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How can employers help their staff to stay on task while navigating through this new blended work and home life situation that has become a reality for so many? What work standards and expectations are considered too much or too little? To help businesses operate effectively through the COVID-19 pandemic, the team at LDHR has identified five ways to help employers lead their employees and maximize their performance through these unprecedented circumstances.

The experience we are living today is definitely unprecedented. We must adapt to the unknown and do our best to cope. Now, more than ever, we need to stay connected and help each other to keep positive. The team at LD Human Resources is here to support you and your business to navigate through this uncertainty. In an effort to help you manage and rise above, we’ve prepared a few tips on how you can practice self-care during this COVID-19 pandemic. Below are some ideas.

As an employer, are you prepared to effectively manage your business should Canada experience a pandemic with Coronoavirus (COVID-19)? The following recommendations will assist you in proactively preparing for contingency business operations, as well as your human resources policies, and procedures.

Without opportunities for professional development and a clear trajectory for promotion, good employees often resign well before the employer can change their mind. To incentivize employees and help build out a professional development plan, LDHR offers business owners a checklist to help start one of their own.

If emotional intelligence isn’t your forté, and the holidays make you feel anxious, you’re not alone. We offer employers and people managers a guide to feeling their true feelings during the holidays, and how to help their employees do the same. Curious to learn how? 

How do you, as an employer, show appreciation towards your staff without putting them on the naughty list this year? The team at LDHR has pooled our combined 65 years’ of experience in the field to ensure you avoid these seven common holiday party mistakes and a potential HR disaster.

One year since cannabis (aka marijuana) became legalized in Canada, a new phase of legalization begins. Wondering what the new products are, and if you have the right training andpolicies in place to keep your employees safe?

There are many benefits to being self-employed in Canada. It’s probably why the number of self-employed Canadians is staggering and continues to grow exponentially. Stats Canada reports that there were 2.8 million self-employed individuals in 2018; of those, 1.1 million were living in Ontario. Here is a quick list of the benefits of being self-employed.

How do you delicately tell an employee they have body odour? While this is not an easy conversation to have, it is an absolute necessity if it is affecting other staff members and the quality of your work environment. Our experts at LD Human Resources weigh-in to provide you five simple tips for addressing body odour in the workplace and how to do it from a place of care.

When we’re involved in the day to day grind of our working lives, we sometimes lose sight of our most important assets – our people. So as an employer, what do you do to ensure your teams work together in the most productive and efficient manner? Here are a few simple and inexpensive strategies you can employ to encourage engagement.