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In this episode, Matt tackles one of the most common questions he receives from small business owners: 'Should we have an employee handbook?' He breaks down whether or not you should have a handbook and what should be included in it. Join him to discover why it's a must-have for your company, covering everything from establishing clear expectations to providing legal protection. He discusses the following topics and more: • The Importance of Employee Handbooks • Do You Need an Employee Handbook? • Getting Started - The Basics • Acknowledgment and Implementation • Keeping Employees Engaged Three Key Takeaways: 1. Employee handbooks are a fundamental necessity for businesses, serving as a blueprint for success, regardless of their size or industry. 2. Handbooks play critical roles in setting clear expectations for employees, providing legal protection in disputes, and defining a company's culture. 3. It's important to make handbooks engaging through visuals and infographics while maintaining clarity in policies, as these documents reflect a company's brand and professionalism. Checkout guHRoo's Handbook building service here: https://www.guhroo.co/employee-handbook/

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⁠42 Free HR Templates⁠

⁠The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Guide⁠

⁠Are you eligible for Employee Retention Tax Credits?

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In this episode, Matt shared the use of offer letters during the hiring process and how it can help in ensuring a smooth and legally sound hiring process. Join Matt as he explores why offer letters are indispensable and how they can benefit both employers and potential hires. He also talks about the following and more: • Introduction to Offer Letters • Diverse Role of Offer Letters • Crucial Components • Emphasis on Practicality **Three Takeaways** 1. Offer letters serve as written records that define terms of employment, safeguarding employers and employees in case of disagreements or disputes. 2. Utilizing offer letters not only ensures clarity on job expectations and compensation but also helps small business owners comply with legal requirements and obligations. 3. Offer letters exhibit professionalism and commitment, making potential employees more likely to accept offers So should you use an offer letter? Find out the importance of an offer letter. You can get a FREE Offer Letter Template here: https://go.guhroo.co/25-free-hr-templates

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⁠The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Guide⁠

⁠Are you eligible for Employee Retention Tax Credits?

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In today's episode, Matt will go through some excellent ideas for team-building activities that will enhance culture, engagement, and retention.

The advantages of team building include enhanced collaboration, planning abilities, employee engagement, and communication. Employees can connect in a different environment by engaging in enjoyable activities that allow them to perceive each other in a new way.

Teams that function well together can solve problems more efficiently than if each team member worked alone when time and effort are invested in building such teams. In other words, the sum is worth more than the parts.

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A lot of people are interested in leveraging offshore talent to move their business forward. While this is not a new thing, there are still a lot of limiting beliefs about what you can get help with from offshore teammates.

People are worried about the level of skill, getting screwed over, worried about the quality of the work, don’t trust the systems, and don’t know how to get started.

We are going to help you navigate this. We have completed over 100 contracts with offshore assistants and specialists ranging from general virtual assistants to highly skilled professionals.

We have spent well into the six figures with offshore talent over the last few years and it provides a nice supplement to our local team.

Our mindset is that we can create far more “onshore” jobs by leveraging contract talent to help us grow. In this episode we covered the following and more:

• The types of tasks and projects you can offshore
• Where to find remote talent
• How to set your offshore teammates (and yourself) up for success
• Lessons learned from our experience and how to apply it yourself

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Three Takeaways

1. Creating clear expectations and SOP's is the only way to have success with offshore assistants.
2. Be diligent and patient when hiring. Make sure you have a process in place for evaluating talent.
3. Your offshore team should be a supplement to your local team and do basic tasks to start and grow over time.

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About the Host & Guest

Find Matt on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattvaadi/

Find Karen on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-altman-748b1a84/

Resources

42 Free HR Templates

The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Guide

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In this episode, Matt shares how to find remote teammates. Hiring remote employees can lead to a lot more work, can create some unique issues when determining who is a good fit, and you can make bad hires just as easy. We cover how to define what you are looking for, where to find people, how to actively recruit, and how to be efficient with your time.

I am taking the perspective of the small business owner here, so I will do my best to let you know what can (and should be delegated) and what you should do yourself.

We are going to discuss everything leading up to the interviews. This is the sourcing phase. How do we find the talent to fill the funnel?

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The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Guide

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In today’s episode, Matt gets into some of the pros and cons of hiring remote teammates along with his own personal experience leading a hybrid team.

Growing a remote workforce is a trend that was accelerated by Covid-19 but it can be scary if you are used to the old way of doing things.

How do you hire, retain, and engage top talent while maintaining compliance across state lines? This can be a big challenge for small businesses.

We are going to be going through a series on remote work where we will address all areas including recruiting, hiring, performance management, and even terminations. Today we are going to kick it off with should you hire remote workers.

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Resources

42 Free HR Templates

The Ultimate Employee Onboarding Guide

Are you eligible for Employee Retention Tax Credits?

