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Employees are valuing career development more than ever—it’s a sign that the company is willing to invest in their future. How are businesses approaching training today? What are their pain points, and what topics are being addressed in training?
For millions of office workers across the United States and beyond, a major silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the widespread shift to remote work. The convenience, comfort, flexibility, and ability to spend more time with pets and family have meant that working from home—or even from a tropical beach or an exotic […]
Whether or not someone takes a particular course of action often boils down to a competition between different incentives. When a criminal considers robbing a bank, he or she must weigh the negative incentive of going to prison or getting shot in the attempt against the positive incentive of potentially coming away with a lot […]
The popularity of mindfulness has exploded in recent years. While the concept got its start as a source of personal well-being, its potential benefits for the professional world have become increasingly apparent, as well. Mindfulness vs. Meditation Mindfulness is often confused with meditation, and the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably. While related, there are […]
Every business operates a little differently, which is why competitors exist. There’s a fine line to straddle between maintaining compliance and falling victim to complacency. This is when HR business process consulting services can help to inform your organization’s design. Perhaps you only need to make a few minor tweaks to recruitment and onboarding processes […]
We know that droves of workers across the world are leaving their jobs or thinking about doing so in the near future. As many as 19 million people in the United States alone have changed roles since April 2021. What’s less clear is exactly what’s causing this change in behavior. Broadly speaking, we know the […]
For over a month, the world has been gripped by the unfolding war between Ukraine and Russia—the largest military mobilization in Europe since World War II, causing the greatest number of European refugees since the second World War. While the Ukranian people suffer indiscriminate shelling of their cities and homes and are uprooted in a […]
Have you noticed how life at home often mimics lived experience in the workplace? Much like adults set an example for younger people (knowingly or not), leaders shape the behavior of employees in an organization. A perfect example of this point happened many years ago when my husband and I were babysitting the three-year old […]
Although there are plenty of workers who fall between both ends of the spectrum, employees either desperately missed interacting in person with their colleagues or they loved their newfound isolation during the widespread shift to remote work. On the flip side, some employees are going to be more eager than others to return to the […]
It’s been more than two years of on-again, off-again work in the office, and as someone who has been on both sides of the Zoom, the solution is clear: don’t force employees into the office if they don’t want to be there. Remote Control Many leaders across the spectrum are facing the question about when, […]
In today’s fast-changing business climate, growth-minded companies have identified widening gaps between business imperatives and their workforce skills as a critical problem to solve. These challenges – combined with Covid and The Great Resignation – have snowballed. They have forced even many forward-looking companies to change their business models, corporate policies and in many cases, […]