Tis’ the Season for Mental Health
It’s okay to be stressed about the many unknowns that we have in our lives today that may or may not have existed in 2019. It’s okay to take a mental health day and do nothing. It’s okay to tell others that we are having a hard time. As human resources professionals,...
Unconscious Bias: Not a Political Debate
We know, accept, and fight the effects of biases in the workplace, but what about in our personal lives? How about when it relates to one of the most sacred personal rights that we have? The right to vote. Now don’t panic! This is not going to turn into a political...
National Coming Out Day
Sunday marked the 32nd anniversary of National Coming Out Day. Although many members of the LGBTQ+ community may come out to their friends and family, this is often a more difficult conversation to have in the workplace. When you get to the center of it though, it...
Questioning Strategy in Response to Today’s Challenges
Oddly and evenly sadly, this is not new. The current events in America could be from the 1960’s; could be Rodney King in the 1990’s; could be from any decade in our 400-year history since Jamestown 1619. Happenings in the world that may not completely or immediately...
Clickbait and Critical Thinking
I admit. I fell for it. When I’m not working, not running around with baseball mom duties, or out laboring in my weed-infested flower beds (futile, by the way), I can be found hiding away on my phone checking social media. It’s my version of watching TV or...
We’ve Made it!
Welcome to the second half of 2020! We made it. It’s all downhill from here…. Right? Okay, so maybe the phrase “What could possibly happen next?” has crept into your vocabulary once or twice, or “It can’t get any worse… can it?!” As I look back over the past six...
Say Something!
Many organizations have been criticized for their support of Black Lives Matter and other diversity related organizational statements. We as HR professionals must work on knowledge of the “real” truth of the state of diversity in our organizations. We need to look for...
Well, it’s about time.
For years HR folks have been caught between what we were legally required to do and what we should do. Like so many things in our profession, we were in the gray. Many business owners and HR folks looked at their EEO polices and were torn. Should we only protect the...