by CEDR HR Solutions | Oct 23, 2015 | Team Troubleshooting
Employee upsets and team conflicts happen, even to experienced managers. The good news is that most of them can be handled efficiently and effectively if you adopt a few HR tricks that help tone down the volume of the conversation. As an added bonus, you may gradually...
by CEDR HR Solutions | Dec 20, 2013 | Handbooks & Policies, Team Troubleshooting
We often get questions such as the following (with minimal edits to protect privacy): “My office manager has been continually sick, calling out of the office for legit reasons, but she is always sick!! I expect my office managers to be in the office on non-clinical...
by CEDR HR Solutions | Feb 21, 2014 | Ask an HR Expert, Handbooks & Policies
I get asked a lot of questions about employee issues because it’s what we do here, including questions surrounding the sudden revelation that an employee is also working at a strip club. Or even, as in two other cases (yes, I said TWO!) finding out an employee...
by CEDR HR Solutions | Mar 12, 2014 | Ask an HR Expert, Team Troubleshooting
Hint: Sometimes “marching to a different drummer” means they’re heading in the wrong direction. We’ve talked about employees who won’t follow procedures before – whether they fail to follow your policy for requesting disability accommodations,...
by CEDR HR Solutions | Jun 13, 2014 | Risk Management, Team Troubleshooting
Just the other day, I got a call about a suspected employee embezzlement situation, in which a doctor had just discovered that $5,000 in cash was missing. Now, seven days later, the amount missing has turned out to be more like $80,000 – so I decided I’d write this...