Recruiting Should Be Covered In the Company Emergency Plan
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, companies are regularly faced with emergencies. For example, right now, where I live (Florida), it’s hurricane season. Companies might also be faced with workplace accidents or incidents of violence. They could also be faced with a viral video media crisis like two married executives being caught embracing on a jumbotron […]
Employee Health Care Benefits Changes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes On July 4, 2025, the President signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), also known as H.R.1. The bill has lots of things in it, but employers might not be aware that part of the bill impacts employee benefits. So regardless of any personal feelings about the bill, […]
Using Empathy Maps to Create a Better Employee Experience
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I’ve seen a few articles lately – and I’m sure you have too – about the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and empathy. The articles implying that with the increase in AI, there will be a decrease in empathy. Empathy is a very difficult topic. It’s defined as being able to […]
Bookmark This! The Performance Management Edition
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Performance is important – employee performance, manager performance, department performance, and organization performance. You get it. They’re all important. That’s why having a performance management strategy matters. In fact, not only is having a strategy essential but so is actually doing what’s in the strategy. It’s great to have a […]
When Firing Employees – Use Respect
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I came across an article on Salary.com titled “How You Fire Someone Matters” from friend and attorney Heather Bussing. It’s a great read and I hope you’ll check it out. The article talks about the company owning their part in the termination and considering severance as part of a package. […]
Use Peer-to-Peer Learning to Introduce Artificial Intelligence
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes We don’t talk about peer-to-peer learning enough. As a reminder, peer-to-peer learning is when employees help other employees learn. Peer-to-peer learning can be an effective way to introduce employees to new concepts and reinforce skills. It doesn’t take anything away from classroom learning, eLearning, or self-learning methods. Consider peer-to-peer learning as an extra […]
Keeping Up with Artificial Intelligence Law In the Workplace
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes We’ve spent a lot of time over the past year talking about artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve discussed having a strategy, setting goals, developing a policy and much more. I’m not really here to talk about that today. I will leave some links at the end of this article as a […]
How to Quickly Find Out When HR and Employment Laws Change
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Poster Guard® Compliance Protection Service, a division of HRdirect, and the leading labor law poster service that gets your business up to date with all required federal, state and local labor law postings, and then keeps it that way — for an […]
5 Steps to Better Negotiating Today
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I recently published an article on the two different types of negotiation – positional and principled. If you haven’t seen it, I hope you’ll check it out. Within both types, there are steps … and they’re basically the same. Assessment. The first step is to understand the negotiation. What type of […]
Know Exactly What a Buzzword Means Before Using It
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes We probably all know that a buzzword is a word or phrase that has become fashionable by being used a lot, especially in the media. An example of a buzzword is “quiet quitting”, which I’m seeing in the news again and honestly, I’m not really sure why. But that’s not the […]