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College-Recruitment Strategies
March 2022’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which discusses how a successful college-recruitment strategy can benefit your business. No one should have hired me out of college, but… …they did, and the sun still rose the next morning. Someone took a chance on polishing me. In fact, […]
Rally With the Power of RE
December 2021’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which discusses how the power of RE—REvise, REinvent, and REdo—can make us stronger. Rally With the Power of RE You don’t always get it right the first time or the second time! A stumble and fall doesn’t have to keep […]
Lessons Learned From a Year On the Couch
June 2021’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which considers the lessons we learned about professional success and our changed workplace during this unexpected year at home. Lessons Learned From a Year on the Couch This past year was one of listening. Pivoting. Adapting. Evolving. Even fumbling at […]
How I Learned to Stop Counting Nose Hairs and Behave Myself on Zoom
November 2020’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which shares how we learned (the hard way?) to make our best impression on Zoom. Jocelyn Schamber of Fuzzy Red Pen Copywriting guests. How I Learned to Stop Counting Nose Hairs and Behave Myself on Zoom We are still learning Zoom, big […]
Is Work-Life Balance a Circus?
August 2020’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which shares how to take control of the ring when work-life becomes a circus. When Work-Life Balance Is a Circus, Be the Ringmaster Just like that, life became a juggling act on a burning tightrope over an alligator pit in a […]
Transition From Teammate to Team Leader
January 2020’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which teaches newly promoted supervisors to become effective leaders of their former peers. “I Miss My Work Friends”: The Transition from Teammate to Team Leader You made it! Getting that promotion has made you the leader of a team—a team that […]
Mentoring: You’re Not Perfect. Now What?
December 2019’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which is all about how to become the kind of mentee who can catch and keep a great mentor. Tough Love: You’re not perfect. Now what?! Have you achieved perfection? Nope, none of us has! That means there is always something to […]
Quick! Schedule a doctor’s appointment for 1:30—Bob is having a meeting!
September 2019’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which is all about bad meetings and how to keep people from calling out sick to yours. Jocelyn Schamber of Fuzzy Red Pen Copywriting guests. Quick! Schedule a doctor’s appointment for 1:30—Bob is having a meeting! Is a mysterious illness racing through the […]
Who Knew Mom Was a Business Mogul?
June 2019’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which shares how Mom’s “free” advice was actually amazing business direction in disguise. Who Knew Mom Was a Business Mogul? All that free advice, and, well, nagging, you got growing up—Mom was only trying to help you be your best. Now you’re […]
Hey Bob, your interview candidate is sprinting to their car!
March 2019’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which explores common interview questions that hurt more than help the hiring process. Hey Bob, your interview candidate is sprinting to their car! Popular interview questions aren’t necessarily good ones. They could even scare off top talent, because no one wants “stressed,” […]
How to Add Confidence to Your Everyday Speech
December 2018’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which explores words that undermine your confidence and credibility in day-to-day business. Do you think perhaps maybe possibly we could help you sound a little more confident? by Kathi Guiney, GPHR, SPHR, SCP, President, YES! Your Human Resources Solution & Jocelyn Schamber, […]
31 Flavors of Employee Recognition
September 2018’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! Your Human Resources Solution article, which discusses creative and delicious ways to recognize your employees’ good work. Just like at the ice cream parlor, employee recognition comes in many flavors, from most to least desirable. There’s recognition for good work (chocolate – yum!), not-so-good work (bubble […]
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The “better” way to conduct layoffs
Layoffs are hard on everyone. Even as business leaders and HR professionals, layoffs are one of the hardest things we have to do. Regrettably, many of us remember this from the all-too-recent pandemic layoffs. Layoffs are a reality we may soon face again as the threat of recession looms. And while we may not have […]
Resolve conflict like a champ
We’re hard-pressed to say conflict resolution is a fun or glamorous part of a Human Resources or leadership role, but it’s one of the most critical parts. How you mediate conflict impacts employee morale and retention, and also shows your leadership abilities and your willingness to tackle the tough stuff. Your conflict resolution skills can […]
Stop! and hire this candidate
It’s easy to criticize potential hires and spot reasons why we shouldn’t hire them. That one is too arrogant, that one lacks technical skills, and that one knows nothing about the company. Process of elimination, right? But too often we fail to recognize the positive reasons why we should hire someone. Positive flags can be […]
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