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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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AI fluency is about to be as common as knowing how to use email. It's not a specialist role you hire for, it's a baseline skill every person in your business needs, and the training costs far less than you think. The problem isn't that your people aren't using AI. They already are. The problem is that nobody has told them what's allowed, what's off limits, and who to ask. In this episode, Kerri walks through: Why AI skills belong to everyone now, not just your tech person (70% of job sk...
The job title on your org chart is not the job. LinkedIn says 70% of the skills your people use today will change by 2030, and AI is pulling tasks out of every role every month. If you're planning your workforce around titles and job descriptions you haven't updated in years, you're planning around a document that was already wrong. In this episode, Kerri walks through: Why 9.9 out of 10 compensation outliers turn out to be a title problem, not a pay problemWhy she now runs the job desc...
No policy doesn't mean no AI. It just means you don't know where it's happening. Your team is already using AI, probably on personal accounts, and most of them aren't telling you about it. AI governance sounds like a Fortune 500 word, but at a 30-person company it's four things you can put in place this month. In this episode, Kerri walks through: What governance actually means once you strip the boardroom out of it: a purpose, an owner, and a rhythmThe one-page usage policy, and what b...
You've heard of FOMO. This is FOBO: the fear of becoming obsolete. Add technostress, the exhaustion of a new tool every week, and you get employees who either refuse to touch AI or use it quietly on personal accounts and never tell you. Your AI rollout doesn't stall because the tool is wrong. It stalls because nobody addressed the humans. In this episode, Kerri walks through: What technostress and FOBO actually are, and why naming them changes the conversationWhy the facts don't calm the fear...
AI is coming for the clerical layer of management, not the leadership layer. Approving PTO, copying last year's review template, building the schedule, chasing status updates - that's the half of the job that's going away, and honestly, good. What's left is the job managers were actually hired to do, and the job most of them were never trained to do. In this episode, Kerri walks through: What AI genuinely takes off a manager's plate today, from first-draft performance reviews to one-on-one pr...
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