- HR Technology
By Anthony Vaughan and Emerald McFerrin
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- Leadership Development
A $50 gift card for saving a company $1M/month. Are bad employee recognition programs driving your best people out the door? Here's what the data shows.
- Employee Engagement
"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from a seasoned HR consultant. Read her advice for an HR pro struggling with a toxic manager.
- HR Profession
HR professionals are the designated shock absorbers of organizational life. When the workforce is anxious, they steady it. When leaders make difficult decisions, they manage the fallout. When employees experience trauma (layoffs, restructuring, harassment, grief), HR is the first call. They carry the institutional weight of every person in the building. Often simultaneously. Often without acknowledgment. And almost always without a people strategy of their own.
- Leadership Development
Leadership visibility is about being seen. Leadership accessibility is about being reachable, responsive, and clear. Many organizations have visibility buttoned up: frequent communications, leadership updates, video messages, and open forums. But visibility alone doesn’t help when teams need timely decisions, clarification, or guidance.
- 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.

