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I love “mom and pop shops”. Before I was born, my parents owned a small auto parts store in Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The store was bankrupt early in my life, and by the time I was …
[Read more...] about Sympathy is Not a Good Basis for Hiring
In this video, Nance discusses how #employers who only see #employees as an expense or cost center might need to shift more than their thinking. If your employees are merely draining funds from …
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“I need to fire an employee and I don't want to get sued.” That's how it began with my client, Cliff. And to be honest, it's how a lot of my clients come to me. They come with this situation that …
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(This was originally posted on December 14, 2020, but it's still relevant.) My goal is to keep you out of court and build your conflict resolution skills. So today, what I want to talk about is …
The first thing I invite my clients—and now you—to do is make the seven choices from the Third Ear Conflict Resolution process. That's to get rid of any emotional charge that you might have around …
[Read more...] about How Do You Deal with an Anti-Vaxx Employee?
Because I am an employment attorney and mediator with experience as a human resources and employee relations supervisor, employers often ask me about combatting sex discrimination and sexual …
[Read more...] about How Can We Combat Gender Discrimination in the Workplace?
Let's talk about gender pronouns. Employers are confused and worried about using the wrong gender pronouns. They ask me questions like: Is every slip-up actionable? How much is it going to …
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Nance recently worked with Christine Michel Carter of Health on an article about institutionalized racism. Here's a draft of what they discussed, much of which was disappointingly cut from the final …
[Read more...] about Nance L. Schick Talks to Health.com About Institutional Racism
The quick answer is that not much is different. This is a response to my last video in which I talked about managing LGBTQ employees. The reason the Bostock case didn't change much in New York …
[Read more...] about What Did Last Year’s Bostock Case Mean for LGBTQ Employees?
When I am teaching continuing education courses, this is a question I get a lot. It comes in light of the Bostock v. Clayton County case that was decided by the US Supreme Court last year and …
[Read more...] about Can Employers Have Religious Objections to Hiring LGBTQ Workers? [VIDEO]
