Consensus HR Blogs & HR Insights
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Our HR blogs are designed to help SMEs understand Employment Law changes, improve workplace culture and reduce HR risk through practical outsourced HR support.
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Why Good Recruitment Must Be Followed by Good Management | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Your New Employee Looked Brilliant at Interview – So Why Isn’t It Working Out?Consensus HR | Outsourced HR Support for SMEsRecruitment can be expensive.But recruiting the wrong person can be considerably more expensive.Advertising costs, management time, interviews, onboarding, training and reduced productivity can all add up.Then there is the disruption of starting the recruitment process […]
Are You Managing Employee Probation Properly? | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Recruitment Is Only the Beginning – Are You Managing Probation Properly?Consensus HR | Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire & CambridgeshireYou have advertised the vacancy.You have interviewed candidates.You have chosen your preferred person.They have accepted.Job done?Absolutely not.Recruitment is only the beginning of the employment relationship, and what happens during the employee’s first few months can become increasingly important for […]
Are Your Managers Managing Performance – or Simply Hoping It Improves?
Consensus HR | Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire & CambridgeshirePoor performance rarely disappears by itself.Yet one of the most common people-management problems we see at Consensus HR is managers knowing that an employee is not performing as expected, but delaying the conversation.The employee may be missing deadlines, making repeated mistakes, failing to achieve targets or simply not performing […]
Improve Employee Retention with Better HR Management | Conensus HR in Herts & Beds
Recruiting the Right Person Is Only Half the Job – Keeping Them Is the Real ChallengeBy Consensus HR – Outsourced HR Support for SMEsRecruitment is expensive.Advertising, interviewing, onboarding and training all require significant investment.Yet many businesses lose excellent employees within the first year—not because they recruited the wrong person, but because they failed to support […]
Could Your Recruitment Process Be Putting Off the Very People You Want to Employ? | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Recruiting the Right Person Is Only Half the Job – Keeping Them Is the Real ChallengeBy Consensus HR – Outsourced HR Support for SMEsRecruitment is expensive.Advertising, interviewing, onboarding and training all require significant investment.Yet many businesses lose excellent employees within the first year—not because they recruited the wrong person, but because they failed to support […]
Are Your Managers Confident… or Simply Guessing? | Why Management Training Matters | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Recruiting the Right Person Is Only Half the Job – Keeping Them Is the Real ChallengeBy Consensus HR – Outsourced HR Support for SMEsRecruitment is expensive.Advertising, interviewing, onboarding and training all require significant investment.Yet many businesses lose excellent employees within the first year—not because they recruited the wrong person, but because they failed to support […]
Why Proactive HR Saves Businesses Thousands | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Why Businesses Should Stop Waiting Until There Is a Problem Before Calling HRHelping companies take the pain out of managing peopleBy Consensus HR – Your Outsourced HR Department for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire & CambridgeshireAre You Managing Your People… or Simply Reacting to Problems?For many SMEs, HR is still viewed as something only needed when there is […]
Why Every SME Needs an Up-to-Date Employee Handbook | Consensus HR – Herts & Beds
Why Your Employee Handbook Should Be One of Your Most Used Business DocumentsBy Consensus HR – Helping Businesses Take the Pain out of Managing PeopleToo often we hear the same comment:”Our handbook is over 100 pages long… nobody reads it.”Our response is always the same.If nobody reads it……why have one?An Employee Handbook should never sit […]