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 Human Resources. 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 podcast exists. I’m Brad Voorhees, the founder of ScaleTx HR Advisory and the host of the HR For Small Business Podcast. Since 2020, I’ve helped small business leaders solve their biggest HR challenges, elevate their HR department and mentor and develop their junior HR staff, all without the cost or commitment of a full-time HR Director. In this podcast, I’ll give you practical, real-world HR guidance to help you build a stronger team, reduce risk, create a talent experience and scale an HR department that actually works for your small business. If you’re tired of playing the role of Human Resources Director and you want to stop reacting to HR problems and start leading through them—this is for you. Let’s elevate your HR.
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Episode #24
Episode 24 : Why CEOs Are Losing Confidence in Their HR Departments (And How to Win It Back)
Aug 20, 202613 min
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 access to compliance training? At SHRM's national conference this year, Johnny Taylor — the CEO of SHRM — told the room that in his personal conversations with Fortune 500 CEOs, roughly thirty percent of them told him they see little value in their HR function. Let that land. These are HR departments with real budgets, real headcount, real seats at the leadership table — and a third of the CEOs running those companies still aren't convinced HR is pulling its weight. Now if that confidence gap exists at that level, I promise you it exists in small businesses too — it just doesn't get said out loud in a keynote. It gets said quietly, in a CFO meeting, when someone asks why HR needs another tool, or why a project is taking so long, or why the HR generalist wasn't consulted on a decision that clearly involved people. Today I want to talk directly to the business owners and CFOs listening, and to the HR generalists too, because this cuts both ways. I want to talk about why that confidence erodes in the first place, and exactly what it takes to rebuild it — not through more meetings or more reporting, but through something HR in small businesses almost never has: senior mentorship. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ , to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team. Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io , and sign up!
Episode 23 : Why Corporate America Is Quietly Eliminating HR Departments — Is Yours Next? Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know.
Aug 17, 202612 min
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 anything strategic, or is it entirely consumed by the day-to-day queue? At this year's SHRM conference, the CEO of SHRM himself — the guy who runs the largest HR organization on the planet — stood on stage in front of twenty thousand HR professionals and told them their profession is facing what he called extinction. Not a slowdown. Not a rough quarter. Extinction. He said HR has, in his words, lost the plot on the future of work. And he shared a number that I haven't been able to stop thinking about since — roughly a third of the Fortune 500 CEOs he's personally talked to told him they see little value in their HR function. Now if that's happening at the Fortune 500 level, with fully staffed HR departments and seven-figure budgets, I want you to sit with what that actually means for a company your size — fifty, a hundred, two hundred employees — where HR might be one or two people doing everything from payroll to performance reviews to compliance, with no time left over to do anything that actually looks strategic. Today I want to break down the real reason companies are starting to eliminate HR — and it's not the reason most people assume. It's not that leadership doesn't value people. It's that HR, as it's currently built in most small businesses, was never architected to prove that value in the first place. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ , to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team. Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io , and sign up!
Episode 22 : Your CFO Is Gambling on Compliance, do you know what's at risk? Every Small Business Owner Needs This Answer.
Aug 13, 202611 min
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 finalized — or does it get made once, in isolation, and filed away? Here's the thing most business owners don't realize: your CFO is probably signing off on compliance decisions right now — leave policies, classification calls, handbook language — without the expertise to actually know if they're right. Not because they're careless. Because nobody ever told them that's what they were doing. Today I want to walk you through what that gamble actually looks like inside a real small business, including a mistake I made myself, early in my career, that I still think about. I'll show you exactly where compliance risk hides in a company your size, and what it actually takes to stop gambling with it. If you own a business between fifty and three hundred employees, this episode is built for you. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ , to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team. Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io , and sign up!
Episode 21 : Is Your Corporate Structure Setting Your HR Person Up to Fail? A Question Every CFO Should Ask.
Aug 10, 202614 min
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 in your company catch it before an attorney did? Today I want to talk about something most CFOs have never actually questioned: the org chart itself. Not the person in the HR seat — the structure around them. Because I've sat in that HR seat, reporting up to a CFO, completely underwater, and nobody in the building knew it but me. By the end of this episode, you're going to understand exactly why the structure that feels "normal" — HR reporting to Finance — is quietly setting your HR person up to fail, and what a better structure actually looks like, even if you're nowhere near ready to hire a full-time HR Director. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ , to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team. Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io , and sign up!
Episode 19 : The Recruiting Mistakes Small Businesses Make Without an HR Mentor
Aug 3, 20269 min
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 — until the day they think about nothing else. Here's what I mean: most small businesses I meet aren't out of compliance because they don't care. They're out of compliance because nobody in the building has the authority, the time, or the training to own it as a real function. It's everyone's job a little, which means it's nobody's job fully. And that gap doesn't announce itself. It compounds quietly, for months, sometimes years — until a complaint, an audit, or a lawsuit forces the issue. Today I want to talk about why compliance genuinely does not fix itself — no matter how capable your team is — when there's no senior HR leader steering it. And I'll walk you through exactly what that quiet compounding looks like in real companies. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ , to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team. Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io , and sign up!
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