Elevating Human Potential
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Curated Essentials for the Modern People Team
Spotting AI Interviews
Hire the person, not the prompt.
AI has changed how candidates interview. Polished, well-structured answers are easier to fake than ever, and a hire who interviewed like a star can turn out to be someone completely different on day one. That’s an expensive mistake, and it’s happening more often.
This guide gives hiring managers and leaders a practical way to tell when a candidate is relying on AI, and how to interview in a way that reveals real skills and real thinking.
What’s inside:
The verbal and visual red flags of AI-assisted answers
Warning signs in resumes, applications, and take-home work
Interview questions and follow-ups that AI can’t answer for them
How to adjust your process for video interviews
What to do, and what not to do, when you suspect it
Structured Interview Kit & Hiring Scorecard
Better hires start with a better process.
Most bad hires aren’t bad luck. They come from interviews that wander, interviewers who ask different questions, and decisions made on whoever “felt right.” That approach is expensive, inconsistent, and hard to defend if a hiring decision is ever questioned.
This kit gives you the structure that experienced recruiters rely on, ready to use for your next role. Every candidate gets the same fair process, every interviewer knows what they’re evaluating, and every decision is backed by something you can point to.
What’s inside:
A step-by-step guide to running structured interviews
Behavioral and situational question banks organized by competency
A customizable hiring scorecard with clear rating definitions
An interviewer debrief template for comparing candidates side by side
Tips for reducing bias and keeping your process consistent and defensible
Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) Toolkit
Stop avoiding the conversation. Start fixing the problem.
Most managers wait too long to address underperformance. By the time they act, the team is frustrated, the employee is caught off guard, and there’s little documentation to back up the decision. Whether the outcome is turnaround or termination, everyone loses when a PIP is handled poorly.
This toolkit walks you through the process from start to finish: setting clear expectations, documenting progress fairly, and holding conversations that are direct without being demoralizing. Done right, a PIP isn’t a formality before a firing. It’s a genuine chance for someone to succeed.
What’s inside:
A step-by-step guide to deciding when a PIP is the right tool
A customizable PIP template with measurable goals and timelines
Conversation scripts for the initial meeting and check-ins
Progress tracking and documentation templates
Guidance on next steps, whether the employee succeeds or doesn’t
People Ops Health Check
Know where you stand before it costs you.
Most people problems don’t show up all at once. A missing policy, a manager avoiding a hard conversation, pay that’s drifted out of line, a hiring process that’s mostly guesswork. Each one seems small until it becomes quiet quitting, a bad hire, or a legal claim.
The People Ops Health Check is a focused review of how your company handles its people, done by someone who’s spent 20 years fixing these problems. You’ll get an honest picture of what’s working, what’s at risk, and where to put your time and money first.
What we look at:
Compliance: handbook, policies, and state-specific requirements
Hiring: how you find, interview, and select people
Performance: how feedback, reviews, and underperformance are handled
Compensation: whether pay is consistent, competitive, and defensible
Workforce planning: how prepared you are for growth, restructuring, or change
Systems: the tools and workflows behind onboarding, offboarding, and records
What you get:
A written findings report with risks ranked by urgency
A prioritized action plan you can run with on your own or with my help
A walkthrough call to go over results and answer questions
Who it’s for: Founders, CEOs, and leadership teams at growing companies with a junior HR department or no full-time HR leader. It’s especially useful if you’re about to hire, restructure, or raise money, or if you just have a feeling something’s off.
Your
Chief People Officer
I’m Tori Bradford, and for 20 years I’ve been the person companies call when the people side of business gets hard, confusing, or just more than they can handle.
I’ve helped companies grow from 10 to 150 employees and past $10M in revenue across EdTech, PropTech, insurance, construction, retail, fitness, and recruiting. On the other end of the employee life-cycle, I’ve led more layoffs than I can count, and the feedback is always the same: it was handled with care, and no one felt like just a number.
I measure what matters. When the right metrics don’t exist, like quality of hire or culture alignment, I build them.
I partner with leaders who care about their people but don’t have the expertise in-house. I bring 20 years of experience and a love for solving puzzles to help them hit their bottom-line goals through their frontline.
Your bottom line is the job. How we get there is the difference.
SHRM-CP · Certified Transformational Coach · Harrison Assessments Certified
Based near Nashville, serving clients across the U.S. and Canada.
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