What Will It Take to Rebuild Western North Carolina?
What will it take to rebuild North Carolina? The answer and the timeframe are way longer than you think.
What’s the 2024 Cost of Living for Austin, TX, USA?
If you are living in the Austin, TX, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?
Leaders Directly Affect the Workplace Culture: How Are You Showing Up?
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.
Generative AI and Human Resources: Real-Life Examples for the Workplace
I use ChatGPT every day, AND I need to warn you before you go “all in” with AI & HR.
What’s the Cost of Living for Las Vegas, NV, USA?
If you are living in the Las Vegas, NV, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?
Allyship 101 – The Basics
Allyship spans across many groups and comes in many forms. Let’s take a minute to get grounded in the basics of allyship.
Pay Equity Phase Two: The Assessment
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.
Rural Workplaces Need Pay Equity, Too
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.
Eliminating the Sunday or Time Off Scaries
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.
Support Caregivers in the Workplace
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.
What Did the US Women’s Soccer Team Teach Us about Pay Equity?
Equal pay may be defined as everyone has the same opportunities and resources. Let’s use the USWNT to explore this distinction.
A Year with Audre Lorde
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.
Why Would People Work for Less Money?
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.
A $25 Million Dollar Surprise
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!
From Pandemic Healing to Body Liberation: A Consultant's 2023 Journey
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.
Unlocking Your Potential: A Skeptic's Journey with the iEQ9 Enneagram for Professionals
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 Budgeting: What You Need to Know
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 is August 26
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.
Navigating Change in Difficult Times
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?
The Loftis Partners Origin Story – Do You Know How We Began?
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.