Category: Learning & Development

Employees are valuing career development more than ever—it’s a sign that the company is willing to invest in their future. How are businesses approaching training today? What are their pain points, and what topics are being addressed in training?

Biggest Skills Gaps for Gen Z

Generation Z, a.k.a. “Gen Z,” a.k.a. “Zoomers,” are poised to become the largest cohort in the American workforce in a few short years. By the end of the current decade, they’re expected to make up 30 percent of the U.S. workforce. A Look at Gen Z It’s crucial for employers to understand what makes this […]

Resenteeism: What It Is and How to Handle It

It started in 2021 with the Great Resignation, when 47 million people quit their jobs. In the wake of such an exodus, many organizations faced unprecedented labor shortages that strained the employees who remained. As a result, burnout ran rampant throughout organizations, leading to some employees’ motivation atrophying and the eventual coining of the term […]

Sage Advice to Help Women Grads Successfully Navigate the World of Work

Each year when eager grads launch into the exciting unknowns of new careers, I inevitably receive requests for guidance on how young women can best overcome the myriad obstacles they’re likely to find in the workplace.  After years in Fortune 500 leadership and as the founder of a leadership development firm dedicated to women’s advancement […]

How Managers Can Address ‘Bare Minimum Mondays’

On the heels of “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing,” “Bare Minimum Mondays” is the latest workplace trend sweeping social media. Bare Minimum Mondays promote prioritizing self-care and easing into the workweek, meaning productivity could take a hit if not properly managed. While the term may be new, the habit of starting the workweek off slowly […]

What We Learned From … SHRM 2023

It’s been about a week since SHRM 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and all attendees are still processing all the fantastic things they learned at the conference! The HR Daily Advisor team listened to industry experts, grew our networks, and collected best practices to share with our audience. We’ll review the conference as a whole, […]

7 Things Gen Z Workers Value Most

As digital natives, Gen Z workers have the potential to bring unique skills and valuable perspectives to the organizations where they work. Having experienced significant challenges at a young age, including the COVID-19 pandemic and entering the workforce during a period of considerable uncertainty, Gen Zs possess a distinctive combination of resilience and empathy that […]

Are You Ready for AI? Some Things for HR to Consider Before Pressing the Button

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies grow in sophistication, businesses are increasingly turning to them to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve productivity. HR professionals are under pressure to integrate AI tools into their recruitment, training, and performance evaluation processes to keep pace with this rapidly evolving landscape. While AI promises many benefits, there are also […]

Leading for Workplace Wellness

The workplace is one of the leading sources of stress in America. According to The American Institute of Stress, 75% of employees believe workers have more on-the-job stress than the previous generation, and 40% reported their job was extremely stressful. We’re now finding managers have an outsized influence on their employees’ mental health, with 70% […]

HR Works Podcast: Embracing the New AI – Achievement Intelligence

Guest: Caroline Dowd-Higgins (Executive leadership coach, media host, public speaker and best-selling author) How are we seeing the emergence of artificial intelligence in the workplace impacting some of HR’s most valued and prioritized elements, such as workplace culture and employee wellbeing? What are some of the long-term challenges from being solely focused on goals without […]

How to Tackle 3 Common Types of Workplace Conflict

Darius and Gloria are coworkers in a large corporation, and their shared manager has been extremely frustrated with the high level of conflict between these two employees, who are otherwise two of the manager’s top performers. In the past week alone, Darius and Gloria have had three separate conflicts the manager is aware of: On […]