Her Story
About Trinita
Trinita Grayson serves as Senior HR Manager in Vance, Alabama, a role she has held since July 2024. Her HR career began in 2005, and she has worked under the same parent company since 2011, starting as office manager and HR liaison in Michigan before advancing to HR manager roles and relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, and then Vance. She earned a bachelor's degree in public resource management from Michigan State University in 1994 and a master's degree in human resources from Indiana Heights University in 1998, along with a postgraduate certification in strategic planning management and an accounting certificate. Grayson is SHRM-CP certified and currently serves as president-elect of the West Alabama SHRM group. She also acts as VP of her HOA board. Grayson emphasizes the importance of communication, flexibility, and valuing employees in her work. She attributes her success to the interpersonal skills developed through employee relations and building relationships. In her view, the biggest challenge in HR is employee retention, while the key opportunity lies in learning all areas of the field, including payroll, benefits, and recruiting, to allow for specialization.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Trinita
01What do you attribute your success to?
Some of the employees themselves, the interpersonal skills that you develop with people, the relationships. Interacting within the employee relations part of it, and getting to know people, it makes it all worthwhile.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
I've always been told it's not what I say, it's how I say it. So, I'm always conscious of when I say stuff because I don't want to offend anybody, so I have to be aware of my communication.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Patience. Be true to yourself, and don't get mixed up in the drama. Just stay focused. You gotta have a standard. You gotta keep your standard at all times.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge is employee retention because people don't have the drive to stay anymore if they're not given what they want. The biggest opportunity is to learn each area of HR including payroll, benefits, and recruiting so you can branch off and specialize.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Communication is very important to me. And flexibility is important. And just valuing the employee, no matter who it is, just having that value for somebody, making them feel right.
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