“So, tell me about John,” I asked, leaning back in my chair. The young man sitting across from me shifted nervously. “He’s… uh… a good guy?” I chuckled inwardly. Five years as an HR manager, and I’d heard it all. The vague platitudes, the hesitant pauses, the desperate hope that a simple “good guy” would […]
Picture this: Monday morning, and tension clings to the office environment. Two of your most valued employees, have a blazing dispute over a direction for a project. There is yelling, accusations, and one can almost visualize sparks fly. As an HR manager with five years’ worth of workplace conflicts under my belt, I have witnessed […]
Contrary to the popular saying, “It is better to know a little about everything than to know everything about something,” being great at one thing is better than being average at many things. In the field of Human Resources (HR), specialization is key to efficiency, expertise, and business success. Rather than generalizing across multiple HR […]
