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The Next Chapter: Moving HR Connection to the HR Happy Hour Network (opens the original)
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In this brief transition episode, Sabrina announces a major milestone for The HR Connection. Effective today, our weekly podcast release schedule is wrapping up as we prepare to launch exclusively as a monthly spotlight show on the HR Happy Hour Network. Listen in to discover why we are shifting to a monthly cadence, what this means for our content depth and strategic frameworks, and how to stay connected with our bi-weekly YouTube teardowns and LinkedIn case studies. Key Takeaways The Big Trans
The Exit Interview No One's Reading (opens the original)
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Sabrina compares two clients with identical size (25-40 employees) and identical turnover (1-3 departures per quarter). One has a climbing engagement score. The other has been flat or dropping for two years. Same exit interview process, same data collected. The difference is what happens to the data after it's gathered. Three questions determine whether an exit interview process functions or is just a habit: Are people telling you the truth? Format drives honesty — face-to-face over forms, match
3 Reasons I Stopped Going to HR Conferences (opens the original)
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Sabrina Baker, founder and CEO of Acacia HR Solutions, breaks down why she stepped back from major HR conferences after years attending as an attendee, speaker, blogger, and conference organizer, and what she recommends instead for HR practitioners in the 1-500 employee range. Segments: Sabrina's conference background: attendee, blogger/"blog squad," speaker, and multi-year co-chair of the Illinois SHRM conference Reason 1: Content mismatch. Enterprise-level frameworks assume budget and headcoun
The Tool Often Dismissed That Changed How My Teams Communicate (opens the original)
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Most organizations hire, manage, and develop based on skill set alone and ignore the other half of every person: personality. In a team of five hundred, that gap gets absorbed. In a team of twelve, it becomes the culture. Sabrina is certified in Myers-Briggs and Hogan. In this episode she addresses the science objection directly, then walks through the four ways ignoring personality damages small teams and the one shift that fixes all four. What's covered: The objection — Personality typing isn'
The Termination I Handled Correctly That Still Ended in a Lawsuit. (opens the original)
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Sabrina walks through a real case: a role elimination executed while the employee was on paternity leave. Every step was legally defensible. He sued anyway. The client settled, not because they were wrong, but because trial risk on a paternity-leave termination isn't worth the exposure regardless of the underlying facts. What this episode covers: The timing decision: execute during leave or wait for return, and the reasoning behind choosing to act during leave The documentation gap: redundancy a
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