Join the 'Hints from HR' Crew (Nicolle, Billy & Becca) and our 'How to Speak Maintenance' host, Jason Fein, for our finale episode of 2023! We're diving deep into the trends and challenges that shaped this year and getting a sneak peek into what's on the horizon for 2024. TAAEF's live series, 'Hints from HR,' is your go-to source for insights from HR Professionals and multifamily experts. Tune in to nurture your most precious assets – your people!

Join us for a new episode of "Hints from HR" as we take a deep dive into the world of assessments as a crucial tool for talent acquisition and retention. In this episode, we're exploring strategies for maximizing assessment tools. Join the "Hints Crew" Nicolle Brennan Gaffney-Block, Billy Griffin and Becca Ramati as we welcome our special guest, Deldric Comeaux from Morgan to share his insights from their program with The Culture Index!

Join us as we discuss the importance of “intentional training” with the Hints from HR Crew (Nicolle Block, Brookfield Properties, Blaise Spitaleri, Gemstar and TAA’s Becca Ramati) with our guest Thomas Marmolejo, Camden Property Trust. We’ll be discussing the new Maintenance Apprenticeship Guide launched by TAAEF and Camden’s own experience with a very intentional maintenance training program.

Join us for another episode of "Hints from HR" today as we discuss the importance of onboarding and why onboarding definitely isn't orientation. Our guest today is AG Living's Christi Wedel and she joins the Hints from HR crew, Nicolle Brennan Gaffney-Block, Billy Griffin and Becca Ramati for another great conversation.

Join us for a new episode of “Hints from HR” as Kara Rice with Swift Bunny joins today's Hints crew, Nicolle Block and Becca Ramati to talk about how recruiting is the new marketing! How everyone should be responsible for recruiting new talent to the industry no matter if "recruit" is in their title or not! The Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation (TAAEF) presents this series where HR professionals share tips and tricks for employers and job seekers! Stay tuned each month fo...

Check out our latest episode of Hints from HR with Nicolle Block and Becca Ramati where we discuss cross-training with Josh Haynes from Madera Residential. This was a great discussion touching on #professionaldevelopment, #companyculture #careerpathplanning and much more.

We’re excited to have Melissa Rhoades, Talent Acquisition Advisor with Greystar join the Hints from HR crew to talk about changing the mindset on recruiting and hiring. Join us as we chat about bringing new people into the rental housing industry without the old recruiting expectations!

Hints from HR is back! We've added another co-host and are excited to welcome Billy Griffin to the Hints from HR crew along with Nicolle Block, Blaise Spitaleri, CAS and Becca Ramati. Please enjoy our first conversation of 2023 as we welcome Billy, talk about upcoming topics, resources available from TAAEF, trends we're seeing in multifamily right now and more!

Lissi Daniels with Madera Residential joins Nicolle, Blaise, and Becca as we talk about training, virtual fatigue and how "telling isn't training"! This episode was recorded in February 2022.

Recorded on July 15, 2021, this episode of Hints from HR focuses on burnout! Are you feeling burnt out? Are your employees? On this episode of "Hints from HR" we check in and see how everyone is doing as things "return to normal" and what we can do to help as employers and colleagues as we move through another new (and hopefully final) phase of this pandemic! It was so great having the "Hints from HR" crew together in-person!

Keeping your employees engaged and happy is one of the most important roles of a leader. Yet, we often only ask for their feedback only as employees are leaving? This month we brought back HR professional, Rachel Kleban, to discuss the "stay interview." Rachel has 20+ years of HR experience in retail and technology and provides good insight for us all.

One of the number one issues for recruiters and HR professionals is candidate ghosting! We discuss this scary trend with Sam Keller, Vice President of Staffing with Quarterra Group to talk discuss conversations to be had, with candidates and internally, to try and stop it.

Everyone is looking for new talent but are you looking in the right places and thinking about recruiting in the right way? Join the Hints from HR crew and our guest Becca Brown with InterSolutions. As the workforce changes are we changing to keep up?

Join us for Hints from HR as we talk to Paul Rhodes with Brookfield Properties about appreciating our maintenance teams. Spoiler alert - another pizza party won't cut it. Great content from Paul who is always fun to talk with. You'll enjoy this important conversation.

We're back with another episode of Hints from HR with Nicolle Brennan Gaffney-Block and Becca Ramati as we welcome back Jen Piccotti with Swift Bunny! Today we're talking about employee engagement and how companies do a better job of keeping their people happy, growing and motivated!

We're excited to have Dana Duckworth join us for Hints from HR today. Dana Duckworth is DEI & Social Impact Specialist with Zumper. Join us as we dive into this important conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion.

Everyone is looking for talent and recruiting is more important than ever. Is your elevator pitch ready to go? Can you and your team talk about your company in a meaningful way that represents your mission, culture, values, benefits etc.? We’ll be talking about how to craft your elevator speech in an authentic and thoughtful way that is right for you and your company. Join Nicolle Block, Becca Ramati and our special guest, Sarah Turner with Olympus Property.

The Hints crew, Nicolle Block, Blaise Spitaleri and Becca Ramati are looking outside of multifamily to hear hints from HR from the retail and tech worlds. Rachel Kleban has 20+ years of experience in HR including time at Gap Inc., Airbnb and VSCO. As an HR Consultant now, Rachel is focused on performance reviews that are helpful, aren't biased and provide clarity and accountability for teams.

Join us as we chat with our guest Jen Piccotti with Swift Bunny. We're talking about why mental health is health! Jen worked on NAA's Mental and Emotional Health Survey released in December and she'll share the takeaways with us and what the multifamily industry needs to do to support it's current and future employees as we continue to live and work through difficult times.

Join the Hints from HR crew as we take a look back at our first year of the series. We'll talk about the trends we saw over the year, favorite episodes and what we look forward to talking about next!