I Hate It Here Hebba Youssef

Feeling stuck in your career?
You’re not alone. Join Hebba and special guest Tori Lazar, a strategic storyteller and executive coach, as they discuss how to recognize career quagmires and turn stalemates into personal growth. 
What are the top three warning signs of career unhappiness, and how can leaders be more personally aware of their own internal red flags? Tori shares insights on tapping into your inner child, overcoming fear, and pinpointing the source of unhappiness in your current career. 
Tori and Hebba also discuss the fine art of not giving @#$! about what people think of you. How can you get over the fear of not being liked and still advocate for the employees who may view you as public enemy #1? They dive into the role of HR professionals in advocating for employees and explain how to maintain a positive work culture and persevere through the constant barrage of criticism that’s synonymous with the job. 
 
00:02:37 - Tori Lazar: Strategic Storyteller and Executive Coach
00:03:13 - Optimizing Your Time
00:07:13 - Top 3 Signs of Being Stuck in Your Career
00:21:51 - Gen Z Challenges Workplace Norms
00:27:24 - Advocating for Every Employee 
00:34:57 - Overcoming Fear in Unfulfilling Careers
00:41:23 - Harnessing Childhood Experiences to Build Confidence
00:43:17 - How Practice Builds Confidence in Overcoming Fear
00:47:23 - Why Great Leaders Need Great HR Departments
00:51:40 - Identifying Unhappiness in HR Careers
 
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Why do employees quit? 
Compensation, growth opportunities, and environment are usually the top 3 reasons cited. 
But what does all that actually mean to the employees and is there anything HR can really do to stop employees from fleeing? 
Jessica returns to sit down with Hebba to clear up what growth actually means, the biggest misconceptions about compensation, and red flags to look out for to identify toxic cultures. You’ll hear their take on why counter-offers shouldn’t be a regular practice and if it's even worth trying to recover an employee who is ready to jump ship. 
Plus, stay tuned as Hebba and Jessica later discuss navigating conflict in toxic work environments and learning valuable lessons from employee exit interviews.
  
00:00:00 - Navigating Employee Turnover in HR
00:02:27 - Building a Career Coaching Empire
00:07:22 - Three Pillars That Drive Employee Turnover
00:11:00 - Redefining Growth Beyond Promotions
00:17:22 - Fostering Healthy Growth Through Transparency
00:24:44 - Why Counter Offers Don't Work
00:32:07 - Advocating for Better Employee Experiences
00:33:06 - Recognizing Toxic Work Environments: Red Flags
00:36:23 - Can HR Fix Toxic Workplaces?

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Whether employers like it or not, greater pay transparency is the future. So why do HR leaders need to start embracing pay transparency rather than fearing it?  
Lulu Seikaly, a senior corporate employment attorney with Payscale, sheds light on the topic in a candid conversation with Hebba about the impact of pay transparency laws on employees, the challenges employers face when implementing them, and the future of pay transparency on a global and local scale.
How has Gen Z become the poster child for greater pay transparency practices? Why are employers so darn afraid to post salary ranges? And should employees who live in high-cost-of-living areas earn more than their coworkers? 
Lulu chats with Hebba about the rights that employees have in relation to pay transparency and offers advice for companies navigating these laws. She also explains how pay transparency is vital to building a better workplace culture and one of the foremost things HR departments can do to create change for underrepresented groups. 
Join in on this informative and thought-provoking discussion as Lulu and Hebba explore the evolving landscape of pay transparency and its implications for organizations and employees.
 
The Predictive Index (PI) is an award-winning talent optimization platform that aligns business strategy with people strategy for optimal business results. More than 60 years of proven science, software, and a curriculum of insightful management workshops make PI the solution for any company looking to design great teams and culture, make objective hiring decisions, foster engagement, and inspire greatness in their people anywhere in the world. More than 10,000 clients and 480+ partners use PI—including Nissan, Citizens Bank, Subway, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Omni Hotels—across 90+ countries. Learn more at https://www.predictiveindex.com/.
 
01:35 Pay Transparency Laws
07:30 How the Rest of the World Deals with Pay Transparency
10:20 Challenges to Implementing Pay Transparency
16:10 Why Employers Are Afraid of Posting Salary Ranges
24:20 Adhering to Pay Transparency Laws
30:51 Why HR Gets Such a Bad Rap
34:00 Tearing Down the Gender Pay Gap
37:12 The Right to Disconnect Law & the European Work Ethos
41:20 Location Agnostic Pay Ranges
49:20 The Future of Paid Transparency
52:01 Eliminating Bias in Promotions
 
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 “How much do you make?” 
It’s the one question that sends chills up corporate spines and the one question every employee is secretly dying to ask one another. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if pay was… *gasp* actually transparent?
Meet the viral TikTok sensation daring to bring pay transparency to the forefront of the social media conversation, Hannah Williams.
Sick of corporate America making employees feel powerless in the pay cycle, Hannah’s viral TikTok series, “Salary Transparent Street” set out to tear down the pay transparency wall by encouraging strangers to disclose all the dirty deets of exactly how much they make. 
She chats with Hebba about how her personal experience of being underpaid sparked a social media revolution and inspired her to fight back against discriminatory employment practices and pay gaps disproportionately affecting women, POC, disabled communities, and LQBTQIA+ groups. 
Together, Hannah and Hebba break down strategies for setting pay bands in a fair and earnest way, discuss why employers are so scared of people talking about pay, and reveal how budget-strapped employers can think outside of the box when it comes to negotiations. 
  
