HR For Small Business I Human Resources, CFO, Corporate, Compliance, Recruiting
This podcast provides practical, real-world human resources guidance for small business leaders. Host Brad Voorhees, founder of ScaleTx HR Advisory, covers topics such as compliance, hiring, performance issues, and building an effective HR department. It is designed for owners and managers who find themselves handling HR tasks without dedicated HR expertise, helping them move from reacting to problems to leading through them.
Episodes
Episode 24 : Why CEOs Are Losing Confidence in Their HR Departments (And How to Win It Back)
Is your HR person brought into strategic conversations while decisions are still being shaped, or only after the decision is made, to handle compliance?
If your CEO were asked today whether HR adds strategic value or just process oversight, which answer would they give honestly?
Has your HR person ever had a senior mentor walk them through a real strategic decision, or have they only ever had acce
Episode 23 : Why Corporate America Is Quietly Eliminating HR Departments — Is Yours Next? Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know.
If your CFO asked what would actually break if your HR function were cut in half, could you give a strategic answer — or just a list of daily tasks?
Can you name one piece of real HR infrastructure your team has built in the last year — a comp philosophy, a performance framework, a workforce plan — versus tasks they've simply executed?
Is your HR person's time currently protected for building anyt
Episode 22 : Your CFO Is Gambling on Compliance, do you know what's at risk? Every Small Business Owner Needs This Answer.
Can you name, with confidence, the specific test that determines whether a role is exempt or non-exempt in your company — or is it based on title and gut feel?
When was the last time your employee handbook was reviewed by someone with current, specialized compliance expertise?
When a borderline HR or compliance decision comes up in your company, does it get a second expert opinion before it's fina
Episode 21 : Is Your Corporate Structure Setting Your HR Person Up to Fail? A Question Every CFO Should Ask.
In the last twelve months, has your HR person come to you with a strategic decision you genuinely didn't have the expertise to guide them through?
Who is actually mentoring your HR person's judgment calls — not approving their budget, but reviewing their reasoning before a decision becomes permanent?
If your HR generalist made a procedural mistake on a serious investigation tomorrow, would anyone
Episode 20 : What Happens to Recruiting When Your HR Mentor Has a Real System
Are your open roles staying open because the talent isn't there — or because your process is losing good candidates before you notice?
If you filled your next role in five weeks instead of four months, what would that actually be worth to your business?
Does your HR person dread every open req — or trust the process enough to run it with confidence?
Last episode, I walked you through the recr
Episode 19 : Why Compliance Doesn't Fix Itself When Your HR Department Has No Leader
If an employee filed a complaint tomorrow, would your documentation actually hold up — or are you hoping it never gets tested?
When's the last time anyone actually reread your employee handbook — not updated it, just reread it?
Is 'no news is good news' actually true for your HR compliance — or is it just risk you haven't been billed for yet?
Compliance is the part of HR nobody thinks about —
Episode 18 : The Recruiting Mistakes Small Businesses Make Without an HR Mentor
Is your 'HR person' actually running your hiring process — or just administering it?
How many of your last five hires would you make again — and do you actually know why the ones that failed, failed?
If your best employee quit tomorrow, could your hiring process replace them — or would you be starting from zero?
Here's a stat that should bother every CFO listening right now: the average bad hi
Episode 17 : 5 Compliance Risks Hiding in Your HR Department (And How to Fix Them Fast)
Which of these five compliance risks is already hiding in your HR department — and nobody's flagged it yet?
If someone audited your files today, would your job titles hold up against what your employees actually do?
How many performance conversations happened this year that never made it into a file?
I can almost guarantee you that at least one of the five things I'm about to walk through is happe
Episode 16 : Is Your CFO Running HR? Here’s Why That’s a Compliance Risk
When was the last time a genuinely risky HR decision got made at your company — and who actually signed off on it?
Is your CFO answering HR questions they were never trained to answer?
What happens when the person managing your financial risk is also deciding what's legally defensible on the HR side?
Here's a question I ask on almost every discovery call, and it tends to get quiet real fast: "When
Episode 15 : Human Resources Isn't Failing Your CFO — So Why Do You Keep Treating It Like It Is? Here's What to Want Instead.
Do you actually know what you mean when you tell your HR person to 'be more strategic' — or is that just the word you reach for when you can't name the real problem?
If your HR person can't make a big decision without checking in with you first, have you ever actually told them which decision you wish they could make alone?
Is your HR person really failing you — or are you and your CFO speaking tw
Episode 14 : The CFO Isn't Your HR Mentor — Here's Who Should Be
Is your HR Generalist asking the CFO questions that no CFO should be expected to answer?
Who is actually developing your HR team—and is that person qualified to mentor the next HR leader?
Could your biggest HR challenge be a lack of mentorship rather than a lack of talent?
In today's episode of HR for Small Business, we're talking about why your CFO isn't your HR mentor—and who should be.
Whether
Episode 13 : Is Your Recruiting Process Creating Compliance Risks You Can't See?
Could your recruiting process be creating legal risks without anyone on your team realizing it?
If someone audited your hiring process tomorrow, could you confidently defend every interview, hiring decision, and piece of documentation?
