by Briana Peterson | Mar 16, 2023 | Coaching, Communication, employee engagement, Featured, performance management
By: Briana Peterson, SHRM-SCP When’s the last time you faced a moment of uncertainty and resorted to YouTube tutorials, or as I like to call it “YouTube University” to learn how to DIY pretty much anything? Then the lightbulb goes off and you realize that sometimes...
by Briana Peterson | Mar 2, 2023 | Communication, Company Culture, employee appreciation, Values
By: Briana Peterson, SHRM-SCP Tomorrow is Employee Appreciation Day, and I know many of us truly appreciate our fellow employees, but do they know it? Here’s a statistic I picked up from Inc. Magazine recently: according to a 2023 survey by Workhuman, a global...
by Caroline | Jul 28, 2020 | Communication, Company Building, Company Culture, Leadership
Unprecedented, once in a lifetime, and the new normal are words and phrases surveyed Twitter users recently told Dictionary.com they never wanted to hear or read again. Why? I suspect it is because we have repeatedly used them in response to the past 5 months. We are...
by Caroline | Jun 10, 2020 | Communication, Company Culture, diversity and inclusion, Employee Empowerment, Leadership
First, I want to acknowledge that I haven’t written a blog in three months due to the roller coaster that has been 2020. I am back from this hiatus and I am starting by addressing the topic that is facing leaders across the country. Whether you are a leader at your...
by Caroline | Feb 6, 2020 | Communication, Company Culture, Featured, Leadership
You rock. My “go-to” words of affirmation for my fellow HR consultants. This is one of my favorite love languages: Words of Affirmation. So, what is it to affirm others? After a super quick online search, I found two meanings: To state as a...
by Caroline | Jul 18, 2019 | Coaching, Communication, Company Culture, Leadership
One thing many managers may not appreciate about being a manager is the necessity of having icky conversations. What is an icky conversation? It might be telling the associate, driving with you to the sales call, that his breath will be a problem in the client...
