Don't Waste the Chaos
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.
Don't Waste the Chaos
Latest Episodes
Culture & Engagement - Why It's the Most Misunderstood Part of HR
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 walks through:
Leadership Development for Small Business — The Skills No One Teaches Your Managers
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 individual contributor into m...
Workforce Planning for Small Business - How to Hire Before You're Drowning
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 system that gets you ah...
HR Metrics Every Small Business Should Track
"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 categori...
Small Business Benefits That Actually Compete
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 flexibility, not the packa...
