Ah, the week from hell. Did you ever wake-up and realize that you are living a life of clichés? For those that don’t know a cliché is, Webster’s defines it as:
A trite expression, often a figure of speech whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity.
Cliché #1 - When it [...]

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Letting go — two very simple words that shouldn’t require much effort. Except for someone like me, who considers control one of my five daily food groups.
It started this weekend while back-to-school shopping with my daughter. We were looking at backpacks and I pointed out a Justin Bieber and really cute [...]

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My family and I just returned from four days in Las Vegas - my husband and I were renewing our wedding vows with Elvis. Too much partying and when I got home I could have slept for a week. On Sunday morning I realized that I haven’t been the picture of health for [...]

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We talk a lot at Eliza about accountability and ownership. It is even one of the criteria that we rate employees against when evaluating their performance. This concept really hit home for me this week when an incident happened with my daughter, who is in the fifth grade.
All the elementary classes at her school were [...]

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I have written in past blogs about cultivating an exciting environment at Eliza and how we as a company are always striving to innovate and improving upon what we know and do.
As an HR professional, I don’t claim to know it all, and one way we try to keep our edge is to check out what other [...]

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WOW! I know that word doesn’t quite explain the feeling of having your company and president mentioned (several times) in HR Magazine, but it is about all I can come up with.
SHRM, which is the Society of Human Resources Management, is a great organization (I actually belong to the Austin chapter) that has been around [...]

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Let me start off by saying that I LOVE my job.  I am one of those people who knew at an early age what I wanted to do in life and have been lucky enough to get paid for doing what I am passionate about.
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Dawn, setting up an impromptu omelette breakfast
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Recruiting is a true art form - although [...]

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