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Tips to Lessen Holiday Stress at Work
Forget “peace on Earth”—the holiday season is stressful! How you can destress your employees.
Office Holiday Gift-Giving Etiquette
The holidays can be a sticky time of year, and not just from eating sugar cookies!
The Battle for the Iron Throne . . . Coming to a Cubicle Near You!
December 2016’s Orange County Business Journal features the latest YES! article, which compares office politics to Game of Thrones. Jocelyn Schamber of Fuzzy Red Pen Copywriting guests. Cersei Lannister said it best: “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.” It may often feel much the same at work. Whether you want to play […]
Holiday Hooky: Flu or Fake?
Tis the season for a curious correlation: Christmas music in the mall and employees calling in sick. After all, who doesn’t want more time off around the holidays? And people will fake sickness to get it—like the 9 percent who are decorating, the 76 percent who are spending time with loved ones, or the 12 […]
Employee Wellness Beats Holiday Love Handles
We don’t all plan to overeat on Thanksgiving. But between the cranberries, candied yams, and piles of stuffing, Thanksgiving dinner tends to loosen our belts a few notches. People typically put on 1–3 pounds in the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, in many cases permanently. So while we give ourselves the gift of […]
Why You Should Ask Weird Interview Questions
“You have one hundred people about to arrive for an event when someone spills an entire can of maroon paint across the main entrance. What do you do?” This was an actual question heard at a recent job interview. A little strange, right?
How to Masterfully Tell Job Candidates “No Thank You”
Let’s be real—recruitment is not a statistically great process. It’s great because at the end of a hiring process, we hiring managers and HR professionals get one shiny, happy candidate ready to bring skills and promise to our organization . . . and then we have to tell one hundred other candidates that their skills […]
The Four Hardest Human Resources Conversations
As Human Resources professionals, we are superheroes! We signed up to tackle some heavyweight tasks that impact our company and its precious human resources. We get to seek out fresh talent and develop a benefits package that encourages loyalty! We get to organize team-building events and lunchtime book clubs! But like all superhero work, it’s […]
Does Your Ideal Candidate Need a College Degree?
Key predictors of success that you should look for instead of a college degree.
Talking Politics at Work . . . and Then the Fight Broke Out
When emotions run high, it’s easy to land on the battlefield when you don’t mean to.
Three Ways to a More Efficient Workday
You can’t add hours to the day, but you can operate more efficiently within those hours.
Bosses: Is Your Behavior Making Your Employees Quit?
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Bosses don’t always realize how their behavior affects their employees.
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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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