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What will it take to rebuild North Carolina? The answer and the timeframe are way longer than you think.
If you are living in the Austin, TX, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?
Season 3 of The Bear highlights the dangers of isolation and control in leadership. Carmy’s personal struggles affect his ability to connect with his team, leading to disengagement.
If you are living in the Las Vegas, NV, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?
Allyship spans across many groups and comes in many forms. Let’s take a minute to get grounded in the basics of allyship.
You know about the importance of pay equity, especially right now. You’ve prepared for the pay equity journey ahead. Now what? It’s time to get into your data.
The pay equity journey happens in four phases: preparation, assessment, leadership buy-in, and implementation. In this chapter, I’m going to outline the preparation process that I used for our pay equity journey.
Do you work in an office culture that supports a single speed of work (on/off)? If so, then you need to develop your own approaches to taking time off. Here are some ways to slow your roll before and after time off for office workers.
April is National Care Worker recognition month. How many of your employees are also serving as caregivers? It's important to create inclusive practices for caregiving employees.
Equal pay may be defined as everyone has the same opportunities and resources. Let’s use the USWNT to explore this distinction.
Listening and reflection help us step out of consumption and sometimes extraction. These decolonizing practices may take many forms, and today I want to share one way that I’ve prioritized these practices in my own life.
Nonprofits have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mother worked as a teacher for a nonprofit school while I was growing up. My maternal grandparents, who also served as my caregivers, worked for a nonprofit religious group.
This true story is what started me on my career path and purpose with pay equity. Click here to sign up to receive more sneak peeks of my upcoming book about pay equity!
Reflection allows me to process past events and explore learnings below the surface. Here are my top 2023 reflections: I needed some COVID-19 pandemic healing, and I finally let go of my body shame. How does this relate to being a human resources consultant? Read on.
Explore a skeptical HR consultant's transformative journey with the iEQ9 Enneagram Assessment, challenging traditional views on personality assessments. Discover how this tool, designed for professionals, provided profound insights and prompted a mindset shift, unlocking personal potential and fostering self-awareness.
HR budgets are all the expenses related to employing people at your business. These budgets are typically planned at the annual level with adjustments (or forecasts) being made throughout the year. We are focusing here on the annual budgeting process. Let’s start with the key elements of the HR budget and a few questions to consider for each one.
Women’s Equality Day was created in 1971 and supported by Bella Abzug, a female representative from New York. The date selected – August 26 – aligns with the 1920 date for the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave “women” to the right to vote.
As a leader, we all have those months and seasons where the work is churn for us. What’s a leader to do with all this change?
Our firm started in August 2020 after years of dreaming. I always thought being an external HR consultant would be amazing, AND I didn’t have enough confidence in myself to make the leap from working inside a business to running my own business.
LGBTQ+ inclusion is more than knowing the acronym or wearing a Pride shirt. Building inclusion in the workplace can improve decision-making and innovation, increase satisfaction and retention, and strengthen your brand with customers.
I’m finding that many people have soaked up knowledge about diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, accessibility, and belonging. However, many of these people are not quite sure how to translate this profound knowledge into changed behaviors.
WNC Nonprofit Pathways offers broad programs across the region that include workshops and events to build skills. They also provide organization assessments at little to no cost for WNC nonprofits that strengthen organizations through targeted consulting around the nonprofit lifecycle.
Women’s Equal Pay Day will fall on March 14, 2023. This date signifies the current gender pay gap of 16%. This day is celebrated to show how much more women must work to earn as much pay as men. A gap of 16% may not seem like much, but I invite you to dig deeper into these numbers.
How we show up is tied to our business performance. We are shaped by each other and our experiences, which impacts how we show up in our relationships and our professional work. To say that we are successful purely by our own measures and intellect is a false narrative.
Those organizations who lightly address pay transparency with muddled salary ranges for open positions may abide by laws, but they are not building trust with candidates and employees. Pay transparency is a much bigger and more involved process.
We are circling the final days of 2022, and I am looking back at the year that has happened. We entered year three of a global pandemic, and personally we hit some big milestones in our house. Today I’m sharing items that don’t fall under certain categories like books or podcasts; these are the odds and ends that really impacted me this year.
I’ve read or listened to 51 books in 2022 (full list below). Sometimes I need to step out of the serious stuff and read a good fantasy story (Ex. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson) for a mind palate cleanse. Then I go right back to it. Typically, I choose audiobooks based on the narrator. What have been your favorites this year?
As many of you know, I’m a voracious reader and consumer of media because my inner nerd (aka Hermione Granger) loves rich mental stimulation. Therefore, I won’t bore you with every book, podcast episode, show, movie, report, or article that’s sent me into geek land. Today I’m starting with podcasts.
As the World cup begins and we all need some hope for the future, I want to highlight some leadership lessons from Ted Lasso. He is not a traditional leader in that he didn’t work his way up in the company to reach this status. He also doesn’t have identical relevant experience. And he is not from the home country of the organization. Ted Lasso has many obstacles to face from day one.