By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady
Join BLR’s Founder and CEO on a guided tour through the newly upgraded and redesigned HR website, HR.BLR.com
I tend to use this space to write about management challenges and HR issues, but let me assure you, I’m no ivory-tower CEO. As my people will tell you, I’m down in the trenches with them (maybe more than they’d like), especially on product development.
There’s nothing more challenging and fascinating in our trenches than our award-winning website, HR.BLR.com, a new edition of which we’ve just released.
Now I know that HR.BLR.com has long had the best, most comprehensive and most practical analysis, the most up-to-date HR news, the best collection of training materials, and the best compliance tools available. (Did I mention that I’m humble?)
But having the best solution to your problem—no matter how good—means nothing if you can’t find it on the website when you need it. That makes user interface our biggest challenge. So I’ve been working with our Web team to make sure that you can quickly get to just what you want and to save you from long lists of irrelevant search results.
BLR’s “everything in HR in one place” website, HR.BLR.com, now includes professionally narrated audio training sessions. Click for a no-cost, no-risk trial.
I think we’re there with this new release, but I’d love for you to help me see if I’m right. Take your biggest HR challenge or your pickiest little problem, go to HR.BLR.com (no www needed), look for a solution, and then write me at rbrady@blr.com and let me know if we solved your problem. (I’ll tell you how to sign up for free access below.)
A Better Interface Is Only the Beginning
I’m into continuous improvement, so I wasn’t going to stop with the interface. I also challenged our Web team to work on “user friendliness.” I wanted to let you customize the site, leave notes, and make bookmarks—and I wanted to add even more content.
Let me tell you about the most interesting and helpful changes we’ve made.
—Audio Training Presentations. One addition that I’m most excited about is our new collection of 35 audio training presentations. They’re in customizable PowerPoint® format, are all professionally narrated and cover topics like harassment, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and workplace violence. The most popular presentations come in English and Spanish. You can find all of the audio presentations at http://hr.blr.com/training.aspx?type=113.
Once you’ve signed in, you can instantly play any of them, right on your screen.
—Drag and Drop Widgets. I’m also delighted to announce that the site’s home page can now be set up the way you want it. Just move the page elements around by dragging and dropping them in place. HR.BLR.com will remember your setup whenever you log in.
—Built-In Bookmarking. HR.BLR.com now offers internal bookmarking, which means that you can instantly access your favorite pages from any computer.
Try HR.BLR.com at no cost and no risk. Click here or call us at 800-727-5257. You may never want to leave!
—Digital Notes. Say goodbye to sticky notes on your monitor. HR.BLR.com now offers digital notes, attachable to any file or feature. Your notes will be waiting whenever you visit that area again.
—Newsletter Wizard. We’ve heard from customers who want to create newsletters but just don’t have the time or the expertise. I thought we could solve that problem, and now HR.BLR.com includes ready-to-use newsletter templates so you can easily create custom newsletters.
I asked Amy Champlin, our own HR manager, to check out all the new features at HR.BLR.com. “It’s like a personal assistant now,” she said. “You tell it how you want your information and it’s there.” Or you might call it a personal, personnel assistant.
But you don’t need to take Amy’s word for it, or mine—you can go to HR.BLR.com and decide for yourself. Just click the link below and sign up for a no-cost trial. There’s no obligation at all, and it will let you access everything HR.BLR.com has to offer.
Then poke around all you like! Check out our audio training, sample policies and prewritten job descriptions, compliance tips, or easy-to-understand analyses of all key HR laws. And as I said, try it on your own workplace issues, and let me know the results.
Again, to sign up, just click the link below. Or, if you’d rather know more in a personal way, call 800-727-5257 and ask for Customer Service. One of our reps will be happy to set up a real-time orientation to the site at your convenience.
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This is possibly one of the most asinine articles I’ve ever read. First, one of the purposes for an H. R. department is to match the right person to the job, employing only those persons qualified for the position – not counting race, creed, color, religion, etc. If they are not doing so, then changes need to be made within that particular department. Second, if supervisors and above are not properly trained in communicating the job responsibilities to an employee, changes should be made immediately. Third, and finally regarding the different faces of harrassment, if employees (upper management or not) are not versed in the law, training should also begin immediately. Why would a “good” employer demand this kind of obligation of an employee, who in all probability, can barely afford medical insurance and other bare essentials. [Rates of pay have not kept up the increases in cost of living.] Those suggesting such a short-sighted proposal may be among those who, in all probability, would need such coverage.
If the employer believes this kind of assurance is required, then the employer should bare the cost-not the employee. Find an insurance company who will provide a rider to cover the cost. Good luck!