A lot of us know the story of David and Goliath. The one seemingly regular guy taking down a supreme and much bigger warrior. People often use this story as a reference for an underdog type of situation. One understated and often unheard of fact is that David might have been a regular guy. However,…
Category: HR 101
Perseverance and Saving Your Career!
Guest blog from Ushekia Mcghee For years you’ve committed yourself to developing professionally, saving towards retirement, children’s education, and overall evolving into this person you have set out to be. Although you’ve committed to these things, somehow, you have allowed a boss, a supervisor, or a leader to mentally break you and contemplate giving it all…
Keys to Successful Meetings
Meetings have become mundane must-do tasks in many organizations, we loathe scheduling them, attending them and the lack of decisions made by them. Many of them are meetings that simply just lead up to more meetings. Meetings serve a purpose are supposed to be productive. Your time, as well as your coworkers, should never be…
Interview Techniques: Scoring Sheets
“Don’t Let Your Eyes Deceive You” There are many great interviewing techniques some will apply to you and some may not. I will show a couple of reasons for using scoring sheets during interviews. Using scoring sheets can remove bias which may happen when using only your “eyes” to select the best candidate for your…
The Hypocrisy of Being Authentic
Authenticity is a topic that seems to be trending in business as well as in sports, social media, politics and other areas. People want truth and transparency from their friends, coworkers and public figures. Individuals should be proud to reveal their true selves to every one they come in contact with. At first glance it…
Just Been Fired!!!!Oh No
So you have just had the unfortunate news that you have been fired, what now? First things first do you have your employee handbook? It’s probably under a pile of old papers in a desk drawer or at home in the office but it would be wise to find it. Everyone should do their due…
HR Leaders Pay Attention!
This article written by Ram Charan has very strong views that might offend many of us that work in HR, especially HR Directors. I wanted to take the time to read this to form my own opinion and one thing is for certain, HR we are on notice! If we want more power in the…
Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself……..
I know a few of you might glance at the blog and might not be quite sure who I am exactly or what’s the purpose of this blog. I am Edward Balfour and I am currently an active duty HR Specialist for the Army National Guard and owner of Harden Consulting. I created this blog…
So You Want To Get In To HR!
Congrats! You have made one of the biggest but wonderful decisions in your life, your career and you want it to be in Human Resources. Good for you now HERE comes the hard part actually getting a job in HR. This process and length may not be the same for everyone but let me give…
Do’s & Don’ts of a Start-Up, A Newbies View.
So you want to be an “entrepreneur” huh? Sounds good, even sounds glorious but there is definitely a gap between the startup and big paychecks. I am learning as well just thought I would share. Take some time to evaluate where you currently are, you might want to adjust a few things moving forward. Here…
Push Them Forward.......HR Stewardship! 