• HR Compliance Audit & Employee Records Review
• With EMPO you can forget your business´ compliance and records concerns. No more anxiety over which documents you really need to keep, whether or not your records are complete or where your important documents are the safest. Our HR experts sample your active employee files for items that should be included, those that should be maintained elsewhere, and those that are unnecessary to retain. Individual paperwork is also reviewed for completeness.
• Terminated employee files are also sampled. This review concentrates on retention of required items. Payroll files are also checked for completeness and appropriate retention periods.

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• Employee Handbook Review & Customized Updates
• An employee handbook is more than a compliance book of do´s and don´ts. It´s a legally binding document that helps ensure that boundaries and expectations are written and understood. It is also legal proof and can be your defense in a wrongful suit or other such claim. EMPO can help develop and/or update your policy handbook to better communicate with your employees while ensuring greater legal compliance.

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• Customized Job Descriptions
• Crafting job descriptions is one less worry with EMPO. We will provide customized job descriptions for each position within your organization that accurately detail the expectations and functions of the position, while ensuring the description is FLSA and ADA compliant.

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• Employee Relations Assistance
• EMPO provides day-to-day and on-site employee relations advice. Ideally, every employee will become a model employee, but that is not always the case. In these instances, EMPO will work with you to plan a reasonable exit strategy.

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• Hiring & Termination Procedures
• With EMPO you´ll gain support and confidence in two critical business processes: hiring and firing. To strengthen these areas of your business, we will review your hiring and termination procedures. Hiring managers are interviewed, and a report of suggested modifications is drafted, if necessary.

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• Unemployment Insurance & Claims Administration
• This is a review of any unemployment records as well as a review of state quarterly reports of claims paid for the last six calendar quarters. This review will be followed by a review of terminated employee files to which the state has granted benefits and files where the employer was favored.

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• Performance Reviews, Training Templates & Consultation
• Maintain consistency through the employee review process with EMPO´s performance review forms and templates. We can provide the forms and templates used for a basic overview of the performance review process.

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• Termination Assistance
• Enlist our HR experts to help guide you through one of the most unpleasant (and risky) areas of business management: terminations. In the days, weeks and months leading up to an employee´s involuntary departure from your company, EMPO will provide you guidance to ensure that the termination meets legal standards. Was the employee given sufficient chances to improve? Was he/she warned that the termination might occur? Was there sufficient documentation? EMPO will work with you (on-site if needed) to ensure that when the time for termination comes that all your bases are covered.

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• Customized Employment Forms
• Say goodbye to time-gobbling employment form creation. We offer an array of employer forms drafted by our insightful HR professionals. If needed, EMPO can work with you to design customized forms to meet your company´s specific needs.

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• Sexual Harassment & Offensive Behavior Training
• Prevention is always the best medicine to ensure that employees understand what is acceptable workplace behavior. EMPO provides sexual harassment and offensive behavior training and coaching for staff and management. Minimally, we will provide training on harassment every 18–24 months—more often if you experience high turnover.

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• On-Call/On-Site Assistance
• EMPO´s human resource team has over 60 years of combined experience negotiating all types of HR issues. Our seasoned experts are ready, willing and able to help with any HR question, issue or matter that you may encounter.

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• Affirmative Action Plan
• EMPO offers the preparation of the initial plan through certification by the state and also offers the on-going annual components required by these plans.

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• On-Site Coaching
• EMPO can provide one-on-one coaching for employees and supervisors who need a performance boost; for example, an employee might need a cooperation refresher; or a newly promoted manager could need to learn supervisory skills; or an executive may benefit from enhanced leadership skills.

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• Incentive Program Design
• EMPO can design bonus and commission plans, or other forms of performance incentives based on your goals, requirements and business.

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• Reward/Recognition Program Design
• EMPO can assist you in identifying, designing and implementing a "best fit" rewards system linking employee actions to positive consequences.

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• Compensation Analysis/Structure Design
• To support and justify your compensation structures, EMPO can design and develop a market-based compensation plan that reviews the positions, the industry and the size of your company.

