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Deborah Jeffries, SHRM-CP, PHR, CPC

Essential Skills: Inclusive Leadership

Zoom Virtual Event

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." --Robert Louis Stevenson Every day it matters what you do and how you do it - now more than ever intentionality matters! Inclusive leadership is critical to an organization’s success in attracting and retaining clients and employees alike. According […]

HR Lunch Bunch: Manage, Mentor, or Coach – Distinction Needed

Zoom Virtual Event

This month's discussion will focus on development ...and how we get there. Management? Mentoring? Coaching? Heck is there even a difference? We are sure you have a lot to say here and we want to hear it. We know that coaching and mentoring are the keys to a leader’s success and ability to have positive […]

Learning Burst: Retention and Retrieval Strategies

Zoom Virtual Event

Retrieval practices have emerged as essential tools for learners because they tap into our cognitive processes to enhance retention and long-term learning.  Retrieval practice can be thought of as a way to study material or a strategy in which we pull our knowledge “out” of our brains. In other words, we deliberately try to recall that […]

Essential Skills: Subtle Acts of Exclusion – Microaggressions

Zoom Virtual Event

Organizations provide a variety of DEI educational offerings to their staff. Employers would be wise to make sure they are covering training for all staff to include awareness of microaggressions (aka microindignities). These (often) subtle indignities affect your workforce health, morale, and productivity. They creep in and often can lie under the surface. Introducing compassion […]

HR Lunch Bunch: Boosting Employee Skills

Zoom Virtual Event

Regular improvement opportunities are a vital aspect of organizational wellness and growth. Regardless of your role with the organization, it's critical to understand the importance of employee development and the increasing investment and role employers will play. To remain competitive, offering your team members regular opportunities to improve their skills and advance their own professional […]

Learning Burst: Your Super Power is Attitude

Zoom Virtual Event

In 1952 Norman Vincent Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale realized that for every negative thought, we would need three positive thoughts (today it might be more than three). He knew that how we view life is how we do life. When we change our thoughts, we change everything. A positive attitude is […]

Essential Skills: Preventing a Toxic Workplace

Zoom Virtual Event

A toxic work culture can hold your organization back from achieving its goals. Not only can it lead to high rates of turnover and reduced employee productivity that hurts your bottom line, but it's a human-centered problem that can actively harm the people within your organization often characterized by high levels of stress, low morale, […]