Camille Bradbury

Following a widely attended HRinsidr sponsored webinar on AI and hiring, HRinsidr sat down with HR Consultant and Speaker Mandy Simeone to dig deeper into the questions HR professionals are asking most including how to navigate hiring, recruiting, and making genuine connections in the age of AI.

Crucial conversations is a dialogue style that teaches you to calm your emotions and stick to the heart of the matter during high stake, highly opinionated conversations. For civility, this tool is a game-changer. Help your teams learn to express controversial topics with respect for one another.

Learn how to help new managers in Micheal D. Watkins' Virtuous Cycle for new managers in his International Bestseller, The First 90 Days. The Virtuous Cycle and The Vicious Cycle are two cycles that forecast the success or failure of hiring a new manager.

Research consistently shows empathy is one of the strongest drivers of performance, engagement, and retention. When employees feel their leaders are empathetic, the overwhelming majority report they can better navigate work and life demands. And employees routinely say they would leave—or even take a pay cut—for a more empathetic employer.

Learn how workplace disagreements escalate beneath the surface and how tools like the Ladder of Inference can help teams move from assumption to clarity. With a return-to-office example, we show how to redirect tension into productive dialogue.

Many workplace traditions often reflect the culture of the dominant group, without questioning whether that culture represents everyone at the table. What is presented as festive can unintentionally alienate. What is framed as inclusive may, in practice, be anything but.

Gratitude is instrumental in effective communication, personal wellness, healthy work/life balance, solving conflict, and encouraging team connection. Learn how you can infuse it in your culture.

"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from someone "who’s been there, and done that". Navigating tough workplace dynamics? Feeling like your company’s not aligned with your values? Exhausted, overwhelmed, and in need of a fresh perspective? Ask a seasoned HR pro, Ellie.

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