Don’t Miss These #SHRM17 Conference Sessions

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Its time to get excited because we are just days away from this year’s national SHRM conference– I’m furiously planning my sessions that I’ll be attending at upcoming #SHRM17! Its been tough to decide – the organizers have done a fabulous job of offering a ton of great sessions that are on topic/trend for this […]

My HR Conference Tips for Pregnant Mamas

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I’m SO excited to for the upcoming national SHRM conference coming up this year in Vegas! In 2015 I attended a national conference that was also in Las Vegas … and I was about 6 months pregnant. I knew that the conference experience would be “different” but I wasn’t sure how and, honestly, I didn’t […]

5 Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Internship Program

School’s out for summer and if you have a summer intern program your interns have probably been in place for a few weeks now. The dust has settled, they have been on-boarded and they are ready to get to work. Here are a few tips for you and your managers to help get the most […]

HR’s Number One Responsibility Is Creating an Effective LOA Program

2015 was quite the year, with many companies making some radical (in a totally positive and most awesome way) changes and additions to their leave programs. I get it, we can’t all be Vodafone, Netflix, Twitter, or Adobe when it comes to parental and other leave programs – but that doesn’t mean that you get […]

10 days of #HRGoodness

This year Jessica and I thought we would do something different and try to share in the community that we have created with what we’re calling #HRGoodness. We’d love to have you join in. These are the activities that we’ll be doing over the next 10 days and we invite you to join us. #HRGoodness […]

Tips to Evaluating Your Bereavement Policy

Like so many of you last week, I was so saddened to hear about Sheryl Sandberg’s sudden loss of her husband, David Goldberg. She returned to work this week 10 days after he passed away to a modified work schedule.  Sometimes its hard not to think about what “you” might do in that situation — […]