Practical advice for mid-level HR professionals navigating real workplace challenges. Weekly interviews with experts who deliver solutions and insights you can actually use.
Latest episodes
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18 min
Workplace Investigation: When Someone Lies
False allegations in workplace investigations are somewhat rare. Or are they? HR professionals need to know how to recognize and handle a bad faith complaint when one comes up. Bob…
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21 min
Stay Interviews That Improve Retention
Stay interviews are not just to keep employees who are thinking about leaving. They help HR and leaders gather employee insights to build a better organization. Juli Prizant, found…
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28 min
Compensation Frameworks
Building an effective compensation framework is essential for creating fair compensation systems, having something defensible and sustainable, meeting pay transparency requirements…
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24 min
Systems Thinking in HR
HR has a a lot of processes. Together they make systems. Each program must connect directly back to core business goals and the business strategy. Former VP of HR Jim Utley explain…
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24 min
Organizational Conflict: You Don't Have to Terminate or Performance Manage
Conflict resolution is the option most organizations skip when two employees stop being able to work together. Chartered mediator Michelle Phaneuf explains how facilitated conversa…
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16 min
Independent Contractor vs Employee Legal Guide
Independent contractors are easier than employees right? Flexibility, less risk. So many employers create that contract AND unknowingly create legal, financial, and tax liabilities…
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14 min
HR Strategy and Business Strategy
Most HR strategy fails because HR confuses their programs with actual business impact. In this conversation, Ranya Nehmeh, founder of Elevare HR Advisory and former HR leader at th…
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26 min
Rethinking Work Design with AI
Job analysis provides the foundational framework needed for many activities of HR. It also will help you understand work and adapt your workforce as artificial intelligence reshape…
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33 min
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in HR
Going into a presentation and feeling terrible? Watch this. You can do it AND do a good job. Building workplace confidence and executive communication skills is essential for drivi…
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30 min
Achieve Psychological Safety
There are specific and tangible ways to build psychological safety on teams and help your clients do it too. Leadership consultants Karolin Helbig and Minette Norman share five pra…
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15 min
You Need an HR Strategy not an Operating Plan
You think you have an HR strategy but you don't. Because strategy is not a list of programs. You have a strategy when you create something aimed at concrete business outcomes like…
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27 min
Stop Blaming an Individual
HR is failing when we look at problems narrowly: accepting a manager's convenient opinion that the employee is the problem. This episode looks at how human resources professionals…
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27 min
Five External Strategic Pillars That HR Leaders Must Consider
Most of us spend our days heads-down focusing on our immediate work - compensation, hiring, performance management, employee issues... But HR leaders need to look up - and out. To…
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11 min
Managing Poor Employee Performance
Performance management conversations can be stressful. This video should help. If you are nervous about it, you have probably been avoiding it and avoidance will not solve the prob…
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26 min
HR Needs Support - Addressing our Wellbeing
Research reveals a worrying trend regarding the wellness of HR. While HR professionals are tasked with managing company culture and supporting workforce wellness, the vast majority…
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21 min
How to Build a People-Focused Culture
Building a positive work environment requires more than just corporate perks or collaboration values on a wall. Josh Block, President of Block Imaging, joins the show to discuss ho…
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16 min
Understanding Unilateral Employment Changes
Constructive dismissal is an often-discussed but rarely-realized part of employment law where fundamental changes to a role can lead to significant employer liability. This episode…
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27 min
The Reality of Workplace AI Deployment
Implementing AI is different than other types of software. Globalization Partners (G-P) Head of HR Laura Maffucci shares her lessons from navigating an AI mandate, handling employe…
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13 min
Managing Problem Workplace Conduct
Implementing a clear progressive discipline policy ensures that your organization handles employee performance issues fairly and legally. This episode covers this essential HR topi…
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27 min
Navigating Canadian Severance and Notice
Calculating severance pay in Canada requires understanding the difference between statutory minimums and common law reasonable notice. In this episode, employment lawyer Brady Farm…