- Compensation and Benefits
By Camille Bradbury
- Leadership Development
- News & Compliance
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- Leadership Development
"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from a seasoned HR consultant. Hear her advice for an HR pro who is currently trying to prioritize industry recommended initiatives for 2026.
- Employee Engagement
Research consistently shows empathy is one of the strongest drivers of performance, engagement, and retention. When employees feel their leaders are empathetic, the overwhelming majority report they can better navigate work and life demands. And employees routinely say they would leave—or even take a pay cut—for a more empathetic employer.
- Leadership Development
Learn how workplace disagreements escalate beneath the surface and how tools like the Ladder of Inference can help teams move from assumption to clarity. With a return-to-office example, we show how to redirect tension into productive dialogue.
- HR Profession
"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from someone "who’s been there, and done that". Navigating tough workplace dynamics? Feeling like your company’s not aligned with your values? Exhausted, overwhelmed, and in need of a fresh perspective? Ask a seasoned HR pro, Ellie.
- Leadership Development
As the year turns, HR is expected to help every department reset by realigning priorities, stabilizing teams, and guiding leaders into the new year. Yet while HR supports the organization’s transition, its own systems, workflows, and unresolved inefficiencies are often carried straight into January.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.
- Leadership Development
December is often framed as a natural slowdown, yet for HR, it is rarely quiet. What actually happens is more subtle. Non-urgent work is deferred, difficult decisions are postponed, and unresolved issues are quietly carried into the new year. By January, HR is expected to implement new strategies while continuing to clean up unfinished business from the prior year. This accumulation of unresolved work becomes a silent backlog, one that undermines stability before the first quarter is even underway.
- HR Profession
"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from someone "who’s been there, and done that". Navigating tough workplace dynamics? Feeling like your company’s not aligned with your values? Exhausted, overwhelmed, and in need of a fresh perspective? Ask a seasoned HR pro, Ellie.
- Leadership Development
Pay transparency is not about what you disclose. It is about what your systems can support. As enforcement expands and expectations rise, HR’s role is to ensure transparency is accurate, equitable, and sustainable.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.

