Work-from-Home Wellness Bingo is a fun way to interact with your remote team! Download your copy of WFH Wellness Bingo Here.

With many employers planning to return employees to the office, it’s important to set up an onboarding and communication strategy to ensure a smooth employee transition back to the office. Here are my recommended best practices for returning furloughed employees to work.

With stay-at-home orders being lifted in several states and with many employers preparing for what's next, one of the questions I'm hearing from both employees and employers is "what if the employee doesn't want to return to the office after working from home?" Here are best practices for working through this complex situation.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, many employers are tasked with quickly setting up a compliant work-from-home program. Here are five proven steps to quickly set up your work-from-home program. *Download the Free E-Guide, “How to Write a Compliant Work-from-Home Policy.”

In this video I talk about 3 Key Leadership Strategies you must use to make sure you are laying employees off in a respectful way. This video includes tips for communication and decision-making strategies as well as what to include in your Employee Layoff Packet.

Feeling lonely while working from home can be a challenge, but thanks to technology, growing communities who work from home, and with some forethought and planning, there are a lot of ways to stay connected while working from home.

When I think back to all of the inspirational leaders I’ve worked for, they are very different people in terms of age, gender, socioeconomic background, education level, communication style, and personality. In fact, on a personal level, they are more different than they are similar. However, each one of them embodied these same characteristics.

It sounds so simple but applying a basic “customer service mindset” to the company’s recruitment process is one of the most effective ways to attract quality employees. By using a “customer service mindset” the company effectively provides a quality recruitment “service” to applicants (aka customers). The goal is to establish a quality customer experience in order to attract and retain the most qualified employees.

A strong recruitment and retention strategy considers both hiring outside of the company as well as inside the company. Here are 7 proven strategies for how to create a “Promotion-from-Within” workplace culture.

Do you remember your first leadership position? Like me, I bet you were excited and nervous all at once. I knew I was meant to help others and I felt that a leadership position gave me the best opportunity to do that. However, I needed this one key thing in order to be successful….

The modern-day employee handbook no longer has to be a dry, boring document that no one wants to read. In addition to mitigating liability, a well-written handbook is an effective tool for establishing your employer brand and creating a guide for employees to successfully navigate their careers within your organization.

Many employers are switching from traditional, behavioral interviewing styles to a more modern approach: Conversational interviewing. Here’s how to do it.

Networking is one of the BEST strategies for finding your next job. And, LinkedIn is a POWERFUL online networking tool. Here are my top 5 tips for using LinkedIn to build your network and help you find your next job.

A good personality assessment, along with a high-impact facilitated discussion, is my favorite team building activity of all time. Read this for strategies on how to effectively team-build using personality assessments. Plus, I include a list of my favorite, low-cost assessments

Conducting pre-screening interviews with your top job applicants via phone or video prior to an in-person interview will save you time. Read this for guidance on how to conduct an effective pre-screening interviw. Plus, download a free checklist that includes all of the information to cover and questions to ask job applicants when conducing a pre-screening interview.

Creating a fair, market-based pay system is challenging in any industry. Creating it in the public sector is uniquely challenging. Read this for practical solutions to designing public sector pay systems.

As an HR professional and Recruiter, I’ve reviewed thousands of resumes and hired hundreds of people over my career. Here are my top 3 tips to make your resume stand out to recruiters and hiring managers.

As a long-time HR leader and recruiter, having hired 100s of people over my career, this is the number one most important trait I look for.

In this blog post, I talk about why traditional annual performance reviews are problematic plus a free checklist on how to have effective performance “check-in” discussions with your employees.

I was recently asked how nonprofit/social services leaders can effectively address employee burnout. Here are the strategies I’ve seen work best.