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• Skills Assessment Testing
• EMPO can provide you with our Basic Skills Test (and the key) to help qualify job candidates. Additionally, we can offer more in-depth testing and profiling of an employee´s skills.

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• Executive & Line Staff Recruiting
• Whether it is a line worker, middle manager or executive, EMPO´s top-notch recruiting partners will ensure that you source the best candidates for your positions and company.

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• Bilingual/Cultural Services
• Have a multicultural workforce? EMPO can translate HR documents or conversations/trainings for you and/or your bilingual employees. We are also partnered with a firm that specializes in multicultural team building, diversity training and bilingual employee benefit and safety education.

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• Customized Performance Reviews & Training
• EMPO can customize a basic one-on-one performance review process and handle the entire process or train an on-site person to complete the confidential paperwork and analysis.

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• 360-Degree Performance Management System
• This is an in-depth, multi-rater assessment enabling employees to view themselves from many different perspectives (self, manager, co-workers and direct reports). This process promotes goal setting and quarterly check-ins on goal achievements. EMPO can handle the entire process or train an on-site person to complete the confidential paperwork and analysis.

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• Organization Development
• Through EMPO´s organization development services, we can help you evaluate and/or create human performance systems designed to maximize your organization´s potential.
• Business Model Analysis & Development To position you for financial growth and market share capture, EMPO can help you develop a systematic review of your organization´s capabilities, market conditions and strategy.
• Strategic Planning Facilitating your strategic planning process and guiding your leadership team through a disciplined process including creating goals, actions and time lines that reflect your organization´s priorities and objectives is easy with EMPO.
• Stakeholder Analysis Who are your stakeholders and how do they impact your business objectives? To support your strategic decision making, we conduct an efficient and comprehensive analysis identifying, interviewing and profiling stakeholders. Another key goal of stakeholder analysis is to ensure that all involved parties receive what they need from each other to encourage a productive and mutually beneficial relationship.
• Futuring Bring the future of your business into focus. We help you explore both the short and long-term implications of a policy change, emerging trend, innovation, strategic objective or circumstance.
• Training & Development To help you tap into your employees´ full potential and harness the existing skills and knowledge within your organization, EMPO can provide training and development services. Our "Skill Multiplier" strategies will align your staff´s strengths with your organization´s goals. It will also distribute vital competencies throughout your organization.
• Individual Leadership Development To help your middle managers become more productive and effective, we provide 360-degree assessments, continuous feedback, one-on-one coaching, mentoring, and training and development programs.
• Middle Management Development Support and engage your middle managers and supervisors with our process and development strategies.
• Senior Leadership Team Development EMPO can help you develop your strategic leadership team and position it for success. Specifically we will help establish a team vision and mission, help with alignment and engagement around business/strategic objectives, evaluate the team´s performance and help create team as well as individual development plans.
• Succession Planning Identifying, analyzing and developing leadership strength within your organization is a snap with EMPO. We also provide education to help you groom your talented employees for higher level and broader responsibilities.
• Large-scale Organization Culture Change Facilitation Through the use of large-scale change technology, we quickly and effectively facilitate successful business-wide change. These services have created significant culture and productivity enhancements in hundreds of companies and organizations worldwide.
• Dysfunctional Teams Are power struggles, mission creep, and toxic personalities undermining the morale, progress, and success of your organization? We offer a wide range of solutions to encourage positive conduct.
• Leading Bold Change We are one of 30 facilitators certified to deliver former Harvard Business School professor John Kotter´s powerful organizational change and development training program. Based on Kotter´s best-selling business book Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Condition, this program delivers a proven road map for orchestrating the fundamental change required for your business to adapt and move with today´s markets.
• Process Improvement EMPO can evaluate and review your company´s processes and enhance your organization´s systems and/or processes including Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Balanced Scorecard.
• Systems Improvement We can help you reduce systems costs through job analysis, value chain analysis, personnel development, and personnel management.

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