A toxic workplace isn’t always about bad bosses—it can also stem from “nice” leadership that lacks boundaries, avoids conflict, or creates e

Learn how to build healthy workplace relationships and set clear boundaries in small businesses. Create a thriving, respectful team in 2025.

Our own Deanna Baumgardner was featured on Authority-Medium Magazine's blog to discuss Navigating Workplace Toxicity to Healthier Space

Get Ahead of the Holiday Hustle and Support Your Team. How to make sure you avoid burnout with your team.

Deanna Baumgardner was interviewed by ValiantCEO Magazine to ask her about her experience, failures and how to build a resilient team.

Move from Excuseville to Example City USA and take responsibility for your actions, recognize the need to step out of your comfort zone...

The one constant is change. Particularly in business. As a leader or small business owner, you have to constantly be thinking...

Let’s take a minute and talk about what is a Fractional Chief of Staff – a professional Chief of Staff who you could hire on a full time or part time basis, and they can act as an advisor and support executives or leaders in an organization. The fractional part allows the person to be outside of the organization and provide a bird’s eye view of the organization to better provide strategy to the executives within the company.

As part of this series, Medium interviewed Deanna Baumgardner, President and Owner of Employers Advantage LLC.

Organizational Trust is the confidence of our workforce in the actions of your company. While this may include confidence in individual managers, it also extends to the overall organization including your vision, culture, and values. There are 5 dimensions to organizational trust.

Throughout my career, I have found that the best form of coaching is through examples and experiences. There is a unique way to use what...

Do you sometimes feel like your message is not just getting across? That for some reason or another your meetings or employee interactions are just not as productive as they could be. Perhaps it is not so much how you’re speaking, but how you are listening.

As a business owner or leader, you never want to hear, “an employee is injured.” So, when you do hear those words, what do you do? In this short article, we are going to cover the steps necessary to ensure you have an effective process in place if/when an employee is involved in a workplace accident, injury, or illness. By establishing a process before the need arises, you will be able to facilitate the care for employees and stay compliant throughout the event. First and fo

Featured by Market Scale, Deanna Baumgardner discussed the over-emphasized position of diversity and inclusion managers. This position...

It is that time of year again! While many people like to spend this time focusing on Christmas shopping, meal planning, holiday...

Quiet quitting, what is it? What can employers do to avoid it? In this article, Breezy.HR reached out to eight HR professionals to weigh...

When it comes to running a small business, it can be overwhelming to know what resources to use or even knowing what resources you need. ...

You may have read the title and thought, “Legos and HR? What is this about, what is the correlation?” Just stick with us and we’ll show...

Our hearts are breaking from the devastation that Hurricane Ian has caused in Florida, particularly in Southwest Florida where I grew up...

featuring HR Business Partner Shannon Curtis For years the financial industry has been focusing on building wealth by designing corporate...