HR Party of One
HR Party of One is your human resources how-to. Featuring engaging discussions on the latest HR issues facing fast-growing small businesses and startups. Each episode provides captivating, actionable insights on topics including hiring, culture, technology, leadership, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 261
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What You Need to Know to Prepare Your Company for Next Year
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The end of the year is rapidly approaching. Betwe…
COVID-19: Can HR Require Mandatory Vaccinations?
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As the end of the year approaches, there’s more a…
Are Employers Required to Give Employees Time Off to Vote?
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Unlike many other countries, the United States do…
How HR Can Audit and Update an Existing PTO Policy
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When was the last time you audited your PTO polic…
COVID-19 Screening Apps: Reviews and Communication Best Practices
Teams in search of COVID-19 symptom screening apps may not know where to begin or what features they’re looking for. In this episode, host Ryan McCostlin reviews popular screener solutions and discus…
COVID-19 Screening Apps: What Are They, and Do They Work?
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Teams in search of COVID-19 symptom screening app…
How HR Can Address the Looming Childcare Crisis
Families are struggling to balance work with teaching and raising children during shelter-in-place orders. In this episode, we discuss what HR can do to help parents on remote teams as schools reopen…
Travel and Coronavirus: Protecting Your Office and Your Team
How do you talk to employees about off-hours travel when there’s a pandemic? In this episode, we cover an employer’s responsibilities during COVID-19, what government agencies tell us about limiting …
How to Track Employee Time & Productivity While Working Remotely
Remote work can be tough on teams. In this episode, we cover the struggles HR professionals face with engagement, the productivity tracking platforms that can solve these issues, and how to communica…
Rehiring a Laid-off Employee During COVID-19
Rehiring employees laid off during COVID-19 is a bit more complicated than simply hiring someone new. In this episode, we provide an overview of legal considerations and how to communicate a rehire o…
Beginner Benefits: Paid Family Leave Options for Small Employers
In this episode, we’re focusing on benefits and how HR can elevate its role when selecting, administering, and managing those offerings. We review the history of parental leave in the United States, …
How to Conduct Open Enrollment Online
Open enrollment season is coming! In this episode, we discuss how to agree on an Open Enrollment timeline with your benefits broker, effectively communicating benefit options to your team effectively…
LGBTQ+ In the Office: How to Foster an Inclusive Workplace
Does the Supreme Court’s LGBTQ+ ruling mean that you need to ask all of your employees to put their preferred pronouns in their email signatures? In this episode, we recap what the Supreme Court’s LG…
Difficult Conversations: You Have to Return to Work
In this episode we break down how to tell your employees they have to return to work. We cover what steps HR needs to take when making the return to work announcement, HR’s role in reviewing exemptio…
How to Recruit and Hire New Graduates
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In this episode we talk about how to recruit new …
Guidelines and Best Practices for Returning to Work
In this episode host Ryan McCostlin covers the necessary steps HR parties of one need to take to ensure their employees’ safety as they return to the office. He provides important information, resour…
Ask an HR Party of One Pro: with Clayton Klutts
In this episode host Ryan McCostlin talks with Clayton Klutts, co-owner and HR party of one at Renaissance Therapy Group, about the challenges faced by small businesses adapting to COVID-19 and how C…
Setting SMART HR Goals
In this episode we cover why SMART goals are important and how SMART goals work. We also provide examples of SMART goals and how HR parties of one can use SMART goals to provide a framework for the m…
HRIS Tips: How to Recruit, Hire, and Retain Millennials
In this episode, we discuss how utilizing a robust human resource information system (HRIS) like BerniePortal allows you to recruit, hire, manage, and retain Millennial employees—all while demonstrat…
Hiring and Onboarding While Working Remotely
In this episode, host Ryan McCostlin is joined by BerniePortal Founder and CEO Alex Tolbert and BerniePortal head of marketing Sarah Weinstein to discuss hiring and onboarding while working remotely.…