{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The HR Life Podcast","title":"EP 59 An HR Department of One, the Wild Wild West, and Almost Quit with Claire Lizear","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5529,"description":"Claire Lazaire is back for round two, and this time she's traded corporate HR for something she calls the wild, wild west: running HR solo across fifteen entities and four owners in an industry so new it barely has a rulebook yet. She talks about the year she almost walked away from HR entirely, what changed her mind, and how rewriting an entire employee handbook in her first month (attorneys included) turned into rolling out a full performance management program for a company pushing 300 employees nationwide. What does it actually take to build HR from scratch while the business is already running at full speed, and why did an industry with zero playbook end up giving her more real HR work than a decade in corporate ever did?\nShe also picks a fight worth having: is there any real standard for what makes an HR professional good at their job, or is the whole profession just winging it based on whoever happens to be in the room? Claire, Tony, and Steve dig into what the \"people ops\" trend really means for who owns strategy inside a company, and why a thirty person business trying to stand up a full DEI program might be one of the more avoidable mistakes in HR this year. Is your HR function actually built for the size of your business, or is it running someone else's playbook?\nLearn more about Claire Lizear at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clizear/ \nLearn more about Fantastic Tony Benjamin at: https://www.thegrangellc.com/\nLearn more about Steven \"Big Deal\" Smith at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/\nLearn more about the Books mentioned on the podcast at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/hr-life-podcast\nLearn More about the Netflix film Titan at: https://www.netflix.com/title/81712178\nLearn more about Dyno Outfitters at: https://www.utahviaferrata.com/\nLearn more about MegastarHR at: https://www.megastarhr.com/\nLearn more about Pucks for Autism at: https://www.pucksforautism.com/\nLearn more about Thrive Life Project at: https://www.thrivelifeproject.org/\nClaire Lizear,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Dg1nikgNIIIBiQCUsnJo4wpEX5v9Sjy5XBFpDEL2i2A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jODk0/MWQzOTZhY2IyMDVi/ODhhMWZmY2EyZTFl/ZGU0Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}