It’s International Women’s Day! Is Your CEO Female? #ReferHer...
6% of CEOs in the S&P 100 are female. 50.8% of the population is female. I’m not super at math, but that seems like a disconnect, right? Today is International Women’s Day and a young lady (Tatiana...
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Career Confessions from Gen Z: Texas Tops List for Women Entrepreneurship!!
Did you know that, currently, there are more CEOs named “John” than all women CEOs combined? But fear not! There is hope on the horizon. Texas has recently been named the best state for women...
View ArticleAre you ‘Manager Shaming’? #WorkHuman
Do you know what’s wrong with companies and organizations? I know the answer because I go to a lot of conferences and listen to a lot of speakers. All of them will tell you exactly what’s wrong with...
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Career Confessions of Gen Z | The Power of Seeing – B-roll!
Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me on this Gen Z journey. In the last episode, I talked about what verbal and spoken content can do for your recruiting methods, but I think it’s just one side of...
View ArticleNo, really, just keep being wrong!
I was with some HR Pros recently and one of them shared a standard HR axiom about what we do as HR Pros in the vain of maintaining consistency. If we are wrong in the beginning then we just keep being...
View ArticleShould You Put a Rank and File Employee on Your Board?
Most boards of companies are made up of current company executives and/or executives from other companies are former executives from other companies. Almost never will you find a “regular Joe” on the...
View ArticleIf Your Company has a Chief Happiness Officer you Should Rethink Your Career...
In the past three weeks, I’ve been pitched by some well-meaning PR person about a story on how Google, Salesforce, Zappos, Airbnb, etc., have “Chief Happiness Officers” and how important they are to...
View ArticleLeadership Isn’t Raised on Promises
I’ve had a lot of conversations with c-suite leaders recently who are concerned they do not have their next generation of leaders on their team. Let’s be clear, they have people on their team, but they...
View ArticleThe First Question Every Leader Needs to Ask Themselves!
I’ve been blogging now for ten years. Writing every day for eight years. If you go around writing and telling people you know something about something, guess what? They’re going to ask you to tell...
View ArticleWhat if you just hired without interviewing?
I have this idea floating around in my head that there is this line. The line is where information about a candidate begins to make us less efficient in hiring. Could be too much information or too...
View ArticleWho has been your biggest influence in your life?
Great personal story to share today of a very cool interaction that happened this week. So, if you’re reading this blog post you’ve by now guessed that I write a bit. This all started ten years ago and...
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You Can’t Teach Your Employees to be Human! #Transform
You might have seen this in the news a few weeks back. Mom and Dad take their Autistic son to a Universal Theme Park in Orlando. The son is over the top excited for the Spiderman ride, and Murphy’s Law...
View ArticleThe First Gay Person I Ever Met. #Pride
June was Pride month and as it wrapped up on Sunday I was loving all the pictures on my social feeds from New York and really all over the world. It really made me think about why I’m an Ally for this...
View ArticleIf Someone Apologizes for Something, You Should Accept it.
Stuff happens. We make bad decisions. We do stupid stuff. Sometimes it all ends with us having to apologize for being dumb or just not thinking straight at that moment. So, we apologize. For a while...
View ArticleDisruptHR Detroit 3.0 Speaker Applications Now Being Accepted!
For those who don’t know, I’m involved with DisruptHR Detroit with an amazing team of HR pros and leaders, and we are putting on our 3rd event on Thursday, September 19th at 6 pm. Great DisruptHR...
View ArticleThe Employee Walk of Shame
I’ve lost jobs and I’ve called old employers to see if they would want to hire me back. I’ve usually gotten a response that sounded something like, “Oh, boy would we want you back but we just don’t...
View ArticleWant to build a community?
I get asked quite often by folks who want to build a community and/or are already starting a community to be apart of their community. My first question is always, “Why do you want to build this...
View ArticleBad Hires Worse!
If I could take all of my life, leadership and HR education and boil it down to this one piece of advice, it would be this: Bad Hires Worse. In HR we love to talk about our hiring and screening...
View ArticleCan we stop using the phrase “Top Talent”!?
Rant warning! Proceed with caution! First off the vast majority of us wouldn’t know top talent for a specific position if it came up and slapped us in the face. What we know are people/candidates that...
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College Students: Are you adding your side-hustle to your resume!?
I got killed a few weeks ago by some trolls on Twitter over posting this tweet: I get that many people need to work side hustles to make ends meet in today’s world. I wasn’t talking about these folks...
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