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I was told this week my position is to be transitioned to Poland and part of my severance agreement is that I need to train my replacement (I’m an international/global benefits manager with more than 12 years of experience); anyway, I received my severance package along with a

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Are you using your time to be successful? Last night a friend sent me this video.

This talk was, overall, excellent, but this story really struck me as a small business owner:

Two men formed a partnership. They built a small shed beside a busy road.

Are you concerned that 2021 might be more difficult than 2020–the vaccine can make things more complicated for HR, not less. Join me for these upcoming webinars:

Thursday, January 14, 1:00 PM Eastern

 Monday, January 18, 3:00 PM Eastern

The post Upcoming Webinars: COVID-19 Vaccines, Testing, And

With more than half of New York restaurants hanging on a thread and depending on federal dollars to stay afloat, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on January 5 signed new legislation that effectively ends at-will employment for fast-food restaurants in New York City. The move, which goes into effect on

Businesses had many, many headaches in 2020–as did all their employees. From new laws to shutdowns, protests, and illness and death, every company and every employee had new challenges last year.

As such, your company adopted new policies. (With changing laws, you had to adopt at least some changes

The article we reference is here: What to Do If a Capitol Hill Rioter Also Happens to Be an Employee?

And the list of state laws is here: Retaliation for Political Activity

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I’m a procrastinator, through and through. My most significant feat as such was as an undergraduate student, when I went to the library at 6:00 pm to start research on a paper. But, I turned it in at 9:00 am the next morning and got an A—gold star for

This week’s protest, which led to an invasion of the US Capitol Building, was something that the world watched in horror. How much more horrifying would it be if you recognized someone climbing the Capitol wall or ripping something out of a congressional chamber–and that person was your employee?

I love performance appraisals. I hate performance appraisals. These two things actually fit perfectly well together, depending on my role in an organization.

As an employee, I find them tedious, and the feedback feels forced (because let’s face it, it often is forced). As a manager, I hate writing

Almost no one would admit to being a micromanager. They are just “detail-oriented” or focused on getting things “perfect.” While these phrases sound much better than “I like to nit-pick my employees’ work!” your employees see through it. 

Leadership coach and speaker Sarah Noll Wilson tweeted the following:

Tell me

What’s going to change for HR people when Biden takes over? What happens if Trump manages to get the 12th amendment invoked and pulls out a late win?

This is not a political post–we don’t do politics on the Real HR Show, but we do talk about how

There are very few people who begin and end their careers in one company. Most people move on after a time, or the company forces them to move on with an involuntary termination. People leaving organizations seems like a quite straightforward matter, but there is a lot to unpack

Managers often find it difficult to give clear, actionable feedback–especially when it’s negative. Almost everyone finds it difficult to take that feedback, but if you want to improve you need to listen. During the 2020 shutdowns, I managed to watch 16 seasons of Top Chef, and while my

We survived 2020! And I took real time off, which I haven’t done for all 2020. (I did keep reading things, just no work.) A bunch of stuff happened, though, so I wanted to catch you all up with some links:

From Jeff Nowak:

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