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To Interrupt Unconsious Bias You Must Understand it

Bias is usually unconscious which means it is second nature to us. Have you ever questioned your own bias? Everyone should! In order to interrupt any form of bias, one must understand what bias is and even test if they have an unconscious b [...]

Calculating Loan Payments in Microsoft Excel

Much of Excel’s power and utility arises from the ability to perform complex calculations by providing one or more inputs. One example is the PMT function in Microsoft Excel, which enables us to calculate a loan payment if we provide three [...]

Understanding Implied Privacy When Hiring

Privacy rights for workers are governed by certain laws, whether local, state or federal, by industry regulations or rules, and/or by company specific policies. Additionally, in many situations, people in the workplace may also have what is [...]

Filtering Tips and Tricks in Excel

Information overload is one of the perils of working with lists of data in Microsoft Excel. There’s only so much information that we can comfortably work with in any given moment, which makes filtering a great tool for fighting back. The nu [...]

Liabilities When Posting Jobs and Notifications

Are you unintentionally discriminating by using unconscious bias in your job ads and notifications? Of course not! Well the words unintentional and unconscious are key and should really have you doing a double take right now and asking “I d [...]

Improve Your Effective Listening Skills to Benefit Your Team

Just as communication is more than just talking with each other, actively listening to your team is not as easy as it sounds. It is actually a process with the purpose of reaching a mutual understanding between each other. When it comes to [...]

Using HR Metrics

The cost of labor is often the top line-item expense in a financial report and since minimum wage laws are drastically changing right now, the cost of labor will also continue to rise at the speed of light. What can business owners do to re [...]

One-Person HR Department: Tips to Succeed

If you are an HR department of one, it is very likely that you were also juggling other responsibilities including recruiting, payroll and possibly operations; not to mention putting on a technical support hat for all the HR, payroll or ben [...]