It's Time for Diversity Training to Evolve

I was perusing Fast Company recently when an article caught my eye. The piece challenged the effectiveness of diversity policies and training in many companies. As a matter of fact, it went so far as to say that many of them are backfiring.

Talent Is a #1 Priority: 8 Best Practices for Employee Engagement

3 Ways to Engage the Next Generation of RNs

Katrina Greer applied to college planning to become an orthodontist. But after her father was diagnosed with leukemia during her senior year of high school, her aspirations of working in healthcare shifted.

Talent Management Helps Supermarket Chain Live Brand Promise

More retailers are enjoying the advantages that effective talent management processes, supported by technology, can offer. This includes strategies for attracting, developing and retaining employees, ensuring a pipeline of qualified people, and building a culture of engagement and productivity. Gallup research shows companies with higher-than-average employee engagement also have 27 percent higher profits, 50 percent higher sales and 50 percent customer loyalty.1

Women’s Equality Day 2022: The true power of Amplification in the workplace

The 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, ensures voting rights for everyone regardless of gender. And in 1971 (51 years later), Congress designated August 26 as Women’s Equality Day. The right for all people to vote and Women’s Equality Day came into being because women and their allies amplified their voices.

Strategies and Tools for Driving Learner Engagement

Many organizations are prioritizing learning to attract, retain, and grow top talent, but implementing the strategies at the right time for the right learner can be tough. Doing it with tight resources, even tougher. Andersen Corporation has experienced this. They knew it wasn’t enough to follow the standard “if you build it, they will come” mentality for learning.

The 3 top skills every organization needs to ensure an inclusive work culture

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Belonging.

The ROI of the right skills strategy

The global skills gap persists—and new research from the Cornerstone People Research Lab revealed a growing Skills Confidence Gap as well. The latter tells us that employers are largely confident in their ability to support skill development, but the enthusiasm isn’t shared by their employees. Both gaps represent serious threats to an organization’s future readiness.

The Power of Workplace Empathy

As an HR leader, if your goal is to nurture organizational empathy, then you have to make empathy a conscious part of your day-to-day. Unfortunately, many leaders and HR leaders struggle with how to exhibit empathy and build an empathetic organizational culture.

5 ways to make your workplace more LGBTQ+ inclusive

A diverse workplace is only as strong as the measures it puts into place to foster authentic and meaningful inclusion. People know when you're making a real effort or just going through the motions. We need to create work environments where everyone feels welcome and is empowered to bring their full self to work.

Improve workplace culture with modern compliance training

According to Gartner, workers are twice as likely to quit their jobs after observing compliance violations. Quite simply, non-compliance is costly. Not only does it mean hefty fines, but it also has the potential to hurt and organization’s reputation and decrease employee morale. What also makes compliance particularly challenging is that laws and regulations constantly change and update.

Three essential elements for a future-ready workforce

The notion of “future ready” can mean different things, but there is one common thread when the topic is discussed within forward-thinking organizations. It’s possible for both employees and the company to thrive even within a very fluid and challenging operating environment as long as the right structural and technological elements are in place. Three key factors help create and maintain this ability to thrive: