Tag: PHR

4 Steps to Get Your Staff Ready for Coaching

A coaching program is just like any other initiative—you can’t just jump in feet first without preparing your staff beforehand. To get your staff ready for coaching, here are four key steps from Dr. Robert P. Hewes, who is senior partner at Camden Consulting Group, a provider of integrated talent management solutions for organizational and […]

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Embrace Your Inner Whistleblower! A Strategy for Avoiding Retaliation Claims

There’s a huge divide between the whistleblower’s view of a situation and the legal analyst’s view, says attorney Brad Cave of Holland & Hart LLP in Cheyenne, Wyoming—and editor of Wyoming Employment Law Letter. If employers can “put on the whistleblower’s hat,” he says, they may be able to significantly reduce the risk of a […]

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Unlimited Vacation Time—California Here We Come!

Should you consider this Silicon Valley trend that’s spreading across the United States? Attorney Susan Fentin, a partner with Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., in Springfield, Massachusetts, offered her take on unlimited vacation at BLR’s Advanced Employment Issues Symposium, held recently in Las Vegas.

HR Works Podcast: How Does an HR Department of One Support Strategic Goals?

How can an HR department of one support their organization’s strategic goals while keeping up with the administrative functions and day-to-day activities? Our guest in this episode of HR Works, Diane Breeding, PHR, SHRM-CP, HR Manager for Edwards Moving & Rigging (KY), does just that—and she gladly shares her experiences to inspire other human resources […]

HR Works Podcast Launches

by Steve Bruce and Jen Carsen BLR’s new podcast, HR Works, provides clear, relevant, actionable information on topics that matter to HR professionals. When you’re armed with best practices, plus the knowledge to keep your organization in compliance, HR works!

The 9 Key Skills of HR Management

Today and tomorrow we revisit the most popular article of our sister publication, the HR Daily Advisor, in which Jay Schleifer and Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR, present nine essential skills of human resource (HR) management. Which of these skills do you already have, and in which areas could you use some training?

Talent and Performance Management—What’s Really Happening?

By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Editor, HR Daily Advisor What’s happening with talent and performance management in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out! Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers […]