Employee Relations
Maintain a productive & safe workplace.
Nurture a positive & inclusive organizational culture.
Invest in employee engagement, training, & development.
What’s the secret to good employee relations?
Your company’s most important resource isn’t time or money – it’s your employees! By nurturing this precious resource through an effective employee relations strategy, you can ensure that employee productivity and satisfaction aren’t derailed by poor management, unnecessary conflict, disciplinary issues, or harassment.
Foundation is key: Cultivate a positive organizational culture
Without a strong cultural foundation, organizations can falter. Building a culture that’s grounded in living your company values and focused on providing a positive employee experience – all while driving performance – sets the stage for good employee relations. The addition of smart policies and practices as well as employee development and training will lead to higher employee productivity, satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
Sometimes this can be easier said than done… and that’s where we come in.
Need help with your employee relations?
Maintaining a productive and safe work environment
Creating and maintaining a positive, productive, and safe work environment is critical for the future of your organization. To do this effectively, you need to have policies and practices in place that make sense for your organization, are legally compliant, and understood and followed by all employees.
We can help by:
- Creating, reviewing, or augmenting your employee handbook. Request a Free Handbook Consultation today!
- Conducting customized Workplace Harassment Training (offered as in-person or online training) to help protect your employees and your liability
- Leading unbiased, independent Workplace Investigations, obtaining statements, and making evidence-based recommendations for further action
Is your employee handbook non-existent or out-of-date?
Don’t worry! We can create or update your handbook to ensure it protects your employees and your business.
Nurturing your organizational culture
Your company culture reflects the shared values and beliefs that drive your internal norms and acceptable behaviors, and it sets the tone for your employees’ overall experience in your organization. It impacts their motivation, commitment to their work, and how they interact with their peers, company leaders, clients/customers, and your organization overall.
As you work to shape your organizational culture, creating a culture of inclusivity is key to attracting top talent, retaining employees, and developing an engaged and highly productive workforce. Incorporating well-designed, long-term Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) initiatives are critical to fostering an inclusive culture.
Through our DEIB Consulting Services, Clark Schaefer Strategic HR can help no matter where you are on your DEIB journey. For organizations at the beginning of their journey, we will help to build your DEIB initiatives. We also provide specific, targeted support for those who have already identified their goals but need assistance in achieving them. We provide DEIB support in 3 key areas: Strategy and Surveys, Training, and Communication and Outreach.
The interesting thing about organizational culture is that it will exist whether you put time and effort into shaping it. You can choose to carefully nurture a culture that drives the success of your organization, or you can allow it to have a life of its own that may not lead in a positive direction.
We can support your culture strategy by:
- Conducting Employee Surveys (i.e., new hire surveys, onboarding surveys, engagement surveys, pulse surveys) and Focus Groups to assess employee satisfaction and engagement
- Creating/Implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) Programs
- Identifying retention solutions to improve turnover and employee morale
- Formulating community relations / corporate social responsibility programs
- Organizing recreational, social, and community service events
- Developing employee recognition programs
- Designing and executing strategies to properly manage absenteeism and termination
Is your company culture helping or hurting you?
If you’re not sure, maybe it’s time to assess your employee engagement and satisfaction.
Investing in Employee Training & Development
Investing in your employees’ training and development will not only help you to meet the demands of your business and organizational goals, but it will also play a key role in strengthening your employee relations and employee retention.
We offer a wide array of customized training & development solutions, including:
- Leadership and Management Training designed for both new and experienced managers and supervisors providing them with the education and resources to be successful
- Team Building and Development training solutions to build a collaborative workforce
- Everything DiSC® – an assessment-based learning experience to help your people work better together
Visit our Training & Development Services for more!
Looking for customized training?
We offer training on a wide variety of topics that can be customized for your organization. If we don’t have what you need, our HR experts will create it for you!
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