Transform Your Workplace

The onboarding process can have a significant impact on whether or not new employees “make it” in their new role. So what is onboarding, and why are employers talking about it more and more in their HR practices? Brandon Laws sits down with Molly Kelley of Xenium HR to discuss the traditional onboarding process and how employers are shifting to new, innovative onboarding practices to make sure employees properly onboard into their role and into the company culture. In this episode, Molly shares great takeaways for listeners and actionable items that can jump-start the onboarding process in any organization.     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Have you heard the term "employer brand" before? Do you know what it means and why there is a lot of buzz around this concept? In this episode, Lacey Halpern and Brandon Laws of Xenium HR discuss what it employer branding means and why plays an important role in attracting specific types of people to organizations. During the discussion, you will find out what employer branding is all about, what departments usually play a role in its development and how employers can use employer branding to find people that are a perfect fit for their organization.   Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Sheri Kuretich, a Human Resources Manager at Sunstone Circuits, shares how she and the leadership team at Sunstone built a successful wellness program for the organization that drove positive change in the culture and an improvement in overall health. During the episode, Sheri shares the reasons they started a wellness program, how they implemented it, the successes and failures they had along the way, and where the program will go in the future.     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast 

Ever wonder what it is like to create a set of guiding principles for an organization—the type that all employees believe in and live every single day they are at work? Brandon Laws sits down Joy McCormick and Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR to discuss the process of creating a set of principlesfrom first-hand experience. Brandon, Joy, and Lacey discuss Xenium’s set of guiding principles called “The Xenium Promise”, how it came about, what it means to them and how they integrate it into their daily business practices.   Discussion points: - What is The Xenium Promise? - Why create guiding principles in the first place? - What was the process like? Who was involved? - Finalized, what does it look like? - In what ways does Xenium use it?  - Do other companies have something similar? How do they use it?     Download “The Xenium Promise”   Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Alfred Dual and Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR join Brandon Laws for a discussion on ways to engage employees at work. The discussion is centered around a handout that shared ideas on engaging employees at work from a keynote presentation at the Portland Human Resources Management Association Strategic Management Conference titled "What's Brewing in HR." During the discussion, Brandon, Alfred and Lacey discuss engagement methods such as friday fun, huddles, ongoing learning opportunities, mentor programs and more!     Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast 

In this episode, Brandon Laws and Tim Winner, Vice President of People at Metal Toad Media discuss the title “VP of People” and its role in an organization as it relates to HR and leadership.   Brandon and Tim discuss how focusing on "people" has fueled growth in Metal Toad Media’s business. Tim talks about how culture development, recruiting great people, and having philosophies instead of workplace policies were some of the main components of focusing on people.      Take our quick survey about the HR for Small Business podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XeniumPodcast

Lacey Halpern of Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss giving feedback to employees, being authentic and managing performance. During this episode, Lacey and Brandon discuss how giving negative feedback is better than no feedback at all, methods to give positive and negative feedback, types of feedback worth sharing, what is more appropriate—public or private feedback, why being authentic is important, how giving feedback can affect a relationship.

Tyler Meuwissen, HR Representative at Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss the book The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. During the episode, Tyler and Brandon discuss the main takeaways within the book, including: what it means to focus on "One Thing," why we should do fewer things instead of more, why multitasking is a lie, how to set and accomplish goals using "The One Thing" method, how to balance work and life.

Listen in as this podcast episode features a recording of the HR leader panel from the Attracting and Retaining Talent workshop Xenium hosted on April 16, 2014.The moderator for the panel discussion is Suzi Alligood, Director of Training & Development at Xenium HR. The three panelists are Susy Dunn, VP of People at Jama Software, Paige Jackson, VP of HR at Stimson Lumber Company and Tana Thomson, VP of HR at Xenium HR.This episodes features segments such as How HR can work with marketing to attract new talent to the organization, unique benefits that can attract talent and differentiate against competitors, practices that have been effective in identifying high potential employees, what small businesses are doing to bring innovation and change in order to attract and retain talent, professional and career development as a retention strategy

Molly Kelley, HR Business Partner at Xenium HR, joins the Human Resources for Small Business podcast to discuss developing for skills, training and a new program created at Xenium called XenTalks—which is an internal program intended to develop speaking skills. During this episode, Molly and Brandon discuss why employee development is critical to culture, the impact development has on an employee engagement, what Xenium is doing to develop for specific skills and the format of XenTalks and why it was developed.