December 4, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments The Holiday You Didn’t Know You Needed — Improve Your HR Wednesday, December 11, is the first annual HR Festivus What is Festivus? Seinfeld writer Dan O’Keef created Festivus and made it part of the ... Read More
October 28, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments Do you even want to change? — Improve Your HR Right now, I’m working with my improv students on a game called “Changes.” This is where you do a scene, and the director shouts ... Read More
October 9, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments Don’t Be Prepared; Be Available — Improve Your HR Last Saturday, I took an improv workshop with Djibril Traoré. He said the above: “Don’t be prepared; be available,” and attributed it to Keith ... Read More
September 10, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments Improv Your Weenies — Improve Your HR I’m writing this from Terminal 3 at Heathrow, waiting for an American Airlines flight to Dallas. From there, I will catch a connecting flight ... Read More
May 14, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments I’m So Incredibly Embarrassed On the same day, I got two messages asking the same question: “I did something embarrassing. Did I just ruin my life?” The funny ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments I Wish I Had a Goat — Evil HR Lady Sometimes, the universe hands you the perfect thing that you need at the moment. Sometimes, it hands you the worst possible thing. Regardless, you ... Read More