In nearly 14 years of leading my own small business and offering fractional HR support to other small employers, one thing stands out....

Are you managing HR in a small employer who often comes in to work with a plan, only to realize at the end of the day that nothing on...

Throughout my HR career, I've worked with organizations of all shapes and sizes, from big-box retailers and privately owned shops to...

There are a few hills I will die on. One of them involves screaming from the rooftops that managing HR in a small employer (1-500...

If you asked me for my elevator pitch I would say that we provide customized, full-service HR support without the overhead of hiring...

If you are anything like me, the mere thought of remembering all the things that need to happen at year end is overwhelming. Closing out...

Keeping up with compliance as a small HR team can honestly feel like a juggling act. Between managing benefits, payroll, documentation,...

HR professionals working solo or in small teams are the ultimate multitaskers—handling everything from onboarding to compliance, often...

At Acacia, we support employers with teams ranging from 1-500 employees. In that range, the types of individuals handling HR vary...

In the world of HR, people always come first—but that doesn’t mean technology can’t play a significant role in improving how things run...

Today, we're talking about something serious but often overlooked: natural disaster planning for small companies. Yep, that's right,...

I will tell anyone who listens that I am a personality type junkie. Myers Briggs, DiSC, Enneagram, StrengthFinders, Hogan, Big5, pick...

About this time every year we start to get a bevy of calls from small business leaders considering outsourcing their HR for the next...

A question I find myself asking often is “what is the desired outcome for this project.” This happens with clients when they are asking...

In last week’s post I introduced our new blog series for 2021. Each week a member of our team will be sharing what they are working on…in...

One of the more fun and sometimes challenging parts of working with small businesses is finding ways to have strategic level HR programs...

Confrontation. I have learned it is a cultural thing. Some cultures naturally are more comfortable with confrontation than others. Those...