Category: General
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HR Summer School 2024: 5 Years of Lifting Up the HR Community
This month is always an exciting one for me and the team. We’re gearing up for our major virtual event, HR Summer School, an event with millions of minutes watched since its launch in 2020. The HRSS experience is always a powerful one. It all started in 2020 when I landed in California for a…
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Why HR Should Consider the CEBS Employee Benefits Certification
“I also enjoy the face to face with employees. And I think I really have chosen this field of benefits, this discipline, because I want to help employees maximize the benefits that are offered to them.” Summer Martin, Human Resources Generalist, STRATA-G Solutions We’re Only Human — Episode 174 The episode features a conversation between…
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Unleashing the Power of Good Managers: Insights from CHRO Cheryl Gochis
“And someone says, ‘I don’t think management’s for me.’ Celebrate that! When somebody says that to you, you need to celebrate and say, ‘Great decision!’ As an individual contributor, you have joy in your job by being excellent, by being a subject matter expert.” Cheryl Gochis, Chief Human Resources Officer, Baylor University We’re Only…
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Learning in the Age of AI with JD Dillon
“My refrigerator broke one day and I didn’t call a repair person. I didn’t go to refrigerator repair school. I went to YouTube, found a person who had a similar problem, followed along, fixed the problem, moved on. And then we go to work and suddenly you can’t do that anymore.” JD Dillon, Chief Learning…
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Benefits Broker Turned HR Leader: How to Take Control of Employee Benefits
“I would be remiss to tell our employees ‘you have the power to question your doctors’ if I didn’t tell HR people ‘you have the power to question your consultants and brokers’ the exact same way.” Melissa Cassidy, Human Resources Leader, Valpak We’re Only Human — Episode 171 In this podcast episode, host Ben Eubanks…
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Can You Really Prove the Value of Learning and Training Activities?
“So when it comes to training and learning as a viable solution for helping people be the best that they can be in the roles that they serve, I believe that that’s always been important. We’ve just not always been able to illustrate impact in the past the way in which we’re able to now.…
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A Case Study in Hiring with Intentionality, Not by Accident
“So it’s really designed to be a two-way street and to create that conversation from the very, very beginning points. So we’re setting the expectations for what employment is going to be like, especially as a leader at our company.” Nicole Hirsch, Sr Recruiting Manager, Lattice We’re Only Human — Episode 169 Teaching hiring…