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The HR Hub by Andrea Adams — 271 episodes

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Workplace Investigations: 6 Steps to a Defensible Process

2

Pay Transparency 2026: What HR Needs to Know

3

The Myth of Organic Company Culture

4

[SMB Essentials] Handling Employee Complaints - The Draining Kind

5

Hiring - An Evidence-Based Approach (w. Dr. Nita Chhinzer)

6

Emotional Labour in HR (w. Dina Denham Smith)

7

[SMB Essentials] How to handle employee complaints - the LEGAL kind

8

People First Culture - How Caring for Employees is a Performance Multiplier (w. Josh Block)

9

The Future of L&D (w. Josh Cardoz)

10

Emotional Intelligence for HR (with Jen Shirkani)

11

[SMB Essentials] How to Onboard a New Employee

12

Connection at Work: The Business Issue No One Is Talking About (w. Ryan Jenkins)

13

Wellness Programs Weren't Built for Parents—Here's What Works (with Dr. Rosina McAlpine)

14

HR is Not Well: Survey of HR Wellbeing (w. Dr. Jo Burrell)

15

The HR Guide to Reading any Room (w. Dina Denham Smith)

16

Build Better Intergenerational Teams - And Stop Blaming (with Cam Marston)

17

DisruptHR - How HR Can Lead Transformation (with Jennifer McClure)

18

2025 HR Trends that Will Continue into 2026

19

How to do Reference Checks (with James Lord)

20

How to Hire Good Employees - in the Age of AI

21

Virtual Team Events - What Works (And Doesn't Suck)

22

Payroll Basics For HR Professionals

23

What HR Strategy Alignment Actually Looks Like - with Nadia Uberoi

24

Restructuring and Job Loss: The Impacts of Market Trends (with Dr. Nita Chhinzer)

25

Generation Numb: Exhaustion and Overwhelm in the Workforce - with Josh Cardoz

26

Working Mom Burnout: The Impact on Organizations (with Dr. Rosina McAlpine)

27

The Impact of Generational Myths - With Cam Marston

28

Reference Checks in Recruitment: Is There Any Point?

29

How Much Severance? What you should pay in the US.

30

How to Get Along With Your Payroll Department - And Be Effective

31

Remote Work vs The Office: The Hidden Costs of Winging Hybrid and Flexible Work

32

AI in Recruiting - What Actually Works vs. What's Just Hype

33

How AI Will Really Impact Talent Management (Beyond the Hype)

34

Workplace Romances: The Good, The Bad, and The Restraining Orders

35

Workaholism - The Downside and Impact on Organizations

36

Professional Employer Organizations: The Real Story

37

Employee Retention: Avoid Resignation Letters

38

Mergers And Acquisitions In HRM: How We Improve Company Valuation

39

Coaching Culture: Why Yours Isn't Working and How to Fix It

40

Workforce Planning for AI: What HR Should Do Now

41

You've Been Told to Stop DEI

42

Stop Trying to Motivate Your Employees (Do This Instead)

43

Facilitation Techniques: Tips for Facilitating Groups

44

Lessons for HR Pros - 7 tips from 100+ conversations

45

Employee Engagement: No Nonsense on What Really Works

46

The Uncomfortable Art of Receiving Feedback

47

Resilience In Me: 10 Ways to Build Your Mental Strength

48

Salary Benchmarking: How to Answer "But Everyone Else Pays More!"

49

Data Driven Learning: Training that has an Impact

50

How To Do Workforce Planning: An Overview

51

Power Abuse in The Workplace: Lessons for HR

52

Facilitation Skills You Need To Know - HR Edition

53

Building Resilience In The Workplace - Tips And Strategies

54

HR in a Charity - Frank Advice

55

The Future of Work at 2025

56

Psychological Safety At Work: Build it Fast!!

57

What Is 'Compensation Philosophy'? And Why You Need One.

58

Human Resources In A Toxic Work Environment

59

Understanding Microaggressions

60

Wellness At Work - What Actually Helps Employees

61

Skills Based Organization - Easier Upskilling & Reskilling

62

Accountability: What gets done and HOW it gets done

63

HR Trends 2025 - What The Research Says

64

2024 Retrospective

65

Steps In Talent Acquisition: Preparation Is Key

66

Company Culture - An unusual advocate

67

Not For Profit Organizations - HR & Culture

68

Organization Development - What Does it Do?