The Predictive Index (PI) is an award-winning talent optimization platform that aligns business strategy with people strategy for optimal business results. More than 60 years of proven science, software, and a curriculum of insightful management workshops make PI the solution for any company looking to design great teams and culture, make objective hiring decisions, foster engagement, and inspire greatness in their people anywhere in the world.
More than 10,000 clients and 480+ partners use PI—including Nissan, Citizens Bank, Subway, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Omni Hotels—across 90+ countries. Learn more at https://www.predictiveindex.com/.

 00:05:50 - Revolutionizing Salary Transparency in Content
00:08:18 - Transparency Leads to Higher Earnings
00:14:35 - Pay Transparency Legislation Also Aids Equality
00:22:05 - Gen Z Advocates for Pay Transparency
00:34:25 - Increasing Employee Motivation with Pay Transparency
00:39:33 - Revisiting Employee Pay Levels for Success
00:45:52 - Employers Fear Being Recorded by Employees
00:49:21 - Hannah’s Shark Tank Experience
00:52:38 - Interviewing Top Content Creators
 
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Puberty. Periods. Motherhood. Menopause.  
Let's be real—women go through a lot of challenging life stages. So why then, do employee benefits often feel like a one-size-fits-all? How can HR find a way to help women throughout all stages of their life, in a way where they feel fully supported?
Hebba sits down with Isha Vij, Vice President of Sales at Maven Clinic, a digital health organization focused on women’s and family health, to chat about the challenges and solutions surrounding women’s health benefits in the workplace.
What are the logistical challenges to supporting IVF and fertility treatments? If cost is a major impediment to fertility support, how then, can employers still show support for employees in their family-building journey? Isha and Hebba discuss how current access to reproductive care is often insufficient and explain the massive impact reproductive and family benefits can have on workers’ happiness.   
And later, Isha explains how Maven Clinic supports women beyond family planning and into menopause. Why is menopause often so poorly understood? With symptoms like insomnia, brain fog, hot flashes, and pain, what can employers do to ensure women receive proper support through this oft-misunderstood life event? She explains why the status quo simply isn’t enough and how Maven is seeking to revolutionize things. 
 
The Predictive Index (PI) is an award-winning talent optimization platform that aligns business strategy with people strategy for optimal business results. More than 60 years of proven science, software, and a curriculum of insightful management workshops make PI the solution for any company looking to design great teams and culture, make objective hiring decisions, foster engagement, and inspire greatness in their people anywhere in the world. More than 10,000 clients and 480+ partners use PI—including Nissan, Citizens Bank, Subway, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Omni Hotels—across 90+ countries. Learn more at https://www.predictiveindex.com/.
 
Snappy is the award-winning B2B gifting platform that takes all of the guesswork out of gifting and helps companies build cultures of gratitude and appreciation. Send gifts to anyone (employees, customers, co-workers) for any occasion (birthdays, holidays, Employee Appreciation Day - coming up March 1, hint hint!). Choose the perfect gift from Snappy’s extensive gifting catalog, create custom swag, or send gift options and let them pick! They put in their own address, and Snappy takes care of the rest. It’s fast, easy, and delightful! 
 Go to https://www.snappy.com/ihateithere to sign up for free and start gifting today.
 
00:00:25 - Digital Health VP Talks HR Challenges
00:10:13 - Balancing Work and Motherhood Expectations
00:19:03 - Employer Support for Fertility Treatments
00:23:36 - Accessing Fertility Treatments: Major Challenges
00:30:31 - Creating a Consolidated Benefits System
00:34:28 - The Importance of Access to Virtual Healthcare
00:37:59 - Workplace Benefits for Menopausal Women

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Too often, HR is expected to bet the jack of all trades for a business. But what do you do when it leaves you feeling like a master of none?
Hebba sits down with Sarah Rose Hattem, a former HR team of one and currently a Senior HR Consultant for Rippling, to discuss the challenges of being a one-person HR department. How, as a one-person department, can you more effectively communicate your value to leaders who may not view you as a primary function of the business? 
Sarah Rose shares why utilizing technology to streamline day-to-day processes is absolutely critical for better time management and reveals the top HR tools she simply couldn’t function without. Then, she dives into some of her most time-tested strategies for better task prioritization before unpacking the nuances balancing the needs of the business with the mission-critical tasks that need to be done. 
  
The Predictive Index (PI) is an award-winning talent optimization platform that aligns business strategy with people strategy for optimal business results. More than 60 years of proven science, software, and a curriculum of insightful management workshops make PI the solution for any company looking to design great teams and culture, make objective hiring decisions, foster engagement, and inspire greatness in their people anywhere in the world. More than 10,000 clients and 480+ partners use PI—including Nissan, Citizens Bank, Subway, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Omni Hotels—across 90+ countries. Learn more at https://www.predictiveindex.com/.
 
Snappy is the award-winning B2B gifting platform that takes all of the guesswork out of gifting and helps companies build cultures of gratitude and appreciation. Send gifts to anyone (employees, customers, co-workers) for any occasion (birthdays, holidays, Employee Appreciation Day - coming up March 1, hint hint!). Choose the perfect gift from Snappy’s extensive gifting catalog, create custom swag, or send gift options and let them pick! They put in their own address, and Snappy takes care of the rest. It’s fast, easy, and delightful! 
 Go to https://www.snappy.com/ihateithere to sign up for free and start gifting today.
 
00:01:09 - Sarah Rose Hattem’s HR Journey
00:03:15 - Balancing HR Responsibilties
00:06:47 - Efficient Time Management Tips for HR Teams
00:14:12 - Balancing HR Functions as a Team of One
00:19:37 - Leveraging Technology for a One-Person HR Team
00:26:25 - Elevating HR's Role in Business
00:36:00 - Balancing Business and People Needs
00:38:47 - Surviving Difficult Days in HR
00:41:01 - How to Connect with Sarah Rose
 
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