Are your hiring managers helping protect your business—or unknowingly increasing your compliance risk every time they interview a candidate?
In today's episode of H
Episode 12 : 4 Compliance Gaps That Grow When HR Sits Under the CFO
Is your HR department reporting to the CFO—and could that structure be creating compliance risks you haven't noticed?
Who is coaching your managers, updating your HR practices, and looking ahead for compliance issues before they become expensive problems?
Are your biggest HR compliance gaps the result of poor execution... or simply a lack of strategic HR leadership?
In today's episode of HR for Sm
Episode 11 : Could a Human Resources Mentor Fix Your Department Fast?
Is your HR department missing another employee... or is it missing someone to lead and mentor the team?
Why does your HR team stay busy every day, yet still feel like it's constantly falling behind?
Could an HR mentor be the fastest way to build confidence, consistency, and stronger leadership without hiring a full-time HR Director?
The truth is, many HR departments don't need more people before t
Episode 10 : This Is What Happens When Recruiting Has No HR Leader
Is your recruiting process actually broken... or is it missing the leadership needed to make it work?
What is inconsistent hiring really costing your business in time, money, and employee turnover?
What would change if someone was leading your recruiting strategy instead of just managing open positions?
If your HR department doesn't have someone setting the strategy, coaching hiring managers, crea
Episode 9 : Stop Letting Your CFO Run Human Resources (Do THIS Instead)
Has your CFO quietly become the head of HR without anyone realizing it?
What is it really costing your business when your CFO spends more time solving people problems than financial ones?
If your HR team needs leadership, mentorship, and direction, is your CFO truly the right person to provide it?
In today's episode of HR for Small Business, we're discussing why so many companies unintentionally p
Episode 8 : Don’t want to spend money on an HR Leader? 3 Ways to Get Top Talent for Cheap
Do you really need to spend six figures on an HR Director to build a strong HR department?
Are you investing in HR talent—or simply throwing money at the problem and hoping it works?
What if the expertise your business needs already exists inside your organization, and you're overlooking it?
You know you need stronger HR leadership.
But do you really need to spend six figures on an HR Director to
Episode 7 : 3 Things a Human Resources Mentor Does That a CFO Can't
Has your CFO become the unofficial leader of your HR department—and is it creating challenges nobody is talking about?
Who is mentoring your HR team through employee relations, leadership challenges, and difficult people decisions?
Is your HR department struggling because it lacks resources... or because it lacks experienced guidance?
In today's episode of HR for Small Business, we're talking abou
Episode 6 : What a Real HR Department Looks Like Without an HR Director
If your HR Generalist took a week off tomorrow, would your HR department continue running smoothly—or would everything start piling up?
As a business owner or CFO, are you still spending too much time solving people problems that HR should be handling?
Does your company actually need a full-time HR Director—or are you missing something more important?
In today's episode of HR for Small Business, w
Episode 5 : Why You Are the Wrong Person to Lead Your HR Department
Is your HR department reporting to finance simply because nobody else is available to lead it?
If your HR Generalist needed senior-level guidance tomorrow, who would they turn to?
How much of your week is being consumed by HR decisions you were never hired or trained to make?
In today's episode of HR for Small Business, we're talking about why so many CFOs and finance leaders find themselves leadi
Episode 4 : Is Your HR Department One Compliance Audit Away From a Crisis?
If a compliance investigator called your business tomorrow, would your HR department know exactly what to do—or would everyone be scrambling for answers?
When was the last time you reviewed your handbook, policies, employee files, and manager practices to make sure they're still protecting your business?
Are you confident your HR department is reducing risk every day, or are small compliance gaps
Episode 3 : This Is Why Your HR Department Needs a Mentor, Not a Human Resources Director
Is your HR department being led strategically, or is everyone simply hoping it figures itself out?
When does an HR Generalist need mentorship and guidance more than a full-time HR Director above them?
What risks are quietly building inside your business when HR is operating without structure, leadership, and support?
In today’s episode, I’m going to explain why hiring a full-time HR Director is no
Episode 2 : Stop Patching Your Human Resources Problems: Your Department Needs This Instead
Is your HR department solving problems… or simply reacting to them as they happen?
How much time are you and your team spending putting out HR fires that could have been prevented with the right structure?
If your HR Generalist took a week off tomorrow, would your HR processes continue running smoothly—or would everything come to a halt?
In today’s episode of HR for Small Business, we’re talking a
Episode 1 : Your CFO Can't Mentor Your Human Resources Team Through This: But Someone Can
Are you tired of playing the role of HR Director?
Do you feel overwhelmed when you face something in HR for the first time and you don’t know what to do?
Do you feel ready to lead an HR department on your own this early in your career?
In this episode of the HR for Small Business podcast, we’re diving into a challenge that many small businesses face, your HR leader quits right after they just brou
HR For Small Business Podcast Trailer
Are you the one losing sleep over HR… even though it’s not supposed to be your job?
Maybe your HR Generalist is doing their best—but they don’t have the experience to lead.
Maybe your CFO is stuck playing HR.
Or maybe you’re just tired of guessing your way through compliance, hiring, and performance issues or any of the other HR problems your small business faces.
That’s exactly why this podca
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