Category: General
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Young Professional Events for SHRM Chapters
Someone recently reached out to me about young professional events for SHRM chapters. A few years back I was tagged to be the Chair for the SHRM HR Young Professional Advisory Council, and I had a great time working with the rest of the YP team trying to find out ways to help chapters engage…
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9 Ways to Make HR More Credible
If there’s one thing that HR lacks in many organizations, it’s credibility. Who really listens to what you have to say? Do your managers, leadership team, and line staff have faith in your abilities to help lead the business, or do they see you as just another roadblock to getting work done every day? Here’s…
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Measuring Human Resources Isn’t the Goal
When we talk about metrics, analytics, and business intelligence, we forget that measuring human resources isn’t the goal. It’s an objective. Yes, we need to do it, but it isn’t the end of the process. At the end, after we’ve spent all the time and effort measuring human resources as best we can, all we…
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I Have a Strategy, No You Don’t (Book Review Video)
I Have a Strategy, No You Don’t by Howell J Malham, Jr. Recently I received this book to review. Honestly I picked it because of the title–it sounded unique and I was interested in checking it out. Once I got into the book (it’s a quick read), I was sucked into the funny dialogue and…
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Career Readiness Skills, Video Games, and ACT Scores
Video games are not a substitute for career readiness skills. They teach us nothing about hard work. They are not a magic tool to prepare the next generation to take the reigns in workplace leadership roles. Recently an international speaker, Mike Walsh, came to Huntsville to give a presentation. I didn’t see the presentation, but…
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How to Lay Off Employees
Last year I had to learn how to lay off employees. I learned the way many of us learn these things. By doing it. It wasn’t fun. It wasn’t exciting. But it got accomplished. Here’s what I learned about how to lay off employees from that experience. 5 tips for how to lay off employees…
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Hiring, Onboarding, Culture, and More on DriveThruHR
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with the great team over at DriveThruHR about some of the things that are “keeping me up at night,” so to speak. We discussed hypergrowth (how to prepare for 50% growth in less than a month), what it means to hire for culture fit, and more. It…