The TeamFireball, Inc. Fit Crawl Experience!

  By Alila Hollander, SPHR, SHRM-SCPHR Consultant | HRBOOST®, LLC.™ As an HR professional, I’ve set up multiple wellness-related programs and personally participated in team building activities as well. Last Thursday, I had an opportunity to (for once!) participate in my employer’s team building challenge through Team Fireball, Inc. Debbie Pickus, owner and founder of Team Fireball, and…

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Culture Shock!

“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”             ~Bo Olson, worked in books marketing at Amazon   After reading about Amazon’s workplace habits, you will go into culture shock. Would you want to work for an organization where nearly every person cried at their desk? According to Olson, a former…

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HRBOOST® Announces BoostU

GIVE YOUR LEADERSHIP A BOOST: INTRODUCING BoostU AND OUR NEWLeadership Boost Program!   HRBOOST® is excited to announce our NEW FIVE PART COURSEspecifically developed for NEW LEADERS AND MANAGERS!   It’s the small business quandary. As your business grows you need to place people in management decisions. You want to promote from within. After all, these are the people who…

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DNA-7 – Changing the Way We See HR Technology

  I had the pleasure of meeting CEO of DNA-7, Eyal Steiner and not only is he globe trotter bringing something very valuable to us in the United States, the technology from DNA-7 provides a whole new way to analyze how information flows through an organization. With communication breakdowns being behind most barriers to performance…

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In Case You Missed Our First Working Wellness Event

  What a glorious evening at the Catalyst Ranch; the first of a series of four Working Health events ended up being one that was informational and inspirational. With experts outlining the benefits of integrated health, decoding health and beauty products and secrets behind plant-based living, everyone who attended walked away with something new; literally,…

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A Different Way to Think About Retreats

Leading the transformational retreat A new leader we’ll call Audrey took on a challenging new role. She would need to dial up the rigor, energy, commitment and effectiveness of her team if she was to succeed in a marketplace that had been changing profoundly. She also realized she had to make some tough personnel calls…

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HR is a HUB! The Conduit to Success.

Every company is started with a vision. There is always a principal owner or executive who was inspired by an idea, a spark of intuition! And if they are blessed, they in turn evolve that idea into inspiration which evolves into a real life business. And once the business becomes a reality, that is when…

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Truly, Would You Want to Work for You? by Jacob The Intern

It is no secret that the key to running a successful business is to maximize the utility of the workforce. A manager can have planned everything perfectly, have an excellent and innovative idea and hired a talented staff to assist in carrying out all the ideas and plans the manager has put together. But unless…

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Playing for the Same Team, by Jacob the Intern

The recent weeks were very exciting in the field of HR here in Chicago. The 65th annual SHRM Conference, held at McCormick Place in the city is a great opportunity to network with other businesses and learn about what HR challenges they are facing and the solutions they are finding to overcome these challenges. But,…

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