We’ve Made it!
Welcome to the second half of 2020! We made it. It’s all downhill from here…. Right? Okay, so maybe the phrase “What could possibly happen next?” has crept into your vocabulary once or twice, or “It can’t get any worse… can it?!” As I look back over the past six...
Say Something!
Many organizations have been criticized for their support of Black Lives Matter and other diversity related organizational statements. We as HR professionals must work on knowledge of the “real” truth of the state of diversity in our organizations. We need to look for...
Well, it’s about time.
For years HR folks have been caught between what we were legally required to do and what we should do. Like so many things in our profession, we were in the gray. Many business owners and HR folks looked at their EEO polices and were torn. Should we only protect the...
Stress and Our Workplace
Here we are nearly half way through the year with one crisis after another for HR professionals. We haven’t even begun the return to work and now we have the next crisis as the nation reacts to the death of George Floyd. My HR colleague went to a local national chain...
Return to Work Considerations – To Open or Not? That is the Question
Here we are. Working at home on another Friday. It’s hard to believe that it has been two months working this way. How do we reconcile the fact that two months ago we didn’t want employees working at home, because it wasn’t “productive”? We thought that employees...
Drama & Diversity: Accepting Differences in the Workplace
FREE WEBINAR How to Leverage Diversity in the Workplace Tuesay, November 12th. 2019 10:00 – 11:00 am EST REGISTER April is Celebrate Diversity Month! Instructor led training course with Vice President of Consulting, Megan Richardson- SPHR Tuesday, April 9th ,...
Why Should Small Business Owners Care About HR?
Sometimes when I tell people I have an HR consulting firm they automatically assume that we help companies find people a la staffing. While that is certainly an important part of human resources, it is a very small part of the HR function. Managing human resources is...
The 4 P’s in HR that Small Business Owners and Managers Must Know!
Small Business Owners and Managers are pulled in so many directions. Decisions that are related to employees can often be overwhelming. We frequently get calls to our Human Resources Helpline that center around employee situations that could become problems down the...