Every so often, something happens in your career that you instantly know will stay with you forever. As someone who coaches leading with compassion as a core principle, you experience one of those rare experiences that doesn’t just mark your professional identity; it validates who you are and quietly reveals the kind of leader you’ve become. One […]
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HR Ethics: How to Protect Our People When Policy Puts Them at Risk
In the early stages of this new administration, we’ve seen a major shift in the HR world—with policies that are changing some fundamental human rights beliefs no matter where your party affiliation falls. We have to acknowledge the reality: politics has entered the HR conversation in a way that we have never seen before. As Fractional […]
It’s HR Hell Month: 6 Ways to Survive the Holiday Season with Your Sanity Intact
If you’re in human resources, you already know… December is HR Hell Month! A plethora of hard deadlines like payroll reconciliation, helping employees understand Open Enrollment, ensuring FSA funds and remaining benefits are used up, performance reviews, and processing year-end bonuses are all annual requirements on your list. Tack on a variety of arbitrary deadlines […]
Leadership Through Support: Unifying a Divided Workforce
We’ve officially entered the holiday season! Hopefully, you made it through Thanksgiving without the dinner table doubling as a political roundtable. But as we turn our attention to the new year, most agree that those political differences are here to stay. So, how are we supposed to keep the peace in a divided workforce? The […]
Taking off the mask: Embracing authenticity is scary but essential
For many, Halloween is an excuse to show off their creativity, to revisit childhood for a day, or to just wear a costume for the fun of it. Others use Halloween to reveal hidden parts of their subverted personalities — a dark side, a playful side, or a version of themselves that others rarely see. […]
HR is Broken: DEI’s been axed… and that’s just the beginning
I hate to break it to you, but HR is typically one of the least popular departments in any large organization. Many employees think HR is broken, who see it as an overly bureaucratic source of unnecessary rules and paperwork. HR is also viewed as the gatekeeper of benefits and as the corporate grim reaper […]
