HR Stories Podcast - A Lesson in Every Story!
Welcome to the HR Stories Podcast - where there is a lesson in every story. Our Storytellers - John Thalheimer and Chuck Simikian, the Team behind HR Stories, share real-life tales about where a business made a preventable mistake. At The HR Stories Podcast, the STORIES are the teaching tool! LISTEN to the stories of those who did not heed the warning signs. LEARN from their mistakes. ACT on best practices shared by our hosts and guests. Each year, our hosts, Chuck Simikian and John Thalheimer, deliver thousands of live seminars around the country to business owners, executives, and HR professionals discussing the fundamentals of Human Resources, Leadership best practices, and legal risk reduction activities for organizations. Each HR Story episode shares a story of where a company missed the mark, what went wrong, and how you can avoid their fate. As the Team at HR Stories, John and Chuck continue to develop and provide resources to help HR leaders, business owners, and organizations with the confidence they need to successfully handle employee issues and build strong employee practices to comply with employment laws. Both successful entrepreneurs help businesses through HR consulting, training, and coaching leaders. They have coached and trained thousands of HR Professionals, Business Owners, and Leaders to prepare them for the future. John is the Founding Director of True Star Leadership™, which focuses on helping managers and leaders learn performance management principles. Chuck is the Founding Partner of Alliance HR Partners, which provides HR consulting and training to businesses nationwide. Together, they have over 40 years of experience navigating the challenges of HR and recently published their book, The Ultimate Guide to HR: Checklist Edition. Go to https://ultimateguidetohr.com/ for more information, download a free sample, and watch their webinar on the Secret Power Behind Successful Businesses.
Show episodes
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Avoiding a bad hire and restriction avoidant workers
Send us a text Welcome to another Listener Q&A with The Team at HR Stories! Today"s episode goes into these questions:How do you effectively advise on not hiring a bad culture-fit candidate?How do you properly navigate legal documentation and onboarding documentation for transgender individuals?How do you work with an
Send us a text When a new hire of a trucking company follows directives from a supervisor, he lands in hot water - literally - and in a dispute around workmans" comp. What is classified under this umbrella and how can you think about it in realistic terms? This week, Chuck and John dive into all of this an more as they
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Getting Directors to Take a Step Back and Operations to Align
Send us a text Welcome to another Listener Q&A with The Team at HR Stories! Today"s episode goes into these questions:Should supervisors working in the field be exempt or non-exempt? What questions should we ask?When you try to offload responsibilities from Directors to Managers but the Directors continue to step in an
Send us a text Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or someone who was volun-told that you are now handling HR functions at work, there can be an overwhelming amount of questions around every corner and in every process. Maybe you’re trying to figure out how to manage remote workers effectively or how to properly
Send us a text A story in the New York Times brought to light a different side to the Trader Joe"s so many know and love, talking about how a policy of positivity and happy greetings was creating quite the opposite of a work environment for employees. In today’s episode, Chuck and John talk about this contradicting pol
Send us a text Welcome to another Listener Q&A with The Team at HR Stories! Today"s episode goes into these questions:Are the new FLSA Salary threshold rules in place for January 2025? Did we miss the announcement?If you have an employee working on the phone with customers and the customer starts speaking very inapprop