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If you’re an HR Party of One, you wear many hats: payroll specialist, benefits strategist,

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compensation consultant, recruiter, onboarding expert, HRIS manager… I could go on all day.

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I have an important question for you. Out of all those hats you wear,

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are any of them focused on your career? Your experiences? Any of your fun ideas

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or the complaints no one else would understand?

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As HR, your role is isolating. But it doesn’t have to be. I’m

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inviting you to join the HR Party of One Community, built for HR and by HR.

Your People, Your Role, Your Community

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Your People, Your Role, Your Community. There are hundreds, if not thousands of

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online Human Resources forums out there—but how many of the users on HR forums are,

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ya know… HR? [clutter the screen with employee questions asked on HR forums]

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Not a lot. Maybe none—except one. One forum, purely HR, for the HR Party of One. This community

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is free to join, moderated by HR professionals, and created with your needs in mind.

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Organized into forums based on topic, this community is intended to become your go-to

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place for discussion. Signing up is simple, and using it is even simpler.

How to Use the HR Party of One Community

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-How to Use the HR Party of One Community. I promise, it's quick and easy! Three simple

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steps and you are on your way to having an HR community support system available to you whenever

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you need it. Create a login

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Verify via email Create a password

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That’s it. You’re in. Now, you’re free to post topics, peruse answers,

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and be a part of a community dedicated to you. Here’s how you can start getting involved:

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Check out the forums, which feature top HR topics like: Recruitment and Onboarding, Company Culture,

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Compensation and Benefits, Payroll, Compliance, PTO / Unpaid Time Off, and Growth and Development.

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Add a topic! The button to add your own post is in the top left.

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Pop in and view some other topics and their threads or responses.

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See some of the Would You Rathers? questions? Respond with your own

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opinion or post your own fun Would You Rather to see how other HR pros think.

Answer Top Questions, Receive Top Answers

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Answer Top Questions, Receive Top Answers. The Would You Rather questions are always fun,

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but many of the topics added to the community are insightful, hard-hitting,

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and challenging. For example, we’ve gotten some great questions to challenge your HR skills,

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like, “How do you work with a teammate with very low emotional intelligence?”

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One of our community members, Helen, has an idea. She responded,

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“Just be upbeat!” I agree with Helen, but I think that’s more of the foundation of

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my thoughts rather than the whole answer. I think that: [EW ad-lib]

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What do you think about working with low-EQ teammates? Add your thoughts to the conversation.

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Other questions spark helpful discourse, too. For example,

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“How do you know if your work benefits package is a good one?”

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This answer could be extremely subjective, but the purpose of the HR Party of One Community

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is to provide YOUR experience, advice, and considerations. Everyone will find value in

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your response, whether your organization is 20 lives or 2,000. Someone may respond

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to your response with feedback or tips, which, in this industry, is

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quite refreshing to receive from an actual HR pro versus everyone else with their own two cents.

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Stephanie, who has many years of experience working with total rewards, responded,

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“The Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM) is also a great resource! I'm not

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sure if all state chapters do this, but I know in my state SHRM publishes an annual Compensation and

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Benefits survey that is put together based on information from employers all over the

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state. It provides salary range information based on industries, positions within that

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industry, etc. It also includes information on PTO such as holidays, sick leave, etc.”

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Nina, one of the community members, asked for advice about promoting someone:

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“My highest performing salesperson wants to be promoted to the open manager role. Thing is,

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he’s the highest performer—we can’t really afford to remove him from that role. Any advice?”

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She got a few great responses. Curious to see what others

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advised her to do in this situation? The answers were pretty divided. Check out the discussion,

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which I linked for you in the description. Do you have any thoughts on your role? Or an

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experience to share that can help others? Add it! Open discussion is encouraged,

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and you can share whatever you want—although, as HR,

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I recommend against sharing identifiable information about any employees.

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For any questions or replies that go unanswered, our own team can step in. But if you know someone

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who may have great insight into a question, you can also tag them to respond. Really,

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tag them every time! Your role is busy, and an email reminder is never a bad

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thing. Participation in the HR Party of One Community is not a commitment or a time sink.

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It’s a quick way to learn more and develop creative ideas with human resources pros.

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If you need particular help or want to monitor a certain topic, make sure to select

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“Follow Topic” to be notified when people leave a response. This will also help you

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see when others join your topic thread! And if someone leaves a thought you don’t agree with,

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just remember that the same concept applies in this community just as it does in your workplace:

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critique the idea, not the person. In fact, I’ll add that to my low-EQ discussion thread.

Additional Free Resources for HR

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Oh, and by the way, this isn’t exclusive or paid. You don’t have to use BerniePortal to

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join our community. The HR Party of One Community is for you to make your role

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as strategic as you can while lightening the implicit isolation of being human resources.

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Our entire goal here at BerniePortal is to be HR’s best friend, providing

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the best resources for HR professionals to steer their organization forward. Remember,

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your role is as strategic as you make it.