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Strategic Planning

4 questions for HR leaders to reclaim their strategic seat

05/14/2025
Human Resources Day on May 20 isn’t just a celebration—it’s a call for reflection. As the world of work accelerates, HR professionals are often caught between putting out fires and driving long-term value. This year, instead of focusing on emerging trends alone, use the day as a mirror. Where is HR truly adding strategic value? Where are you still stuck in reactive patterns?

7 tips to make your meetings more productive

01/13/2025
Between vague agendas and never-ending Zoom sessions, meetings have become a waste of time for many. Here’s how to structure huddles to make them productive and run more smoothly.

How to achieve organizational optimization through rightsizing

12/04/2024
In HR teams across industries, a quiet revolution is transforming how companies think about workforce management. Today’s most successful organizations view their human capital as a dynamic ecosystem—one that requires continuous calibration, strategic thinking and proactive adaptation.

Smart strategies for surviving this fall’s open enrollment

09/30/2024
Open enrollment for health insurance benefits is an inevitable autumn ritual that can cause great stress for HR and for your employees. It usually comes at the busiest time of the year, when HR pros—along with everyone else—are tending to year-end deadlines. Smooth the process by implementing these strategies.

How assertive are you? 18 questions test your ability to be positively persuasive

02/16/2024
Giving employees critical feedback, negotiating with vendors, sticking up for your people (or your budget)—they’re all communications situations that require a certain amount of assertiveness. These 18 questions can help you pinpoint areas of weakness in your ability to express yourself. Use your results to figure out where you can improve.

Succession: It’s time to plan for the inevitable exodus of older workers

02/14/2024
Employers nationwide are facing a potential succession crisis. With the unemployment rate hovering near a 50-year low of 3.7%, it’s difficult to hire new employees to replace older staff who are leaving the workforce. Employers need to plan now for how to replace the expertise older workers have acquired.

Reporting HR results: Link initiatives to financial impact

11/21/2023
If you’re drafting your department’s goals for 2024 or starting to put together an annual report on this year’s progress, it’s not enough to explain what you did. That won’t cement your role as a strategic partner in your organization. For the top brass to know exactly how valuable HR’s contributions have been, they need to know the financial impact of your initiatives.

Boost productivity & retention with a formal job-rotation plan

06/09/2023
A formal rotation plan can teach new skills, increase employee engagement and provide career paths for stagnated top performers who’ve outgrown their positions.

Lessons from Walmart workplace killings

12/13/2022
What can other employers learn from this latest episode of workplace violence, and how can they improve their prevention programs?

Snapshot: Employers brace for harder economic times

09/13/2022
Amid growing concern about a U.S. recession, some employers have begun tightening their belts.