Unconditional Love is Never Easy

Some of my friends have been asking for Scrubby updates. If you don’t know anything about my boo, Scrubby is my famous pee cat. He’s not a horrible monster, but rather, an OCD ginger cat who likes to pee on cat bedding (or other stupid shit around my house). I should own stock in Target’s…

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2015 Emerging HR Leaders Nomination

Let’s face it. There are a ton of people in HR leadership positions who probably shouldn’t be in those positions. Then there are awesome people. The people who deserve to get promoted. Like you. Or someone you know. I’m putting together a list of emerging HR leaders, and I wonder if you’d like to nominate…

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World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. You say — I don’t know anyone with HIV/AIDS. What does this have to do with human resources? Well, a lot. There are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S. It is estimated that almost one-fifth (18.1 %) of those people don’t know they are infected. Testing…

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HR Professionals on Twitter

I am not America’s HR lady. America’s HR lady is actually Robin Schooling. But one of the unique things about my company is that I offer HR for human resources professionals. From talking CEOs and CHROs off the ledge to working with learning teams to win the support of their colleagues, my job has evolved…

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SHRM Certification, SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP

Can someone in-the-know please answer my questions? 1. What’s the real difference between HRCI’s certification program and SHRM’s certification program? 2. Per the internet and life, a competency is a set of defined behaviors that provide a structured guide enabling the identification, evaluation and development of the behaviors in individual employees. Has the new SHRM…

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Management Gurus on Twitter

About a month ago, I had a conversation with Tim Sackett that went something like this. Laurie: You know Vala Afshar? Timmy: No, I mean, I guess. Laurie: I don’t think he is real. And I want to figure his posting strategy out. Timmy: I don’t see where you are going with this, Laur. Explain.…

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I Don’t Want This Guy Fired

It’s a beautiful day. #NSW A photo posted by LFR (@lruettimann) on Nov 11, 2014 at 8:36pm PST I’m headed home from Australia. I had a great trip. At one point, my husband and I took a semi-private tour of a secluded island. We did some snorkeling and hiking. We knew we were in trouble…

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