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Leading with Compassion: The Key to Building a Loyal Team

April 7, 2025 by Kerry Flynn Barrett

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 […]

Filed Under: HR Stories Tagged With: burnout, chro, compassionate leadership, culture, emotional intelligence, employee relations, employee retention, labor laws, managing employees, mental health, personal development, productivity, professional growth, small business, wellness

HR Ethics: How to Protect Our People When Policy Puts Them at Risk

March 5, 2025 by Kerry Flynn Barrett

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 […]

Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: compassionate leadership, covid-19, culture, dei, diversity, employee benefits, employee relations, fmla, labor laws, politics, small business, workplace conflict

Time for a Strategic Goal Makeover: Continue, Do More, Start, Stop

January 15, 2025 by Kerry Flynn Barrett

Business Goal-Setting Framework: Continue, Do More, Start, Stop

It’s that time of year when New Year’s resolutions start to fade — but your business goals don’t have to follow suit. Now’s the perfect moment to reassess and refocus. And if this all feels like déjà vu, it might be time to try a fresh approach: Continue, Do More, Start, Stop. Over the past […]

Filed Under: HR Strategies Tagged With: career development, covid-19, fractional hr, leadership development, personal development, productivity, professional growth, professionalism, small business, workforce planning

The Stress of Scaling: How a fractional HR person can solve problems and streamline growth

July 1, 2024 by Kerry Flynn Barrett

Understanding and navigating the HR needs of your business can be challenging, especially for growing companies and new startups. There is a varied list of roles and responsibilities that a company’s HR team or a fractional HR person must be able to handle, from navigating complex, constantly-changing labor regulations to designing effective workplace policies to […]

Filed Under: HR Stories Tagged With: chro, employee relations, fmla, fractional hr, hiring employees, labor laws, managing employees, small business, workforce planning

How do you find the right HR solution? Be ready, willing, and able.

January 23, 2020 by Kerry Flynn Barrett

How do you know if your company needs an HR solution? Here’s a simple test we use: Is your company ready, willing and able to make necessary changes?

Filed Under: HR Stories Tagged With: hiring employees, open enrollment, processing paperwork, small business

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