Running a small business in central Edmonton?
If staff issues are draining your energy, like drama, burnout, or people not pulling their weight, I can help.
I’m a local HR consultant who works with businesses in Queen Mary Park to create calm, respectful workplaces that run smoothly.
Human Resource Services:
- Fix a toxic workplace
- Create Rockstar Employees
- Create Employee Loyalty
- Decrease Expenses
- Increase Revenue
- Create Leaders
- Create Effective Policies
- Hire the Best Employees
Indigenous Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion:
- KAIROS Blanket Exercise
- Truth and Reconciliation 94 Calls to Action
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Land Acknowledgments
- Indigenous Policies
- Indigenous Relations
Shared Direct Mail Marketing:
- I support local businesses by sharing direct mail marketing costs!
- I create community postcards that residents love!
- Open rates are 80–90%
- Response rates 5–9 times higher than other advertising channels
- 49% more memorable and 33% more engaging than email
- 71% of people read direct mail the day it’s delivered
Ian Hopfe
HR Consultant
Serving the neighbourhood of Queen Mary Park, the city of Edmonton, the province of Alberta, and Canada!
Please email me for more information at: ian@littlebluehouse.ca
Recent Articles
Is Your Workplace Culture Thriving or Surviving?
In this article, I will explain why fixing a toxic workplace environment can help your business or organization to stop surviving and begin thriving.
Tackling the Urgent Issue of Pay Inequality
All organizations can solve pay equity issues by creating or updating pay grids to factor for women-dominated roles, re-examining experience to factor for maternity leave, creating hiring and promotion tiebreaker policies, and committing to hiring 50% of women in all job types.
Rethinking Bereavement Leave
Bereavement leave should be flexible and immediate, like sick days, because of things like delayed emotions, the effect of keeping busy, triggering events, and compound trauma. Below, I examine my experience of my recent grief.