The PC Intro: A great company culture is vital for engaging your most valuable resources: your employees. It determines who you will attract and retain and if your team is engaged, productive, and effective or just there for the paycheck. This booklet reviews the five pillars of company culture: Values, Feedback, Accountability, Team Unity, and Communication.
The Real Intro: Engage these valuable and expensive employees or lose them. Worse, keep them while they are unengaged, unproductive, and still taking a paycheck anyway (a.k .a. they do the bare minimum).
Want engaged and productive employees? Read this today, then act! This free PDF booklet is also available in audio. Make positive changes, and watch your team become engaged and productive. While ongoing feedback and accountability are essential, do not overlook the value of sincere appreciation and a detailed, specific thank you.
This short management book covers topics ranging from personality styles (how some personality styles rub some people the wrong way) to communication (which almost always goes wrong) and lack of common sense (hold your judgment). Chapter 10 is an “Acting Lesson” that challenges you to change (i.e.: practice new behaviors 15 minutes a day). Currently available in English (audio too) and Spanish. See links above!
This short book is even more direct than the first book and very thought-provoking. It gives you step-by-step instructions on How To Create Company Values as a committee. Why? So you can hold people accountable for their behavior at work! Company values directly influence employee and leadership behavior by setting expectations and shaping the work environment. Wendy Sellers is the Asshole Whisperer. In her consulting and management training sessions and in this book, she leaves you wondering, Am I Part Of The Problem? And yes, there is an activity at the end if you want to take self-help further. Currently available in English (audio too) and Spanish. See links above!
The Art of Connection is an international bestseller series. The 365 Days of Abundance Quotes” book and journal (plus, coming soon: a coloring book) is a very unique collaboration of Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and Influencers – including Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®.
Inside, you’ll discover daily quotes that inspire, questions that challenge, and stories that resonate, each day designed to shift your focus towards abundance. It offers a fresh perspective on how business owners, entrepreneurs, and influencers perceive and cultivate abundance in relationships, purpose, and entrepreneurial growth. Each quote in this collection is crafted to inspire you daily, encouraging a mindset that celebrates success, prosperity, and a deeper appreciation for life’s richness. From redefining success to celebrating small victories, these 365 days will empower you to appreciate and cultivate abundance wherever you are on your journey.
PS: The Art of Connection is now in the Library of Congress!
Excited to share that “The HR Lady” podcast has been honored by The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts! Recognized as an Honoree at The 31st Annual Communicator Awards in the Educational, Distinction 2025 category.
Plus, my podcast has now merged with the HR Empowerment podcast, which I am also the host of. HR Empowerment offers HRCI/ SHRM credits for listening. Check out HR Empowerment for free.
Kudos to my fantastic co-host, Jim Connors (JC). His podcast “Interesting Things with JC” clinched the 2025 Gold Hermes Creative Award for one of its episodes.
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady® – an author, speaker, podcast host, and consultant who focuses on management training and HR training. Her goal is to improve employee retention, reduce turnover, and make it easy to attract candidates to your company. Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady certainly does not sugar-coat!
Email, call, or text Wendy Sellers at 407.493.1582
Amazon review: This is an impactful, concise book. The author has taken basic knowledge that all leaders should know and crafted it into a fun, useful reference book. The subject matter really gets to the core of the topic of what makes a good leader. The critical message is that leaders need to “suck it up” or be courageous and conscientious about the difficult part of being a leader. Communication is a crucial part of leadership. Leaders need to share information with their staff and other stakeholders. By following her tips, leaders can prevent themselves from becoming what she classifies as a bad leader. Bad leaders from her past experience have inspired her to put her knowledge to paper in this book in the hope that it will prevent other leaders from making the same mistakes. She urges leaders to be part of the solution.
Poor leaders lead to decreased company profits. Leaders need to adapt and bring out the best in their staff. To do this, leaders need to be self-aware and note that communication styles differ between people. They need to adapt their own styles if necessary to optimally get through to their staff. Leaders must listen and talk with, not at their staff. She suggests taking on a different personality and communication style to your own for 15 minutes at a time in order to build strong relationships with your staff. Having an open-door policy is also one of her suggestions for creating a good atmosphere in the workplace. The book leaves you feeling positive and hopeful that it’s possible to have mutually beneficial communication and relationships between leaders and their staff. Recommended to all leaders and aspiring leaders.
Wendy Sellers delivers powerful, no-nonsense insights that make you pause and reflect on your leadership and communication style. I appreciate her direct approach, and this book is the perfect follow-up to her first book, Suck it Up Buttercup! Even if you think you’ve already mastered these skills, a slight tweak in your interactions can transform your workplace and elevate your company culture. If you care about your team, peers, clients, or personal relationships, investing just an hour and a few bucks in this book is a game changer. Your ROI will be well worth it!
The leadership concepts and stories of poor management in “The Asshole Whisperer” really resonated with me and some experiences I have been through. The manner which Wendy Sellers delivers these leadership concepts are so simple that I had to kick myself for not making these realizations before. I bought a copy for each of my managers to read and discuss. Our overall company-wide productivity has already increased and we now openly (yet respectfully) call each other out when exhibiting crappy leadership and dealing with jerks in our workplace.
