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Don't Waste the Chaos is a weekly podcast for small business owners and HR professionals who want practical, no-nonsense people strategy. Host Kerri M. Roberts is an HR strategist, consultant, and founder of Salt & Light Advisors with 20+ years of experience turning reactive HR into proactive systems. Each Tuesday, she breaks down hiring, onboarding, compliance, culture, and leadership - the kind of strategy that typically costs thousands in consulting, delivered in under 40 minutes. If you're managing people and want to do it better, this show is for you. New episode every Tuesday. Learn more about the show and Kerri at www.kerrimroberts.com.
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A policy isn't permission - it's protection. Your team is already using AI; the only question is whether you've told them the rules. Someone may be pasting compensation data or a Social Security number into a chatbot rig
Where do you start with AI in HR? Not with everything — that's how implementation goes sideways. In this solo episode, Kerri Roberts gives you the five specific HR tasks to automate first, a human checkpoint for each one
The question isn't whether you should use AI in HR - it's whether your HR function is ready for it. AI multiplies whatever foundation it's sitting on, so before you add a single tool, you need to know where you actually
Your HR tech is only as good as the process behind it. Most small businesses are running payroll, time tracking, benefits, and onboarding across three to six disconnected tools — the data doesn't talk, nobody owns the wh
Culture isn't what you say - it's what you do, consistently and under pressure. Everybody wants to talk about culture, but you can't build a healthy one without the HR foundation underneath it. In this episode, Kerri wal
Being excellent at the work doesn't make someone excellent at leading people in the work - they're two completely different skill sets, and almost no one teaches the second. Most small businesses promote their best indiv
Reactive hiring creates desperate hiring, and desperate hiring creates bad hiring decisions. Most small businesses only hire when they're already drowning - the worst possible time to hire well. Workforce planning is the
"We don't have a lot of turnover" is a feeling, not data - and feelings aren't a strategy. If you can't say when your people left or why, you're making decisions blind. In this episode, Kerri walks through: • The five ca
You're not failing your employees because you can't offer the big, comprehensive benefits package. People leave six-figure jobs for smaller employers all the time - because they stay for stability, trust, respect, and fl
Performance management isn't about reviews — it's about clarity. If your team is confused, resentful, or underperforming, it's an expectations problem, not a motivation problem. Most employees aren't failing to meet the
One employee asks for time off and you say yes. Another asks three weeks later and you say no. Neither of you realizes you just created a discrimination claim. In Part 6 of the HR Foundations series, Kerri breaks down le
Are your salaried employees actually classified correctly under federal law — or are you sitting on overtime liability without knowing it? Most small business owners don't realize there's a three-part exemption test unde
Most small and mid-sized businesses don't have an employee handbook problem - they have a "we don't have a policy for that" problem. Scattered Google Drive docs, a handbook from 2017, three managers making three differen
A bad hire costs about 50% of their annual salary in year one - and most of that cost doesn't come from a bad hiring decision. It comes from failed onboarding. If your onboarding looks like paperwork, a quick tour, and "
Think back to the last person who didn't work out in your business. Was it a people problem - or a process problem? Nine times out of ten, it's the process. In this episode, Kerri Roberts walks through the 5 components o
Most small businesses put HR off until later, and then "later" shows up as a lawsuit, a resignation, or a conversation they never saw coming. This episode launches a brand new series: the 13 HR Systems every small busine
You know the conversation I'm talking about. The employee who's consistently late, creating tension, or putting up bare minimum numbers - and every week you find a reason to put it off one more time. Today that ends. In
Most business owners don't realize their HR is broken — until someone quits, files a complaint, or a lawsuit lands on their desk. In this episode, Kerri Roberts breaks down the 5 most common signs that your HR foundation
In this episode of the Don’t Waste the Chaos Podcast, Kerri Roberts challenges a common assumption among entrepreneurs - that lack of focus is the problem. Instead, she reframes the issue as a lack of commitment to the w
In this episode of the Don’t Waste the Chaos Podcast , Kerri Roberts examines a question many founders face too late: when is it actually time to hire? Drawing from her own business over the last three years, she walks t
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