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How Can You Strengthen Your Onboarding Approach?
Effective onboarding sets the tone for a new hire’s experience within an organization. Additionally, a thoughtful onboarding program presents significant organizational benefits, including reduced turnover, increased productivity, and a stronger company culture. This blog includes several methods for strengthening your onboarding approach and testimonies from three of our newest FMPers, Julia Dillon, Molly VanDorick, and…
FMP Spotlight: IDEA Team
As we approach the close of Black History Month, our Spotlight team turned to FMP’s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) team to hear the latest on what they’ve been working on, and what’s in store for 2024. In this blog, FMP Managing Consultant Lesley Perkins, who leads the IDEA team, shares the meaning of…
Employee Spotlight: Ashley Dorsett
Let’s get to know Ashley! Ashley was born to a military family in Bad Windsheim, Germany, before moving and settling in Madison, Alabama. Ashley received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and received her M.S. in Counseling and Student Development from Kansas State University. Keep reading to learn more…
Practices to Maximize your DEIA Learning Curriculum
Over the past few years, the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) has been at the forefront of many minds. Despite this, unfortunately “checking the box” on implementing DEIA initiatives continues to be a pervasive issue. Instead of making meaningful and systemic changes to policies, processes, and programs, organizations often complete performative, compliance-focused,…
A Guide to Maximizing Your SIOP 2024 Virtual Experience
The Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) annual conference is right around the corner (April 17-20, 2024). With early registration closing on February 23rd, Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychologists, practitioners, and students face a big decision: “Should I attend virtually or in person?” Both options have their perks; it’s hard to beat the convenience, flexibility, and…
Strategies for Mentoring: Take it from a Mentor!
Providing advice and guidance and teaching technical skills across FMP has been a positive and great experience for me. When I first started mentoring, I started with a Power BI mentor group, and I held multiple monthly sessions on how to leverage Power BI to build visualizations. Now, I’m mentoring even more people on other…
New Year, Better You – Let’s Talk about Mentoring!
At FMP, we tend to take professional development pretty seriously. After all, we design, develop, and implement learning programs of all shapes and sizes for our clients. But when it comes to our FMP Mentoring Program, we place a lot of energy and emphasis on ensuring that our program effectively matches mentors and mentees to…
All About FMP’s Internship Program
What kind of interns does FMP hire? FMP hires Human Capital interns each summer. Most often, these interns are partially through graduate school and are seeking work experience as part of their graduate program. Interns can come from a number of different programs, but most commonly they come from Industrial Organizational Psychology (I-O) programs, as…
Employee Spotlight: Sabrina Cushing
Today’s Spotlight is on Sabrina Cushing. Sabrina is originally from Virginia, but moved to Tampa, Florida with her mom and sister when she was four. She holds a master’s in industrial-organizational psychology from George Mason University and is a Human Capital Consultant here at FMP. Keep reading to get to know Sabrina! What are your…
My Better Together Conference Experience and Key Takeaways
This past October, I virtually attended the Better Together Conference hosted by Jennifer Brown Consulting and Better Man Movement. This conference was engaging, educational, and inspiring. In the spirit of practicing my own diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) allyship through action, I am sharing my experience here on our blog. During the two-day conference,…