You’re not imagining it. The passive-aggressive colleague, the indecisive manager, the drama-magnet employee—they’re draining your energy, eating up your time, and making you question your own professionalism. You try everything: documenting, rehearsing, venting, apologizing. But the same conflicts keep popping up, and you’re left wondering if it’s you.

Here’s the truth:

The problem isn’t you. It’s the strategies you’ve been given don’t work for the 2025 workplace. “Just talk it out,” “set boundaries,” “take the high road” all worked well in 1972 and sound good, but in today’s world, they rarely solve the problem.

That’s why we created this masterclass: How to Deal with Employees Who Love to Argue and Debate Everything

Date: Wednesday, June 11
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern, 10:00 AM Pacific
Duration: 90 minutes
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This isn’t another TED Talk or theory session. People expert Brenda Neckvatal will give you real-world tactics that shift power dynamics, defuse chaos, and help you reclaim your peace of mind.

You’ll learn how to:

• Stop conversations from going sideways before they start

• Cut through emotional fog and get people to listen

• Set boundaries that actually stick

• Read the real problem behind what people are saying

• Use empathy as a power tool (not a weakness)

• Respond to emotional outbursts without losing your cool

• Know when to step in, when to walk away, and how to lead through it all

Bonus: Bring Your Battle to Brenda

Get live, actionable advice from Brenda Neckvatal—a Human Results powerhouse with 30+ years of experience helping 1,000+ leaders and 700+ businesses. Bring your toughest conflict scenario and leave with a real solution.

Who should attend?

Anyone tired of chaos, drama, and wasted energy:

• HR leaders

• Managers

• Business owners

• Executives

• Customer-facing professionals

Ready to take your power back?

Register now for “How to Deal with Employees Who Love to Argue and Debate Everything.”

About Brenda Neckvatal:

Brenda is an award-nominated HR expert and business consultant with 30 years of experience, including work with six Fortune 500 companies and over 600 C-suite executives. She’s helped leaders in all industries solve their toughest people problems—and she’s ready to help you.

Bonus: This event is pre-approved for 1.5 HRCI General CEU and 1.5 SHRM PDC credits.

Don’t let another week go by stuck in the same patterns.
Register today and reclaim your peace at work.

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Also, don’t forget to register for HR Vision ’25! Get your registration in ASAP

If you need a plan for 2025, this is the place for you to be! Learn more and register here: HR Vision ’25

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Tomorrow is the day! Join HRLearns as we host Brenda Neckvatal as she helps people

• Understand the traits of narcissism
• Recognizing manipulative behavior
• Developing strategies for dealing with a narcissistic employee
• How to provide clear direction and feedback
• Learn to avoid enabling narcissistic behavior

This will be well worth your time to attend! Register at HRLearns.

About our speaker:

Brenda Neckvatal is an international award-winning HR professional and two time Best Selling Author. Not only does she help business leaders get the people side of their business right, she is a specialist in crisis management, government contracting HR compliance, and mentor to rising entrepreneurs, business leaders, HR champions and professionals.

Brenda has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc, as well as US News and World Reports. She started as an HR sprout after a solid fourteen-year career in retail management. She really enjoys helping people solve their unique problems, and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers more. Having the benefit of working for six Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into advising her audience to use tried and trusted best practices that help small businesses achieve their workforce goals.

In her combined 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted to over 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs associated with making hasty employment-related decisions.

She has been involved with employee situations where they have engaged in workplace violence, a near stabbing, deliberately inciting fear in other coworkers, stalking women, breaches of protocol around national security,  assault, suicide, death, homicide, and a potential active shooter.

Brenda is a devoted volunteer in the Navy SEAL Community and is constantly finding new ways of supporting veterans of Naval Special Warfare. She dedicates 32 weeks a year working with The Honor Foundation to support the career transition of Special Forces personnel by providing them with her knowledge, insight, and creativity.

Perseverance, integrity, and relentless optimism are just a few of the ingredients that make up what you experience when meeting and working with Brenda.

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Kara Kelley SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is offering a workshop that Victoria Purser and I think could be a game-changer for anyone considering the transition from corporate HR to independent consulting.

Here’s what you’ll walk away with:

A defined set of services that truly reflect your expertise, including your Signature Service

A clear understanding of your ideal clients and how to connect with them

A sustainable business model and pricing strategy that works for you

A strong positioning statement to help you stand out in the market

A marketing strategy tailored to attract the clients you actually want to work with

A seamless onboarding process to set the stage for long-term success

Date: August 20, 2024

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Location: Zoom Webinar

PRE-APPROVED for HRCI and SHRM recertification credit.

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I’m so grateful to DisruptHR St. Helier for letting me come and share this important message!

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On Saturday, May 6 or Wednesday, June 7 join me and a maximum of 5 of your colleagues for a workshop that will help you prepare to be your best at an an interview! Learn some tips and tricks and get a chance to practice! Click here to register: Job Interview Workshop

If you need to update your resume, or you really don’t even know how to get started, this is the workshop for you! With a small group (maximum 6 people) work through how best to word things and what you need to do to catch hiring manager’s eyes!

Held on either Monday, May 8 or Saturday, June 10, you can click here to register: Resume Workshop

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Sign up quick!

The only thing worse than staying in a toxic job is writing a new resume. With this resume writing workshop, you’ll learn how to make your resume stand out. You’ll learn everything you need to:

• Build your own professional resume
• Include the right things and leave out the wrong things
• Write what hiring managers want to see
• Beat the applicant tracking system (ATS)
• Make your resume readable and understandable

In this small group workshop (maximum attendance is six), you’ll get hands on work on your own resume. Come prepared with your current copy and at least three job postings that interest you.

Register over at EventBrite: Resume Workshop

If interviewing makes you feel awkward and fake, you’re not alone. But practice makes perfect, and there are things you can do to make yourself more confident. You know you can do the job–you just have to learn to express it!

In this small group workshop (maximum of six participants), you can learn how to answer questions, pitch yourself, and be confident about your skills.

Register over at EventBrite: Job Interview Workshop

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Are you thinking about finding a new job and want to get your resume updated, but you feel stuck? This two-hour workshop will get your resume where it needs to be to land your next job!

Dates:

Thursday, January 19 at 1:00 Eastern

Monday, January 30 at 5:00 Eastern

Saturday, February 4 at 10:00 Eastern

Hop over to Eventbrite to register!

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