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In today’s episode, Matt chats with Niko Caparisos, Principal of Prosperity Benefits, LLC out of Savannah, GA. They covered a wide range of topics including health and well-being of employees, group health insurance alternatives, why so many companies pay for perceived security, and more. During this insightful episode, Matt and Niko cover the following topics:

• [02:49] Unique Ways for Companies to Avoid Mistakes in Securing Health Insurance
  
• [10:08] Alternative Options for Group Health Insurance
  
• [13:03] The Key Differences of the Types of Insurance for Small Businesses
  
• [20:18] How Money plays a Role in Long-Term Planning
  
• [33:11] How does Intermittent Fasting Boost Your Performance
  

How can your team dominate the competition now and in the future? That is what we want you to do. Let's work together to do this.

More about Niko

Niko Caparisos is the Principal of Prosperity Benefits, LLC, a boutique firm, offering a high level of care and unique service distinctions that are not typically offered at larger brokerages. He is also a Program Architect of Community-Owned Health Plans and has built a health plan architecture to help Georgia-based employers gain control over their health plan spend, provide amazing benefits to staff, and help their local communities.

He is an Accredited Advisor of Health Rosetta, an ecosystem for scaling adoption of practical non-partisan fixes to our health care system by enabling public and private employers and unions to reduce their health benefits spending by 20% or more while improving the quality of care for plan members.

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Let’s face it, some people on your team are miserable. They are on LinkedIn right now looking for their next job. According to Gallup, only 30% of employees are actively engaged. That means you have more than just a few miserable people on your team. In this episode, Matt breaks down the three most critical areas of HR that high-performing organizations do right. 

Why does this matter?

Actively engaged employees outperformed the disengaged employees by 200%. That’s right - 200%. That is a staggering number and should have all of us scrambling to move our people to that level of engagement.

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How do we engage our team members and retain them longer?

While there is not a single action that can achieve this, there is a combination of things. In his best-selling book “Ping-Pong is Not a Strategy: How to Create an Awesome Organizational Culture”, Matt Vaadi outlines the “ERG Method” for engaging, retaining, and growing your teammates.

In this episode we will cover the key principles from the book including how to improve each of these areas of your organization:

• Hiring - Screening, selection, and onboarding of new hires.
  
• Performance - Shifting to an outcome-focused environment, education and training, and goal setting.
  
• Training - Develop and lead your people to success by investing in their education.
  

Regardless of how mature your HR function is at your organization, you will learn something during this spirited session. Matt’s passion and experience helping teams grow will keep you engaged throughout.

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In this episode, Matt talks with Bryan Murdaugh at Fivable about going to a 4 day work week. Fivable adopted a rotating 4-day work week as an experiment back in May 2020.

In February 2020, Fivable was 100% co-located in their Irmo, SC office. After the 4 day work week implementation, in August 2020 Fivable was located in 4 states, 3 time zones, and just one or two members of their team will find their way into the office during the day.

Fivable’s 4 day work week experiment worked well enough that they are still on that same schedule today. Fivable saw productivity increase, employees needing less PTO, and an overall happier environment.

Listen as Matt and Bryan discuss what the 4 day work week looks like and how Fivable implemented the change while balancing the needs of their clients.

Here are some topics that are covered.

• The initial results seen in productivity when Fiveable made the 4 day work week switch.
• How The Fiveable 4 day work week was structured in order to still meet client needs.
• Tools to make remote work successful
• What would Bryan change about the process of going to a 4 day work week?
• What Are Some Simple Automations To Fix Dull Mundane Tasks

About the Guest Bryan Murdaugh

Bryan is a web nerd. He started Fivable in March 2010 to make the web a more beautiful place. That appreciation for beauty has shaped the web into a more useful place. Bryan helps businesses to reach more people, improve the way their business moves data, or tell their business story with eloquence.

Fivable has been particularly successful with innovative hardware startups, service companies, and non-profits afraid they're limiting growth by using paper-based systems, frustrated that their teams depend on multiple systems that don't talk to each other or have a great idea to make their product connect to cloud-based data capture systems. At the end of the day, Fivable creates well-fitting web software systems that help their clients save time, minimize frustration, and maximize profitability.

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On today's show, Matt is joined by Amanda Volz, Sr. HR Business Partner at ERG Payroll & HR. They are discussing the Covid-19 vaccine and it's impact on employers. Matt and Amanda answer the following questions and more! Can I require employees to get the vaccine? What should I do if employees don’t want to get the vaccine? Should we make it a requirement? How can we encourage employees to get the vaccine? Have an HR question you would like us to answer? Email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Podcast Question” and we will answer it on air. Please take a moment to give us a five-star rating on your podcast player of choice. It helps us tremendously! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hr-simplified/message