Tag Archives: team success
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Humility Is the Key to Rewarding Feedback
Posted on 11.03.2017
Seeking feedback from your employees requires both humility and recognizing your own room for growth, your motives are also equally as important. For example, do you really want to be great at what you do, or do you want to be seen as great? That distinction is important because it requires the willingness to give … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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5 Tips for Virtual Workforce Engagement
Posted on 09.22.2017
Two of the hot topics in business today—employee engagement and workplace flexibility—can often seem at odds in terms of the virtual workforce. As working from home, at client sites, or second locations has increased, this has led to a decrease in employee engagement; however, there’s more to it than mere distance. The number-one reason virtual … Continue reading
Posted in HR Risk Mitigation
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Minimize Your Company’s Risk with a Hands-Free Driving Policy!
Posted on 08.28.2017
Recent studies have shown that drivers who use their cell phones while driving—whether holding the phone or using a hands-free device—have a much higher risk of collision than those who do not. In fact, one-in-five car crashes are now related to driver distraction, and texting while driving makes a car accident 23 times more likely … Continue reading
Posted in HR Risk Mitigation
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Develop and Encourage Profitability
Posted on 07.19.2017
Have you ever heard someone refer to their job as “just a support role”, or “an administrative position”? Our focus as Leaders is often fixated on the sales, technical and production roles and we unintentionally overlook the needs and potential of those we assign to “support roles”. The reality is that administrative and supportive jobs … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Avoid the business growing pains by focusing on People Performance!
Posted on 07.07.2017
People Performance: Growing from a family-style business to a larger company with a more remote management style was challenging, so we were referred to Achilles Group for their expertise. They put us at ease right from the start by being so personable, and their flexible approach worked perfectly for us. They also have great ideas … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Employee Handbooks: A Solid Foundation for Business Growth
Posted on 06.26.2017
An Employee Reflection on the Crest Management Success Story Earlier this month we shared a Success Story from Crest Management, one of our recent clients. Specifically, we focused on the work that we did to help improve their HR Infrastructure by updating their employee handbook. Now that you’ve heard the client’s perspective, we’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in HR Risk Mitigation
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The Importance of Strategy Alignment
Posted on 04.05.2017
Leveraging the Right Priorities Fundamentally, leadership is about getting others to go in the direction you set with full competency and commitment. The challenge is that you’re often too busy to sit down to agree upon that direction or to take the time to really lay out the strategies that truly focus on your business … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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Leadership that Starts with the Heart
Posted on 02.09.2017
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, a time to celebrate love and relationships. And while you don’t always hear the word love when it comes to the workplace, it’s been proven that employees who feel that they work in a supportive, encouraging, caring culture, perform better. At Achilles Group we believe the number one accountability … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Promises Delivered
Posted on 01.17.2017
“First Presbyterian Church, Houston, first came to Achilles Group after our HR Director we had on staff was leaving. It was our former HR Director that actually recommended that we outsource since it was so hard to find one person to keep up with everything. When researching different firms, we found that the larger firms … Continue reading
Posted in Client Success Stories
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Guidance and Support to 2H Offshore, Inc.
Posted on 08.09.2016
“When we first began working with Achilles Group in 2009, we had 38 employees. We reached over 120 before spinning off a small group to create a new company. Achilles has helped us navigate this exciting time by reducing some growing pains via thoughtful counsel, offering timely guidance as we hit different periods in our … Continue reading
Posted in Other
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Job Descriptions ≠ Job Ads
Posted on 08.01.2016
Writing a job ad that recruits the right candidates. In order to recruit the right candidates, you need a carefully crafted job advertisement. A job description is a document that describes the responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for a position. Usually, it follows a predetermined format that’s designed to meet internal HR requirements, not to … Continue reading
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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Spotlight on: Monica Scott and Vacations
Posted on 07.26.2016
Summertime is vacation time, and our Employee of the Month, Monica Scott, recently took a trip to visit Walt Disney World in Florida, where her daughter is currently interning. Monica is a dedicated HR Generalist who loves partnering with her clients and helping them grow. But, like any hard working professional, she feels like it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Other
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Encouraging Leaders
Posted on 07.05.2016
We all need leaders in our business, not just managers, expeditors, supervisors or command and control drill sergeants; though all of these have their own place of importance. We need leaders that understand the fundamental power of encouragement. If you want to grow profitability in your business then learn and apply techniques that encourage growth … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Focus on Recruiting Effectiveness
Posted on 06.20.2016
Recruiting strong talent to your team takes so much more than just posting a job ad and interviewing candidates. Recruiting Effectiveness is one of the four focus areas of our Fractional HR model. We bring the expertise and resources to install Recruiting Effectiveness as a competitive advantage. We partner with your leaders to build a … Continue reading
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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HR Support for a Growing Company
Posted on 06.13.2016
When Mustang Gas Compression first reached out to Achilles Group, they knew they need some HR support, but not enough to require a full-time, in-house HR department. “We needed a stable, consistent HR department and having our own HR department didn’t work for us,” says Mustang Chief Financial Officer, Jay McKeown. “We loved Achilles Group’s … Continue reading
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Providing Strategic HR Support to Global Healthcare Alliance, Inc.
Posted on 05.09.2016
Global Healthcare Alliance, Inc. has delivered direct billing support for physician groups since it was founded more than 30 years ago by world-renown heart surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. Global turned to Achilles Group for strategic human resources support when they experienced an internal HR split between their office and payroll departments. While Achilles Group … Continue reading
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7 Tips for Difficult Conversations
Posted on 05.02.2016
No one likes to have difficult conversations. But if you’re a manager, chances are it’s part of your job. When it comes to talking to an employee about poor performance or behavioral issues, there are a few things you can do to help the conversation go as smoothly as possible. Here are seven tips for … Continue reading
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The Benefits of Fractional HR
Posted on 04.18.2016
Some models give you fractional A or B or C. At Achilles Group, we give you Fractional A and B and C! Here are a few benefits of using our Fractional HR approach: 1. Reduce stress. Let’s face it: human resources sometimes means dealing with uncomfortable situations. And many of those situations are accompanied by … Continue reading
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Human Resources “Heavy Lifting” for Vista Host, Inc.
Posted on 04.11.2016
Vista Host, Inc. is a hotel development and management company with more than 25 hotels in 10 different states – that’s a lot of employees in many different locations! “We feel that Achilles Group accomplishes our ‘Human Resources Heavy Lifting,’” says Cindy Matulich, chief financial officer for Vista Host, Inc. “We no longer worry about … Continue reading
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Creating a Bond with Remote Employees
Posted on 04.04.2016
With more employees working remotely than ever before, it’s important to make sure everyone feels like a part of the team. Research has consistently found that an engaged workforce is a more productive and profitable workforce, so how can you create a bond with remote employees? Create a “virtual water cooler.” When employees work remotely, … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance