Posts by Hebba Youssef
📄 policy power moves
✍🏽 What are some best practices for writing parental leave policies? Any system or tools you’d suggest for how to administer/track parental leave? Context: People leader at a series B startup that is progressive in their policies and looking for solutions to fit that. 📣 Cassandra Babilya, Head of Employee Experience Strategy at Amazon: Here’s…
Read More3 things HR teams are grateful for:
Fun fact: being grateful is consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude is being thankful for things in life, either tangible or intangible. It’s about affirming the goodness in life and acknowledging the sources of goodness outside of yourself. Gratitude can help folks: I list gratitude as one of my 3 core values alongside curiosity and…
Read More🍗 winging it & serving it up
✍🏽 How do you help a business owner see the need for a formal HR program when they’ve gone 40+ years just “winging it”? Context: Trucking industry, 140 drivers (30% company, 70% contractor), 40 full-time staff (not including drivers). Family-owned business second/third generation. For example, no performance reviews, no ombudsman program, just an “open door…
Read MoreThe struggles of performance management:
If you’ve been reading I Hate it Here for a while you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I loathe performance management. 😂 So much so that one of my earliest editions was all about how performance management doesn’t actually assess performance. Despite most People teams knowing that there are issues with performance management,…
Read More💼 personal vs. professional
✍🏽 How do I handle an employee who has a visible and public social media account with a lot of followers and is VERY open and shares A LOT about her personal life on her public page? Context: Small NPO in a conservative area. We support gov, biz, & community leaders, CEOs, Unis, other NPOs.…
Read MoreThe challenges of hiring
If I said hiring is broken, would you disagree? Probably not. We’ve all heard stories from candidates about awful experiences like hiring processes that take weeks to reach a decision to hiring managers who don’t actually know what they want. Been there, experienced that! On the flip side, recruiting teams are dealing with: It’s a…
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