69

Building Relationships with Clients in HR

70

Employee Value Proposition Tips And Tricks

71

Hiring International Employees - Tips for Global Hiring 🇺🇸

72

Toxicity at Work - What is It?

73

Trauma Informed Workplace - Tips for HR

74

Incivility at Work

75

Neurodiversity In The Workplace: Benefits, Challenges, Surprises

76

Own Your Career Growth

77

The Future of DEI - A Panel Discussion

78

AI In Recruitment - Indeed's Perspective

79

Building Organizational Culture: Tips to Understand and Build Yours

80

Mindset In The Workplace: The Importance, Power, and Application

81

Building Trust on Teams

82

Employer Role In Retirement Planning

83

Executive Search Explained

84

Building A Strong Leadership Team - No Ropes Courses Involved

85

Difficult Employees: 5 irritating things they do and what to do about it

86

Employer Branding Explained

87

Managing Employee Attendance (SMB Series)

88

US Guide To Hiring Foreign Workers

89

Succession Planning

90

HR Strategies For Growth - 5 Tips

91

Cross Cultural Training: When Norms are Different

92

Debating Remote Work: How You Do It Matters

93

Training Employees In Small Business (SMB Series)

94

Learning And Development: Embed It In Your Culture

95

Recruiting in Small Business: Do it Yourself! (SMB Series)

96

360 Feedback Implementation Process

97

New Leader Training: Unlock Potential

98

Labour shortage? Hire Older Workers!

99

Pay Transparency: The Basics For HR

100

The Mind-Blowing Impact of Financial Accounting on HR

101

Workforce Analytics: Helpful or Creepy??

102

The Process Of Performance Appraisal - And the Debate

103

Dealing with Problem Employees (SMB series)

104

Use Storytelling In Presentations

105

Compliance in HR (SMB Series)

106

Knowledge Application: Ensure Transfer of Learning

107

How To Setup HR For Your Business (SMB Series)

108

Decision Making In HRM: Evidence-Based HR

109

Age Discrimination In The Workplace

110

Difference Between Training And Development In HRM

111

Remote Work Policy: Build Your Own

112

What Is 360 Feedback? And how do you do it?

113

How To Implement Pay Equity

114

Leadership Trends - Tips for HR

115

Mission, Vision, Values: Alignment for HR

116

From Mediation Skills To Conflict Confidence

117

AI In Hr: Don't Be A Cautionary Tale

118

What Is HR Strategy Compared To Tactics?

119

HR Strategy: What should you focus on?

120

Skills HR Professionals Should Have: Avoiding A Leader's Work

121

Mediation for HR: Everyday skills for conflict

122

AI For HR: The Basics, Potential, and Perils

123

HR Strategy vs Business Strategy

124

Credibility Assessment - Who's Telling the Truth?

125

Build a mentoring program at work

126

Mindset for Work

127

HR Risk Management

128

DEI - A Story About Belonging

129

Mentoring: An Intro For HRM

130

Presentation Skills For HR

131

Getting A Promotion At Work

132

How to Calculate the ROI of HR Projects

133

How To Conduct An HR Audit

134

Handling Difficult Employees

135

Tips To Improve Public Speaking Skills

136

How to retain employees: Support managers

137

Psychological safety at work

138

5 Steps To Improving Your Employee Experience

139

Why Good Employees Leave (And How to Keep Them)

140

Developing Executive Presence - It's Necessary For HR Too

141

Basics Of Agile HR

142

Dealing With Difficult Leaders - When You're HR

143

Decolonization For HRM: How To Start

144

How To Manage Crisis At Work

145

Building Trust In The Workplace - An Intro

146

How to fire someone nicely

147

Workplace Inclusion - Moving Beyond Diversity

148

Building Trust In The Workplace - tips for HR

149

The Duty To Accommodate - How Far Do You Have To Go?

150

Career Transition / Outplacement - Strategies For HR

151

Understanding Unconscious Bias

152

Employee Wellness Programs - Implementation

153

Productivity in the Workplace - And Feel Better Too!

154

Dismissing A Disabled Employee - Best Practice (Canadian content)

155

Employee Wellness Programs - An Intro

156

Becoming An HR Professional (CPHR 2023)

157

Digital Wellness in the Workplace

158

Instructional Design: Tips for Success

159

HR Reporting (And Focusing your Effort)

160

Recognition In The Workplace - Programs That Work

161

Tips For Negotiation In Business & HR

162

Learning and Development Basics

163

Why Measure Human Resources

164

Employee Wellness In The Workplace - This Isn't What You Expect

165

HR Membership Benefits - For Students

166

Soft Skills For Business: Or are they POWER Skills?

