The Simplicity of Diversity
If I had a dollar for every person that has attended a Diversity or Unconscious Bias webinar, class, zoom call, TED Talk, or podcast in the last couple of years, I wouldn’t be writing about the topic. Instead, I’d be hanging out with the idle rich! That said, with so...
Dear Abby
In today’s Dear Abby column, the writer asked for advice about leaving her employer. The employer in her opinion hasn’t cared about keeping employees safe and now she has a negative opinion of the owner. Because of this, she views the owner as greedy and non-caring...
The Talent Bench
When I think of the talent bench, I think of a sports team with the next round of players waiting there dressed for the game and ready to jump in and play. Sometimes teams have really great players on those benches and sometimes not so much. In business, we need at a...
A Day of Remembrance
Dr. King penned so many of my favorite quotes, “the ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people” and “everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” By far my favorite of all of his quotes...
FMLA/ADAAA
I find that even when I try to turn off my brain, HR still seems to creep in. I was watching TV last Friday, and enjoying a great show, Blue Bloods, when the episode turned to the topic of disabilities in the workplace. A detective became disabled and was in a...
Resiliency
Resiliency. This is our word, fellow HR’ers. We’ve seen it all. We’ve heard it all. And last year, we pretty much did it all. And yet, here we are in the new year. We’re not just surviving – we are thriving. You might be snickering at that “not just surviving”...
Minimum Wage Increases
Many employers around the country already stressed with the challenges of 2020 are now facing minimum wage changes that will radically change their business. In this holiday season, changing minimum wage in a way affects the “least of these”. As we think about the...
Reflections on Veteran’s Day
I may be a bit old fashioned, but I like patriotic stuff. I put up our flag on the front of the house every day when I was a kid. In college, I put up the flag and took it down each day at the dorm. Here we are on another Veteran’s Day – a day of observance for...