The HR Life Podcast is a show about the work-life experience of those of us in Human Resources and business leadership. This long-form podcast is a conversation, casual, and not always the corporate line. Hosts and guests touch on everything from serious or even controversial topics to the absurdity of modern American business practices. Your hosts are Tony Benjamin, owner and founder of The Grange Strategic HR Consulting, and Steven J. Smith, Author of The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction and all-around important guy. Guests include the best minds in the HR world. Join the show weekly.
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EP 74 Team Accountability: Coaches, Teammates, Fans, and a Birth Announcement on the Jumbotron with Heather Jo Kennedy
Most of our parents announced our births with a phone call or card with a stork on it. Heather Jo Kennedy's parents announced hers on the giant scoreboard at Texas Sta...
EP 73 Defining Strategic HR, City Planners, and the Human Capital Barf Bag With Elisa Garn
After roughly three million mentions on the show and a year and a half of begging, Elisa Garn finally joins Tony and Steve in the studio. She shows up shielding her ey...
Ep 72 Workplace Investigations, Hostile Work Environments, Grover, and No Cat in the Empty Red Seat
The Red Seat is Empty. The guys tease SHRM's latest jury verdict, then dive into the exciting and wonderful world of workplace investigations for small companies. Tony...
EP 71 Employee Discipline for Small Business in the Empty Red Seat
The Red Seat is empty again, so Steve opens with the story of waiting twelve hours in line at Wrigley Field during the 2016 World Series and somehow landing ten rows b...
EP 70 HR Is a Rorschach Test, the U of U Drops 600 HR Jobs, and Michael Jordan's Black Corvette in the Empty Red Seat
The Red Seat sits empty this week, which means nobody is there to keep Tony and Steve on task, and it shows. Steve finally tells the story of the day Michael Jordan pu...