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HR BESTIES

HR Besties: HR Department of One

HR BESTIES

HR Besties LLC

Management, Business

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's agenda: 

  • Ashley meets The Backstreet Boys
  • Cringe corporate speak: same page
  • Hot topic: HR department of one
  • It's normal to feel lonely in any department of one
  • Communication
  • Creating tools for self service
  • Tactful education is key
  • Questions/Comments 


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Tune in to "HR Besties," a business, work and management podcast hosted by Leigh Elena Henderson (HRManifesto), Ashley Herd (ManagerMethod) and Jamie Jackson (Humorous_Resources), where we navigate the labyrinth of corporate culture, from cringe corporate speak to toxic leadership. Whether you're in Human Resources or not, corporate or small business, we offer sneak peeks into surviving work, hiring strategies, and making the employee experience better for all. Tune in for real talk on employee engagement, green flags in the workplace, and how to turn red flags into real change. Don't miss our chats about leadership, career coaching, and takes from work travel and watercooler gossip. Get new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, follow us on socials for the latest updates, and join us at our virtual happy hours to share your HR stories.

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0:00.0

So you know, there's no such thing as a real dream job, because at a job, you're going to have to deal with, like, not fun things, right?

0:13.0

But I did once have a job that was probably the closest thing to dream job in corporate that I ever could have had.

0:20.0

So my first job, when I went to work from

0:22.5

law firms to go and working in-house, you work directly for a company. I worked for a radio company,

0:28.3

like a large publicly traded radio company. In that environment, like a lot of times you work and

0:34.7

it's kind of just, you know, it doesn't echo what the real

0:38.0

life is like. But there, we'd have music on all the time. And I would, so I was in legal and we really

0:43.9

partnered and became kind of strategic HR. But like on our hallway, we're like the different like

0:49.7

heads of content, like the different channels. And like, so I'd get some concert tickets or I

0:55.7

remember working on something and I was looked up at my door and there was John Tesh at the door.

1:00.6

I heard his voice and I knew exactly who it was looking up. He was going, you know, coming. Yeah,

1:05.0

yeah, yeah. So and people would stop and come through these offices and it was, it was such a blast.

1:10.0

But perhaps the best day was I came to work

1:13.3

and my assistant, who was amazing for the legal department, she had a master's degree. I used to want to

1:19.5

call it international espionage. And I don't think that's it. I think it was just like international

1:24.4

like intelligence. And she'd gotten it while she was working there. But so she was like, she was awesome. We were super close friends. I came in and she was like, clap, cup, quop. She's like, this is the best day ever. And she was right. She told me the back street boys are coming. Oh my gosh. To the office. So like, I was like, what I'm like oh my god, that's crazy. And this was like 10, just over 10 years ago. And so this wasn't like the 90s backstreet boys. But this was like still a big deal. Yeah, yeah, a big deal. So anyway, so I was like, oh my God, what? And she's like they're coming at like 930. I mean, it was like all points bulletin. When I talk about a workplace of like bringing your true self to work, people were like, oh my God, what? And she's like, they're coming at like 930. I mean, it was like all

2:00.8

points bulletin. When I talk about a workplace of like bring your true stuff to work, people were like driving to go get their kids to bring to bring them in. I mean, I did. My daughter was like two so I was only thinking about myself on this day. But I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. But this is where I worked was at the corner of Peachtree in Piedmont, for those that know Atlanta, it's like the equivalent of like, I don't know, not hate Ashbury, but like it's like a big, big, very heavily trafficked intersection and like big office towers all over the place, shopping centers. Traffic is a biotch, especially around the holidays or in the morning as this was. So we're like,

2:35.5

oh, this is going to be amazing. And we're kind of getting the download. And they're like, oh, well,

2:38.9

the backstreet boys are coming. They're meeting up at the parking lot. I'm like, at the Kroger, across the, across the street. Yeah, they're meeting the Kroger. And they're all getting in separate tour buses to come over.

2:47.7

I'm like, already I was like,

2:49.8

well, like the Beatles. Like, what do you mean?

2:52.3

So the backstreet boys

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