HR for Small Business | Easy HR tools & Best Practices

ConnectsUs HR™ & COVID Toolkit for Small Business provides the tools and resources you need to fast-track or improve your HR fundamentals.

It's powered by our Resource Center - like having a friendly HR Consultant by your side. It speaks business casual and is full of no-nonsense pragmatic tools and advice. Best of all, it's open 24/7 so you're never alone.

What you Get

250 premium coordinated HR templates
Not just a grab-bag of mediocre documents. The Resource Center will guide you to download and save any or all of our 250 quality templates, and help you set them up in a number of different ways to create noticeably better HR. Learm more.
Employee Handbooks
2 versions: Basic & Comprehensive, with step-by-step instructions, updated weekly for 5 jurisdictions. List of topics
HR Kits
Create end-to-end coordinated processes for HR topics such as Employee Handbooks, Contracts and Agreements, recruiting and hiring, performance management.
Pre-Assembled HR Folders
With one click, download a zip file that contains a pre-assembled HR folder structure for an instant HR directory.
COVID-19 Portal
Templates & resources. Up-to-date in one central place.
Legislation Portal & updates
In your inbox every week.
Support
Powered by both our online Resource Center, and real humans and live chat!

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How it Works

Log into the Resource Center
Pick a template to create a document. Access a help page for each template; or
Pick an HR Kit to create processes around an HR topic.
Access COVID-19 and legislation resources.
Get notified of updates.
Create noticeably better HR. Fast.

Benefits

Save time & effort ▼

Don't reinvent the wheel. Spend minimal time and effort creating the professional HR you know you need, but never have time to build. We've done most of the heavy lifting so you can build on premium HR templates created to work together.
Keep a library of curated, premium-quality templates at your fingertips with help for each one.
Don't sweat over wordsmithing. Your strength is HR, not writing. Our professional writers have agonized over every word so you don't have to.
Quality, not Quantity. No more slogging through giant grab-bags of mediocre old-school templates that read like they were written in 1970's for government or the pulp and paper industry. We offer one version of each template – the best one.

instant Staff Training ▼

Your manager training and orientation is done! Easily create self-serve HR for your staff, managers and HR. Includes an orientation manual with a menu of 150 topics
Your job gets more interesting. With documented processes in place, your managers will actually have the tools to execute on transactional HR leaving you with more time to execute on projects.
Those endless questions will stop. You can now point staff and managers to HR resources and step-by-step procedures. Plus every form, letter, and spreadsheet comes with an instructions document.
Your staff will actually read your HR documents. Your manager and staff guides are written in plain English, for today's workforce so they're easy to read and follow.
Get additional HR headcount. When your managers have the tools to manage their people, you'll spend less time doing their jobs for them. It's like getting additional HR headcount!

Create noticeably better HR ▼

Don't sweat the details. We've got you covered. For example, we've through of every detail so that your employee handbook includes features that solves common challenges. Your sign-off form is actually legally binding and your handbook is written so that it's applicable to both employees and non-employees.
You look good. You're providing your company with intuitive HR made for real people. It looks and feels (and is!) a cohesive set of documents, written in the same language
Instantly create HR processes. With our HR kits, you'll create step-by step instructions for staff, managers and HR.
Point-&-Click HR. Eliminate folder-view HR when you use our set-up Word documents to create user-friendly HR that looks and feels like a real intranet.

Peace of Mind ▼

ConnectsUs Resources are:

Reviewed by employment lawyers
Include COVID-19 resources
Updated to reflect changes in employment standards for 5 provinces.
Created by HR Consultants with over 60 years of combined experience

The Details

Premium HR Templates

Different & Better ▼

Download stand-alone HR templates from our collection of 22 HR Kits and 250 premium templates from our Resource Center.

Choose a template, customize it, save it on your server, and use it. When you download the next one, you'll notice it reads like it was created by the same writer, looks like it came from the same family of documents, and chances are it relates somehow to your first template. That's because all ConnectsUs templates were created to make sense together.

And, our forms, letters, and spreadsheets come with accompanying instruction documents for use by your staff. That's right — pre-written instructions on how to use forms, spreadsheets, etc. Think how much time that saves you in documenting procedures and training.

Say goodbye to the giant grab bags of so-so templates and hello to your new HR toolkit that features high-quality, well-written, coordinated templates, documents and tools. Arm yourself with a turnkey solution that delivers noticeably better HR for your business.

We've only scratched the surface.
Find out more about our templates.

Template Features

HR Template Samples

Preview a few of our documents. Each document comes with its own instructions page in the Resource Center to guide employers on the topic, how to use, how to format, and tips.

