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Building a Coaching Culture: Reflect, Renew, and Rise to Resilient, High-Performing Teams

By Kelly Meerbott, Certified Leadership Coach Feb 19, 2025 Learning & Development

Updated: Feb 19, 2025

Imagine walking into a workplace buzzing with energy, where employees radiate confidence and resilience, collaborating seamlessly to overcome challenges. In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, creating such an environment is not a luxury but a necessity. A coaching culture—rooted in deep reflection, purposeful renewal, and aspirational growth—has the power to transform teams from ordinary to extraordinary. […]

'They Never Told Me'

By Heather Hunt Aug 6, 2012 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Aug 6, 2012

‘Surely They Know What I Want’ Managers and supervisors don’t like confronting their employees about performance problems so they tend to assume that employees are aware that they are not doing an acceptable job. Unfortunately, employees don’t think that way. They assume that everything is fine unless they are told otherwise. Then if there’s a […]

Get Your Team Physically Active Virtually

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Apr 15, 2021 Learning & Development

Updated: Apr 15, 2021

Of all the impacts a massive shift to remote work has had on employees and workplace culture, physical activity probably doesn’t top the list in most people’s minds; but there can be noticeable changes in an employee’s productivity, engagement and overall mental state based on changes in their level of activity, and while reducing the […]

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Leadership: Embracing Paradoxes

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Jan 6, 2021 Learning & Development

Updated: Jan 6, 2021

The word “paradox” probably conjures up notions of logical puzzles and brain-straining impossibilities—the types of concepts most would want to keep far away from a business and its leaders. But paradoxes do exist, and some suggest that learning to understand and embrace them may be beneficial for developing leadership skills and creativity.

How Employers Can Empower Healthier Lives in 2025

By Dave Guilmette, Alight Jan 16, 2025 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Jan 16, 2025

Employer-sponsored healthcare has long been a highly valued benefit for over 60% of employees—and with good reason. Healthcare is expensive and can lead to financial hardship in the absence of a comprehensive, affordable health plan. Yet, navigating the U.S. healthcare system has become increasingly challenging for employees, leading to widespread frustration and lack of understanding […]

The Inclusive Manager: Using AI to Transform Workplace Feedback

By Elise Smith, Praxis Labs Jan 13, 2025 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Jan 13, 2025

As organizations gear up for another performance review cycle, a crucial gap becomes clear: despite spending billions annually on management training, organizations still put managers in high-stakes performance conversations with little opportunity to practice. This ‘practice paradox’ highlights how unprepared managers are for one of their most important responsibilities. While in the best-case scenario, feedback […]

Cedar Rapids: When Business Conference Debauchery Ensues

By Kristin Starnes Gray, FordHarrison Jan 23, 2020 EntertainHR

Updated: Jan 23, 2020

Anytime employees are sent on business trips, they represent the company. Often, the sanctity of that responsibility is preserved. Other times, it is not. Today’s column takes a look at a film that heavily follows the latter situation, with many examples of precisely what you do not want your traveling employees to be party to.

How Family-Building Benefits Can Attract and Retain Diverse Talent in 2023

By Jeni Mayorskaya, Stork Club Mar 20, 2023 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Apr 5, 2023

The Great Resignation of 2022 created a pervasive issue across all enterprise organizations: attracting and retaining top talent. In fact, 63% of recruiters say the talent shortage is their biggest problem, and, as a result, leaders are scrambling to implement policies, perks, and other benefits to set their business apart from competitors. Corporations evaluating company-differentiating […]

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Consequences for Failure to Recertify

By Jason R. Mau, Parsons Behle & Latimer May 13, 2021 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: May 13, 2021

An employee had to recertify his qualifying condition because of an established pattern of potential Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) misuse, but he failed to cooperate with the recertification process and didn’t provide the requested information. If he seeks FMLA protection for future absences, should we deny the request, or are we required to […]