167

How To Implement Career Pathing or Ladders. Or Should We Say Lattice?!

168

Reducing Dysfunction At Work - Tips & Strategies

169

HR Technology - Tips for Selecting, Negotiating and Buying It!

170

Telling the Story of Your People Data

171

When Employees Complain to HR

172

How To Identify Subtle Misconduct And What To Do

173

Implementing HRIS - How To Prepare

174

Workplace Microaggressions

175

How to write a good job ad

176

The Steps Of Organization Design

177

How to Use Job Boards

178

Psychometric Testing Explained - And Applied

179

Transformational Change Process

180

HR as an Immigrant

181

Job Evaluation And Grading

182

Psychometric Tests For Recruitment - The Science!

183

Allyship at work: Take action!

184

Conducting Job Evaluation: Job SIZE

185

Principles of Organization Design

186

Building Resilience At Work - in You and in the Workforce

187

Personality Assessments For Team Building

188

HR Surveys For Mergers And Acquisitions

189

Tips For Dealing With Upset Employees

190

Building Relationships In HR - Developing Rapport with your Clients

191

Burnout at work - spotting it and doing something about it

192

Employee Engagement - Running A Survey

193

Change management, HRM and what you need to know

194

HR Outsourcing - When YOU are the outsourced HR

195

Authenticity for HR

196

HR trends for 2022 and beyond

197

Employee Benefits Trends

198

Indigenous Inclusion - What HR Can Do

199

Workplace mediation - is it worth it?

200

Reference Checks In Recruitment Process - The Recruitment Debates!

201

Recognition in the hybrid workplace

202

Indigenous Reconciliation in DEI

203

Engaging Employees During Uncertainty

204

First Time Leadership Role? Listen to this and be reassured.

205

Where to start with people analytics

206

Recognition At Work - An easy way to make it better!

207

WCB Claims - You Should Prepare (Not Just Avoid Or Respond)

208

Leadership in HRM - applying the theories

209

Job Design. Or Job CRAFTING??

210

What does an HR Manager do?

211

Privacy In the Workplace - Legislation and Policy

212

Threat Assessment in the Workplace: Minimizing the Risk of Violence

213

Laywers & HR: The good and bad

214

Compliance in HR

215

Gender in the WorkSPACE

216

WCB Basics

217

Employee Voice in the Workplace

218

HR for Startups

219

Cybersecurity for HR

220

Basics of People Analytics

221

Collective Bargaining Basics

222

Benefits Costs

223

Workplace vaccination policy

224

Employee benefits in Canada

225

Bullying and Harassment

226

What Does An Employee Benefits Broker Do?

227

Intro to Project Management for HR

228

Sourcing versus traditional recruitment? Tips and timing.

229

Collective Bargaining Preparation

230

Incentive compensation

231

Improving the Employee Experience

232

Project management in HRM?

233

How to grow in your HR career

234

What is the Employee Experience?

235

Change Management Tips

236

What is base salary?

237

Talent Management Explained

238

Change Management

239

Creating Culture Change in an Organization

240

Better Recruitment Process

241

What Is Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

242

Managing Organizational Culture

243

Equity Diversity And Inclusion In The Workplace

244

Building A Safety Culture At Work - Tips for HR

245

HR Consulting

246

Automating Recruitment

247

Employee Manual

248

Workplace Investigations

249

HR's role during crisis

250

Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management?

251

Designing an onboarding process

252

Workplace Psychological Health and Safety

253

Managing your Boss

254

Labour Relations

255

Pension Plan Tips

256

Resolving Workplace Conflict

257

Work Life Wellness for Remote Employees

258

Organizational Coaching

259

Organizational Restructuring

260

HR Support for a Remote Workforce

261

HR Metrics: Start with the business

262

From transactional to transformational HRM

263

What does an HR Business Partner do?

264

HRM - The impact on profit

265

Recruiting tips - Lessons for HR

266

Reorgs in a Company

267

The National Knowledge Exam

268

How to become a Chartered Professional in HR (CPHR)

269

CPHR Alberta

270

Performance Management

271

What is it like to work in Human Resources