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The Hiring Tree - Strategic HR Consulting When it comes to small businesses, your Human Resources department can make or break your business because it helps manage your most valuable asset: PEOPLE.

Your people impact your revenue, growth, and overall customer satisfaction. Call me to help! Steven J Smith, SHRM-CP, PHR, is the author of "The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction." The book is designed to educate hiring professionals, business owners, and corporate recruiters on how to effectively market their jobs to effectively attract applicants to their roles. Using the analogy of an apple tree, the reader will be able to understand how important it is to start with the roots to feed an organizational hiring tree to produce to desired fruit.

For all my Utah followers, I will be speaking at the monthly meeting for Central Utah SHRM. Come join us on Oct 15th at ...
09/30/2026

For all my Utah followers, I will be speaking at the monthly meeting for Central Utah SHRM. Come join us on Oct 15th at the University Place Mall! https://centralutahshrm.org/

09/29/2026

Utah SHRM State Board put on one of the most powerful events of the year!

What is better for the small business owner: Fractional HR Support or Strategic HR Consulting?Tune in to this week's epi...
09/28/2026

What is better for the small business owner: Fractional HR Support or Strategic HR Consulting?

Tune in to this week's episode of podcast to find out what the difference is so that you can make the right decision for your business.

09/26/2026

When you get a chance to speak at the local chamber of commerce, you say YES!

What if the CEO had to sit in the room when someone was laid off?How do you think the CEO would react in looking at a la...
09/24/2026

What if the CEO had to sit in the room when someone was laid off?

How do you think the CEO would react in looking at a layoff as the solution? Would it be different? Stay the same?

Tune in to this week's episode on podcast.

Most HR leaders can tell you their deductible. Almost none can tell you how their health plan is funded.A benefits broke...
09/15/2026

Most HR leaders can tell you their deductible. Almost none can tell you how their health plan is funded.

A benefits broker with 33 years in the industry gave us a way to think about this on the most recent episode of podcast. He compared a self-funded health plan to an old mechanical clock. You can look at the face and see it is almost five o'clock, but that tells you nothing about how it got there. Self-funding means opening up the clock and looking at every gear, the network, the pharmacy benefit manager, the claims administrator, and being able to swap out whichever piece is not working for you.

A fully insured plan does not give you that option. You pay the premium and the carrier keeps the details.

If you cannot explain which structure your company is on and why, that is worth a conversation with whoever manages your benefits. It might be the most expensive blind spot on your balance sheet.

We go deeper on this, along with a real example of a data driven catch that saved one company two million dollars, in this week's episode with Scott Fielding.

You cannot survey your way into an engaged workforce.I had Sarah Elena with Lumo Leadership on Podcast this week, and ...
09/13/2026

You cannot survey your way into an engaged workforce.

I had Sarah Elena with Lumo Leadership on Podcast this week, and Sarah said something I love. People who are not authentic or fully themselves at work cannot be engaged, because they are too busy hiding who they are.

Think about how many engagement programs skip right past that. Recognition platforms. Pulse surveys. Wellness perks. All bolted onto a culture where people still do not feel safe telling the truth about how they are actually doing.

Engagement is not the starting point. It is the result. It shows up after people feel safe enough to be honest, connected enough to their own values to bring real effort, and trusted enough to believe their work matters.

If your engagement scores are not moving, the fix probably is not another program. It is whether your people believe they can be honest with you in the first place.

Full episode is on The HR Life Podcast, and the blog breakdown is on The Hiring Tree if you want the rest of the conversation.

Why do so many of your policies just die on the vine?I ran an experiment years ago while researching my book, The Hiring...
09/11/2026

Why do so many of your policies just die on the vine?

I ran an experiment years ago while researching my book, The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction. We built an interview process for a client and simply handed managers a checklist to follow. 17% of them actually completed it start to finish.

Then we tried something different. Same process, same client, but this time we sat down with those managers first and let them help build it. They shaped the timeline. They shaped the steps. Completion jumped to 83%.

Nothing about the process itself changed. What changed was who felt ownership of it.

I was talking about this on Podcast with Sarah and Elena of Lumo Leadership, and Elena said it better than I ever have. If a manager has no say in something, they will not own it. If they do not own it, you cannot expect them to follow through.

If your rollout is stalling, check who actually helped design it before you blame the people you handed it to.

Full conversation is up on The HR Life Podcast if you want to hear the rest. Links in the comments.

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