Anderson HR Consulting

05/03/2019

Contact me to consider ways to increase the value employees see in your benefit and employee programs.
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Ron and Scott sit down with Raylana Anderson to chat about a topic lots of folks don't always think enough about, "HR stuff." Benefits sure seem a lot less confusing when you have Raylana to guide you

11/28/2017

In the spirit of the season on this “Giving Tuesday,” please know that I am thankful for your support and friendship.

I am thankful as well for referrals to business colleagues as I share talents within our area business community.

‘With a little help from friends,’ I continue to complete valuable and interesting HR projects that keep businesses and their employees working well together and that keep me challenged.

I appreciate these leads.

Warm Regards,
Raylana

07/13/2016

Hoping to trigger some more thoughts about positive Culture all around us.

Recently while looking at some papers I’d been keeping, a couple of lines caught my eye: (You) should never work in a place where you want to keep your head down. Unrestrained venting just transfers your stress to everyone around you and (a favorite) How (you) do anything is how you do everything. ...

06/20/2016

So, let's talk!
Feel free to let me know what you think of these ideas.

Think about these findings reported in Susan Pinker’s book, The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier: Smaller groups that communicated face-to-face were more cohesive. There was more trust within the group, which made it easier for people to ask questions and se...

06/09/2016

More ideas about putting together business planning with compliance. Let me know what you think.

By description, a business process is a set of activities that, once completed, will accomplish an organizational goal. Likely several processes come to mind as you consider this description: sales, marketing, finance/accounting, product development, etc. Now think about compliance. Rather than…

06/05/2016

New thoughts about a long-time habit.

Published statements or even correlations can be found and described to support nearly any perspective. It’s true that even a broken clock may be right twice a day. Take the oft-recommended method of providing negative feedback “sandwiched” between presumably positive statements that are too oft...

05/16/2016

I hope this idea spurs some creativity for you.

The Road to Abilene (aka the Abilene paradox) is Dr. Jerry B. Harvey’s 1974 parable about a family trip to Abilene. In that classic story about the results of group think, members of a family make a miserable trip across the hot desert in a car without air conditioning just to eat bad cafeteria foo...

04/30/2016

Remembering some of the basics:

What if you are a manager and you hear one of your employees say he is having trouble getting to work on time every day because of some medical appointments? Dare you ignore the remark? Is it a trigger to start an intentional conversation with that employee? If so, how hard could that really be? …

04/18/2016

A place to start when considering your organization's staffing needs:

It’s been said that the longest journey begins with the first step. The same may be said for organizational staffing. The question then becomes what the first step may be: As a business owner, briefly and quickly consider each of your employees. How many of them would you, right now, be excited…

04/01/2016

A Teeny Bit Less Fuzziness:
Wage & Hour Update

On March 14, 2016, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received final changes for proposed revisions to the federal wage & hour law from the Department of Labor (DOL).

One former DOL wage & hour administrator believes the rule will move quickly and may be published as early as July 7. That date would make new regulations effective on Labor Day, September 5 (60 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register). An alternative view anticipates publication just before Labor Day with an effective date just prior to Election Day.

Regardless, it is as important as ever – and now is a good time – to review your compensation practices to plan for likely changes that may be required by these updates.

Here is an earlier post:

The Department of Labor (DOL) is busy reviewing over 290,000 public comments submitted on proposed key changes to the regulations defining exemptions from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Good for business leaders who made their opinions known: whether in support or contention. Experts agree th…

03/23/2016

Ideas about genuine candor.

One cannot hide far enough below any radar at this time to avoid hearing negative, ugly language. In some circles such language has been identified as candor. One asks: Really? Candor stems from

02/28/2016

Another 'episode' along the spectrum:

The spectrum tracks questions often asked by organizational leaders. In the next several comments here, we will visit some of those issues. Today – Can we change an employee’s pay rate? This question nearly always arises when the anticipated change is a reduction. It seems the question fades…