Robin.Schooling

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An HR Executive and strategist, Robin Schooling, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has worked in a variety of industries including gaming, health care, manufacturing and banking. She’s a member of the Advisory Board for BlackbookHR, and has served on advisory boards for Smartbrief on Workforce, Geaux Veterans, and the Louisiana Business Leadership Network, which focuses on providing positive employment outcomes for people with disabilities. Robin is a Past President of Greater Baton Rouge SHRM, a former board member with ATD Baton Rouge, an active member of the Baton Rouge Social Media Association, and served on the Louisiana SHRM State Council for 10 years. In 2011, GBR SHRM awarded Robin its “HR Professional of the Year Award.”

She’s on a mission to make organizations better by making HR better and spends her free time cheering on the New Orleans Saints and corralling her four dogs. Check out her blog, follow her on Twitter @RobinSchooling or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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Member for: 12 years 2 months

Articles by Robin Schooling

My Love/Hate Relationship with Training Activities

Training activities. Classroom participation events. Facilitated group learning exercises. Whatever.

Often, something designed to provide an “a-ha” moment to workplace learners ends up creating discomfort, dismay and even distress. In an attempt to make training FUN (with a capital F!!) group facilitators require attendees to play BINGO or pass oranges with their chins or do art projects. I’ve been there and done that – on both sides of the equation (mea culpa).

September 19, 2012

Tags:

Training, Employee Engagement

Career Development: An Ongoing Maintenance Program

During the economic downturn and continuing post-recession there has been an increased need for career development programs and services as individuals who were laid-off, some after many years in one career, found themselves faced with an uncertain future. Many began the often challenging task of re-assessing and creating new career patterns and determining how to integrate their work style, their personal needs, their values, and their sense of self as they planned for their future.

May 23, 2012

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Career Development, Career Changes, Training

Flexibility, Agility and Operational Success

Quite often, including here at We Know Next, when the term “flexibility” is used with respect to the workplace, it’s often in the discussion of worklife balance initiatives that serve as benefits to the employer and employee. In this arena, we think about telework, co-working, ROWE, and other employer-supported program to give employees more control over how, when and where they work. Having a flexible workplace is now viewed as something that smart companies do in order to support their culture, increase employee engagement and loyalty, and ultimately drive business success.

March 13, 2012

Tags:

Business Strategy, Leadership

Keeping Everyone Safe in the Workplace

“If you come to work with ten fingers and ten toes, then that’s how we intend to send you home each day.”

That was the oft-uttered phrase of an Operations Manager with whom I worked. It was the foundation of his message to new hires during New Employee Orientation and he repeated it at all staff meetings. Safety mattered.

January 31, 2012

Tags:

Safety, Workplace, Technology, Employment Law

Remove the Barriers to Raise the Bar

October 27, 2011

Tags:

Leadership, Employee Engagement, Culture, Employee relations

The Curse of Corporate Anonymity

Over the years I’ve received a handful of anonymous notes and letters while working at various organizations. Scribbled on pages torn from legal pads or neatly typed and sealed in envelopes, the notes often lacked specifics and were furtively slipped under the door of the HR Department –

“Some coworkers who work in my department are doing things that go against company policy.

I thought you should know. Signed, A Concerned Employee.”

October 3, 2011

Tags:

Employee relations, HR Policies, Leadership, Communication