	Document	Instructions for Employer's Staff What is this?
Basic Employee Handbook The basics signed off by employees to protect the business.	Preview
Comprehensive Employee / Orientation Manual The basics *and* the details employees need to know about working at the company	Preview
Independent Contractor Agreement Be clear about the terms for independent contractors before they start.	Preview	Preview
Involuntary Termination Letters A series of letter templates to be used in various involuntary termination scenarios	preview
Justifying a New Headcount Form Key questions answered by hiring managers that create a business case to justify hiring additional staff.	preview	Preview
Manager Guide for Interviewing A guide that teaches managers how to conduct interviews. Written in plain English, easy-to-understand and read.	preview

HR Kits - Create HR Processes & Procedures

end-to-end HR ▼

You can absolutely use our templates to create stand-alone documents. Or you could...

Offer your staff & managers more

Your staff and managers are expecting more than just templates. They're looking to you to introduce best practice and to create HR procedures that seamlessly guide them through the process. Help them clarify who does what, when, and how, by implementing step-by-step processes, because HR isn't just for HR.

Training documents for staff

Imagine one of your hiring managers wants to open and advertise a new position. You could provide them with a set of fragmented documents saved in a folder on your server. Or, you could provide real value by connecting the dots and providing an intuitive package for staff that gives them step-by-step procedures and instant access to relevant forms and guides. When you assemble one of our HR Kits, that's the kind of value you give your staff.

Example

Most of our Kits include a Process Guide template that acts as a guide and training document for your staff or managers on that HR topic. For example, our Process Guide for Opening & Advertising a New Position template includes:

Step-by-step procedures on how to open and advertise a position. (Customize, augment,or delete steps as necessary to make the process work for your company).
Guidance on who does what, in what order, and how.
Links to all the forms, agreements, letters, manager guides, etc. related to that topic, so they can be instantly accessed by staff as they read the Process Guide.
Also links to Instruction Documents, so staff know how to fill out a form, letter, or spreadsheet.

Click to review Process Guide features

We've thought through the details so you don't have to. Each Kit represents one area of HR, and includes a family of coordinated documents to create clear processes and tools for that topic. It's easy and we show you how, step-by-step. See list of HR Topics (Kits)

Point & Click HR

Chances are you don't have an intranet or other technology in place to organize HR for staff. You can go one step further with your HR toolkit and provide your staff a similar HR experience that looks & feels like an intranet.

The best part is that you'll be using only Microsoft Word documents from your HR toolkit to create it.

Seeing it is getting it.
This is what we mean when we say Point & Click HR.

This can easily be your user-friendly HR

You won't believe how good your HR (and you!) will look by simply using the tools you're already familiar with. And you'll bypass the committees, training, and customization restrictions that come with an intranet. It's easy, and we'll show you how.

Terms of Use

In Plain English ▼

The rule book is clear and intuitive. Just good old fashioned common sense – and no small print.

Full License Agreement

The top 5 list ... in English please

Here's the English Version of the top 6 take-aways of our product license and terms of use, which we all sort of know already. Most of it is all pretty standard language that's included in the terms of use of any similar product. We're just translating the top 6 legalese sections into plain English so even our great-great-grandmothers can understand them.

1. "Consultants" can't buy ConnectsUs HR™ for Small Business

Consultants cannot purchase ConnectsUs HR™ for Small Business. They can only buy ConnectsUs HR™ for Consultants.

2. The resources can only be used by you - the purchaser - with one email address per account/subscription

3. You can't customize our products and resell them as your own

4. Subscriptions cannot be canceled or refunded before the end of the one-year expiration date.

Think of our products in the same way you would if the products were delivered by way of zip file download that included all our templates. You would not be able to return a digital-content product once it is downloaded to your computer. The ConnectsUs website provides examples and previews of all templates, detailed information about subscriptions, FAQ's, access to a trial account, as well as online chat functionality and phone/email support that can be used to clarify any questions that you may have prior to purchase. If you purchase a ConnectsUs HR™ subscription, you can cancel your subscription at any time but unfortunately, we strictly enforce our policy that a refund or credit cannot be processed once payment is made. This refund policy is standard procedure for any organization selling digital copyrighted content.

5. Limit on Damages

It's never happened in the 13 years we've been in business... but in the remote event that you would consider claiming damages, damages could not exceed the price you paid for the product. It's a standard clause in most, if not all licenses and terms of use. We're just not burying it in fine print.

If you have any questions, please contact us, and we would be happy to hear from you and help clarify.

$499 CAD

HR Toolkit for Small Business