HR Office Hours

Melanie Silva shares with us about the importance of employee engagement through community involvement, charitable giving and giving circles as one option, and shared purpose through dedicating our time, treasure, and talent in our community. We can go beyond pizza parties and gold watches in showing our appreciation to employees and we can definitely start by asking! Connect with Melanie Silva: L...

Cindy Lynch, Founder & Senior Partner at Six20 Partners (six20partners.com) shares her leadership insights. We discuss the importance of setting expectations, clarity in conversations, and the sacredness of one on ones. You can connect with Cindy on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/cindymlynch

Meredyth Ring of Guiding Light Leadership shares insightful facts, tips, and best practices about leadership and talent development. Connect with Meredyth: https://www.guidinglightleadership.com/ Book mentioned in podcast: Resilience That Works: Eight Practices for Leadership and Life https://shop.ccl.org/usa/resilience-that-works.html

Published author Krantzsy Boursiquot shares perspectives on the traditional 9 to 5 as a means to an end, creativity, specifically poetry, as a way to combat burnout, and making our stories epic.

In this episode, Maddie Hollis and guest Chris Adamson discuss their shared experiences leading Human Resources in rural, smaller communities. They reminisce on the unique challenges and fond times connecting and growing in a small community present.

In this episode, Keller Williams Market Center Administrator Kassandra Stephens shares valuable insights and lessons about work community done right, the best kind of desserts auctions, and establishing appropriate training and reporting processes.

In this episode, earlish career chemical engineer Ben Cruz shares his thoughts on integrating as a new member of a work team, career wins and disappointments, and funny moments so far.

In this episode, we discuss whether middle management is dead, if HR is your friend, a ridiculous (to us) employee relations investigations, and give props to managers who mentored us. Articles we read for reference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracylawrence/2025/04/08/burnout-by-design-how-cutting-middle-management-affects-company-culture/ https://www.fastcompany.com/91377552/middle-management-i...

From job hugging to AI aiding in performance management, we tackle the changing landscape of workplace issues. There’s a lot packed in this episode, but never in an ish sandwich!

In this episode, we discuss the impact of outside behavior in the workplace, the dreaded “ish sandwich “, and almost getting kicked out of the Friday Bagel Club.