Ian Hopfe

How much money you spend on Human Resources for your organization depends on the number of employees you have, your ability to pay, and the support you need.

The top employee issues are employees are always late, calling in sick, starting late and ending early, having low performance, not getting along, not doing as instructed, don’t participate in meetings, and keep quitting.

You can train a leader to be a trainer by training all employees before they’re promoted, giving leaders a way to track employee performance more often and have them work closely with HR.

The top ways to maximize the collection of your employee’s ideas are to have an idea time at all meetings, create a brainstorming group, set up permanent project teams, allow for individual creative projects, and offer merit pay increases.

You should maximize your employee’s brain power and ideas because it builds loyalty, creates buy-in, gives a sense of ownership, gives a sense of pride, and gives the employer more value for the wages paid to current employees.

After resolving most of your other employee issues one-time bonuses or perks can be positive because everyone truly has a reason to celebrate. One-time bonuses and perks should be implemented after you have addressed all the other basic needs, after you have addressed all the psychological needs, after addressing other self-fulfillment needs, and after you have multiple positive employee engagement surveys completed in a row, so you know they’re happy.

Your organization or business needs to implement a regular training plan to support employee career advancement because of technological changes, societal changes, cross-training advantages, and management skills.

Internal promotions are the gold standard for employee needs because they create loyalty, trust, and career advancement opportunities while lowering employee animosity toward hiring an outsider. Proper training is the key to making internal promotions work.

Recognizing good work is important because an appreciated worker is loyal, works harder, helps other employees, and becomes engaged. If you create a proper recognition program employees may not even demand higher pay.