adapt and move on from the Covid pandemic. Token gestures towards employee satisfaction in the ongoing war for talent just don’t work now. Why? There are many organisations that have raised the stakes and are already offering a high-end employee experience to ensure they can attract, recruit and, most importantly, retain the talent they need.
A consistent and thorough induction and onboarding programme is essential so that your new employees can quickly get up to speed with the culture and processes within your business, meet everyone and understand how they fit into the bigger picture.
We’ve touched on the ongoing talent war, so a focus on retaining your existing staff needs to be considered too. How do you ensure they will stay with you when there are so many work opportunities available? It’s a hard task in many industries, with a lot of elements to consider. Hybrid or remote working; employee wellness; training; management development; as well as offering an inclusive culture if you’ve chosen a hybrid or remote working model; plus the everyday admin of payroll, absence management, sickness, performance reviews etc that are all essential when employing staff.
Having clear processes in place for all these elements contributes to making sure your people feel valued, included, respected, and motivated. Having easy to use systems and clearly defined procedures will ensure they will feel confident that their needs are met, and comfortable working for an organisation that has taken the time to allow them to be able to access, manage and provide information with ease.
There is so much more to HR than ‘hiring and firing’ so the graphic below demonstrates the many elements available.
How many apples need to be in your HR basket?
Even those organisations with just a handful of employees need some level of dedicated HR resource and at times, strategic input too. This all sounds like a significant investment but that is not always the case. There are several things that some HR expertise can do for your organisation to drive your bottom line, without having to be an employed member of your team.
You’ll save time – and likely money – in the long with a little HR expertise
With the ever-increasing commercial costs we are all experiencing you might be tempted to hold fire on any HR related investment. However, one person working for a few hours a month can handle all the day-to-day HR duties for an SME, because their focus is 100% on those tasks. Another consideration for a consistent and positive employee experience is to invest in dedicated HR cloud-based software to automate much of the more time intensive admin.
Outsourcing your HR admin processes to an organisation like ProAction HR, or utilising our strategic input or knowledge on the best software and online tools to suit your organisation could really help you power forward into 2023, confident in the knowledge your best assets are in safe hands.
Our HR support allows you to choose just those apples that you need to add to your HR basket as your organisation evolves. And if you’re not sure which ones would really help achieve your business goals as we head into 2023, why not Book a Discovery call to find out more.
We can make sure you’ve got all you need to make running and growing your business that bit easier and quicker to manage and the employee experience you offer a positive one at every touchpoint too!