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Tag: Small Business

  • Policies, startups, and small HR departments

    Two great comments stood out to me when I attended the session on running a small HR department recently, but they prompted a related question I need a little help with. Don’t create a policy just for the sake of having one. Fantastic. We have too many policies as it is. Totally agree. Don’t create…

  • How to run a one person HR department (HRM Conference)

    The first concurrent session I attended on day one of the 2010 Tuscaloosa HRM Conference was Team of One: HR Professionals Who Have to Do It All. A big plus (in my book) for this session was that it was a panel discussion and very informal. This sort of content is better covered by a…

  • Understanding Social Media Use

    I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Haberman yesterday, and one of the big takeaways (other than a few really sweet quotes for later posts) was that HR people really need to be persuaded to see the advantages of social media. So many of us see the benefits, but so few of us are…