Author: Delise West

Your best ‘recruiting’ tool

Employee retention and engagement makes companies much better positioned over competitors

Branding your workplace

How to set yourself from other businesses looking for hard-to-find employees

A paid leave checklist

Reasons to weigh the costs and implications of implementing a policy now, rather than waiting for a possible legal mandate

Will curiosity kill the cat?

Wading through a job candidate’s online information has pitfalls

Terminating an employee the right way

It’s never an easy task, but there is a humane and sensitive way to approach it

When email is the wrong mode of communication

Why it’s a good idea to pause before hitting the ‘send’ button

Ask HR: Avoiding difficult conversations can cost you

Why it’s not worth putting off performance-related conversations with employees

Job descriptions – a tool that’s actually useful

They have functions that help you better manage your staff

Ask HR: How to get new hires productive more quickly

First, ‘you have to start from the feet up’

Ask HR: What to do when a promotion goes awry

There are hazards in picking the wrong person or mismanaging the changeover

More news from NHBR:

Gas prices cause NH economic indigestion

New Hampshire is feeling some economic indigestion at the start of the summer season, and the main culprit is gas. Six in 10 (61%) of respondents to a new University of New Hampshire polls are worried about the current and future price of gas, and a clear majority put the blame on President Donald Trump.

Private equity firm agrees to acquire a majority stake in Velcro Companies

Arsenal Capital Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Velcro Companies from the Cripps Foundation, which owns the privately held British company, a longtime New Hampshire employer. Under the deal announced May 26, the Cripps Foundation will continue as a minority shareholder of the company, which opened its manufacturing center in Manchester nearly 70 years ago.