HR Tips for Small Businesses: Jennifer Beattie on Remote Team Performance and Engagement
Jennifer Beattie, founder of Culture on Camera, is the virtual HR sidekick for small businesses. She specializes in helping managers lead distributed teams – whether in-office, hybrid, or fully remote – and is passionate about making HR painless for companies who don’t yet need full-time HR staff. She recently sat down with us to share…
Why Cascading Objectives Create Stronger, Aligned Teams
Imagine building a house without a blueprint. One team lays the foundation, another installs windows, and a third starts painting walls that haven’t been built yet. Even if each team is skilled and hardworking, the house won’t stand. That’s what happens in companies when teams set goals in isolation. Without alignment, even great work can…
29 Questions to Ask Your New Hires
We’re thrilled to kick off our Template Toolkit with a powerful resource: the Pulse Surveys Template we use here at Small Improvements! Designed specifically for new hires 30 days into their onboarding journey, this survey has helped us boost productivity, engagement, and alignment between employees and their managers. It’s a simple yet effective way to…
10 tips every manager needs to grow
Employee insights are valuable to any company, but only if we act on it. Learn about how you can create effective feedback action plans.
What do I do with all this feedback? Here’s your feedback action plan
Employee insights are valuable to any company, but only if we act on it. Learn about how you can create effective feedback action plans.
Beyond ‘good job’: Unlock meaningful employee recognition with 5 questions
Being noticed and appreciated by others is deeply motivating. Recognition matters, but how do you make recognition meaningful and impactful?
The 10 Best Performance Management Tools in 2025 (And How to Choose the Right One for Your Team)
Why companies are rethinking performance right now Performance management has come a long way from the once-a-year review and vague development goals. Many teams are moving away from rigid processes and starting to ask a more useful question: how can we help employees grow while still hitting goals as a company? For most, that means…
