Minority-owned businesses
You are growing on revenue you earned, not money you raised, which means every dollar spent on training has to come back. It also means the compliance obligations arrived without an HR department to meet them.
What training is legally required for a small business in California?
Once you hit 5 employees, harassment prevention training is required every two years, one hour for employees and two hours for supervisors, under Government Code 12950.1. New hires must be trained within six months.
That is the floor, not the plan. The training that actually protects you is supervisor training on how to receive a complaint, because most exposure starts with a manager who did not know what to do with what they heard.
Is it cheaper to train my own supervisors?
Usually, once you are past two sessions a year. A two day train the trainer runs $7,500 here and leaves people who can run it again next year. Three outside sessions cost about the same and leave nothing.
If you run one session a year, buy the session. If you run three or more, build the capability.
We are growing fast and nothing is written down. Where do I start?
Write the job, not the culture. Document the five tasks a new person must do in week one, then build a ninety minute onboarding session around them.
Culture documents written at this stage get ignored. A week-one task list gets used the next Monday.
What I would do first
Meet the floor first
Required training handled properly, then everything else.
Supervisors are the exposure
Most legal risk starts with a manager who did not know the next step.
Write week one
Onboarding built on the five real tasks beats a culture deck every time.
Where to go next
Programs
Four live programs and private team sessions.
Pricing
Seats, private rates and the reduced rate for nonprofits, schools and public agencies.
Insights
Free articles on running live sessions.
Twenty minutes, no pitch.
Describe the room and the constraint. I will tell you what I would do, including when the answer is that you do not need me.