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  • Employee Communications: Stop Emailing Your Employees

    Employee communications are dominated by email According to a recent survey, up to 28% of our time is spent creating, reading, and replying to emails at work. In the average workweek that’s about 11 hours of time that you won’t get back, and we do that every single week. There’s something else I’d like you to…

  • How to Learn HR for Free: A Practical Guide

    Update: I published a newer version of this. You can find it here: 40+ Free HR Training Sources —— Recently on LinkedIn I saw someone asking how to learn HR. Specifically he was trying to learn compensation when he didn’t have a background/foundation in the topic. The people in the comments made some good suggestions,…

  • Pros and Cons of the HR Business Partner Structure

    I had a question come in that I thought would be good to get some feedback from you guys on. She asked: Do you know of any current companies that have an HR business partner model (healthcare would be ideal….but I will take any)? I have to do research on 3 different businesses for a project.…

  • Running, Calories, and Manager Communication

    If you’ve followed for a while you know I enjoy running (I’m on MapMyRun, if you’d like to connect!) I’m also a bit of a nutrition nut due to a high school stint in wrestling, several years of running marathon distances and longer, and generally being a nerd. One thing that I have learned over…

  • HR Project Management: The Ultimate Guide

    HR Project Management Skills are Powerful Tools–Do You Have Them? When you look at a list of key HR competencies, one thing that often is lacking is a good set of project management skills. While it’s easy to try and segment the human resources profession away from the project manager role, I see it as…

  • How to Avoid Accidentally Sending Emails

    Oh. No. Did I really just send that? Let me check my sent items. Yes, I did. Aaaggghhhhhh. Maybe they won’t see it. Who am I kidding? They are looking at it right now. Sigh. I may be the only person who accidentally sends emails on a regular basis, but in case I’m not, I…

  • I Spent Last Week in Florida, And…

    I spent last week at the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Conference, and it was an incredible event. Yes, I’d say that even if I wasn’t working for Brandon Hall Group. :-) I wanted to take time today to share a brief summary so you can get a sense of what was discussed, since most of…