by sarahhr | Jun 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you have read my Linkedin profile, you already know that I spent the early days of my career working at a call centre as a Recruitment Manager. I was brought in to develop a hiring strategy to tackle their whopping 184% annual turnover rate. We had to hire 25+...
by sarahhr | Jun 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I started my own business, there was one thing I learned pretty quickly — I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I knew this was the biggest risk to my business, so I started talking to experts and essentially picking their brains. I would ask for assessments of my...
by sarahhr | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
When assisting a small business owner with an employee issue or termination, I will usually ask to see the employee’s contract. More often than not, I get that deer in the headlights look, followed by the confession that there is absolutely nothing in writing. The...
by sarahhr | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
A lot of start-ups and small business owners don’t think they need an onboarding process because they have a welcoming culture or they are a small team or everyone needs to “hit the ground running”. Well that is all lovely but won’t happen if you are not consistent...
by sarahhr | Mar 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last week we said goodbye to our 9 year old dog – Oreo. My husband and I had got him before we were married and he truly was our first baby. Dog people will get this, the rest of you may have to bear with me. The grief has been devastating. Knowing we would be a...
by sarahhr | Jan 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month a small Nova Scotia town was devastated when a Canadian soldier presumably killed his wife, daughter and mother before turning a gun on himself. Unimaginable! How does a family recover from this? As a parent, I cannot fathom the state of mind...
by sarahhr | Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
6 Office Holiday Celebration Ideas As we enter the holiday season, I can’t help but reminisce about my previous holiday celebrations in the workplace. While I see my clients start to decorate their workspaces, the poinsettias arrive, the trees go up, employees seem...
by sarahhr | Oct 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
I attended a conference recently and ended up talking to the founder of a fairly successful tech start up company. I say fairly successful, because while the technology had experienced great success, the expected returns just weren’t where he thought they would be a...
by sarahhr | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was 24 years old and working as a Human Resource Manager for a large call centre. I had only been in the role about a week when I had to perform my first employee termination. I had trained for this. I had been coached by others on this very topic. I knew we had the...
by sarahhr | Sep 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
How Parenthood Made Me a Better Leader Like many parents these days, I became a parent later in life (mid-30s). Most people wait because they want to establish a career or they just haven’t found the right partner yet. For me, I just wasn’t ready and I really didn’t...
by sarahhr | Sep 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Ugggh…performance review time again! I must admit, I have been that person that developed and launched that exhausting quarterly review process in your company. You know the one with the long form that you and your Manager complete in advanced of that...
by sarahhr | Sep 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
After a career of working with companies ranging in size from 5 people to 25,000 people there is one thing I have learned – small businesses have different needs. Ask any owner of a start up or other small business what challenges they are facing and they will usually...
