"I pay my HR person too much..."
Have you ever said or thought such a thing? Don't get me wrong, typically, the person responsible for the HR has been an executive assistant/controller/marketing/cleaning rep/sales/service/accounts payable/receivables and eventually without any formal training save for "figuring it out as we go" been moved into a role where we call them "HR".
Or maybe you have hired your first or second full-time HR person and they are bringing in $65-80,000/year and for the most part, they deal with all the crap you and I don't want to... It's understandable.
DISCLAIMER: I have nothing against HR people and for the most part, they are a total godsend. So with respect, read on.
After 40 minutes or so with Doug Pepin, I was blown away by the level of accountability required for an HR person to "earn their keep". Doug works as a fractional HR director which means he brings 20+ years of experience to do the job you need VERY well. But instead of having to pay someone full-time, or to pay someone too much in comparison with the amount of work they do, Doug is making a massive impact for companies that are considering hiring their first full-time employee all the way up to having 400 full-time W-2s. He works with them on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to build out their manuals, recover any compliance vulnerabilities and all the way up to processing I-9s and making sure employee files are kept to standards and keep OSHA happy on the back-end. He ends up saving clients over 75% of their HR expense and is able to coach and guide the HR person once it's appropriate for someone to be there full-time.
Once again, I'm impressed by how easily doing the "right thing for the company" by all intentions could end up being one of the most costly. Props to all the business coaches and consultants out there that actually save their clients from making costly mistakes.
I've learned more from 1000 mistakes than I ever did from a handful of success. I've paid for others to share their mistakes with me along the way so I didn't end up paying even more down the road.
-JMJ