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Assess your organization’s state of readiness for a mentorship program. Our checklist will tell you if your organization is prepared to deliver mentoring to its employees.

Our 2022 Readiness Index study will help businesses understand what is needed to retain and motivate key talent.

The hybrid workplace has challenges and upsides. The pre-pandemic workplace did, too. But you can almost always improve any situation by honest assessment, thorough analysis and clear communication.

New research from Resetting Normal: Defining a New Era of Work suggests that many working people believe they have been more productive during the pandemic. However, before celebrating success, we need to consider how people were able to improve their productivity, and the toll it is taking on us.

Our new research found that while 68 percent of all respondents – leaders, frontline managers, and non-managers – believe that upskilling is important, 42 percent are concerned about not having skills that are relevant to the future of work. That’s largely because people are not getting access to skills and career development opportunity.

Many of the people who were forced out of familiar office environments to work from home are severely stressed, some with the experience of working from home, others about the prospects of returning to the office. A poorly devised and badly implemented back-to-work strategy could have a devastating effect on people.

Steve Harrison passed away July 10, but his legacy was cemented years earlier with a deep commitment to outplacement support, and an unparalleled passion for building positive relationships with both employees and clients.

How do you make sure your workforce is fit for future purpose?

Our survey showed that 60 percent of hourly and non-exempt employees were not offered any kind of outplacement support when impacted by layoffs. Why do so many organizations neglect their most vulnerable workers – the people who need outplacement support more than anyone else?

Coaching is one of the most effective ways an organization can improve the way it works. From the C-suite down to frontline managers, everyone should have access to coaching programs.

Charu Jain SVP, Merchandising and Innovation, and Vikram Baskaran, VP of Information Technology, with Alaska Airlines, talk about why being able to offer enhanced customer service at a time when the whole notion of customer service has been completely disrupted by the pandemic is a testament to the strong cultural foundation that existed at Alaska Airlines before COVID-19 arrived.