What Not To Do When Motivating Disengaged Employees

What Not To Do When Motivating Disengaged Employees I saw the most awkward thing the other day while shopping at a local big box store. It was Saturday afternoon, before Easter, and the store and the parking lot was BUSY. Starting out in retail, Saturday afternoons, let alone those before major holidays, are a no-no […]

Does Your Leave Policy Promote the Working Parent

Does Your Leave Policy Promote the Working Parent? While checking out some articles trending for International Women’s Day this past Sunday I came across this neat article in the Washington Post, “An unusual new policy for working mothers” in which they describe Vodafone Group’s new global maternity policy. In addition to 16 weeks of paid […]

Success HR Tech Implementation Starts With Knowing Requirements

This time of year, many of you may be working towards projects to implement some new HR tech. If you’re a larger firm, you may have already done the financial analysis and gotten approval to go ahead with the project — you may have even started to engage some vendors or talked to some peers […]

10 Reasons Why I Love Being an HR Professional

Someone recently asked me how I ended up in human resources and why I like it. I’ll save that story for another time but its no secret that HR choose me, not the other way around. It really gave me pause this week to think about why HR keeps me excited and engaged. I thought […]

3 Keys to Buidling Trust & Communication at Work

I once had a friend from grad school say to me, “You’re pretty cool .. even though you work in HR.” Stunned and confused, I replied, “Um… I’m not sure what that means.” He went on to say, “We’ll I don’t like HR people. I just don’t trust them … or anyone in management.”  All […]

I’m Now Offically a SHRM-CP! Now What?

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Like many of you, I have had my HRCI certification for some time and had been following the news and information related to the new SHRM-CP certifications very closely since the announcement mid 2014. As the information came out I was excited, curios, uncomfortable, understanding, and frustrated — sometimes all at the same time (hey, […]