Diversity Officer Drives Staff Engagement with Individualized Support

HR Brew Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs have faced both pushback and staunch support in recent years. For Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, developing an agile, individualized DEI program has been a catalyst for staff engagement and improved patient care. In a recent article from HR Brew, chief diversity officer Nancy Maldonado discussed taking on the role, its associated …

HR Department Pros and Cons

Business.com As organizations grow, the need for human resources expertise becomes increasingly apparent. As staff numbers increase, departments can become more siloed, resource management becomes more important, compliance requirements become more complex, and the potential for gaps in training builds. For such growing organizations, HR needs are obvious – but leaders must decide between building an in-house HR department or …

Understaffed HR Professionals Find Ways to Thrive

HR Dive In a recent article about the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2025 report, HR Dive highlights both the ongoing staffing challenges faced by the HR industry and the agile ways such professionals are finding ways to stay effective. While 62% of HR professionals say they’ve been working beyond their capacity in the past year and 57% called their …

HR Departments Struggle with Employee Feedback

HR Brew Through survey results, publicized controversy, and commentary from Human Resources professionals, a new picture of employee feedback is emerging. According to a recent article from HR Brew, “Some 39% of employees don’t feel comfortable giving honest feedback, and 44% don’t give honest feedback because they don’t think it’ll amount to anything,” highlighting a serious gap in the effectiveness …

Healthcare Labor Crisis Continues

Healthleaders Preliminary federal data from June 2024 shows healthcare job creation lagging behind other sectors, furthering the ongoing labor shortage across the industry. A recent article from Healthleaders reports that healthcare grew 49,000 jobs in June, down from the average of 64,000 jobs over the past year, with the majority of these healthcare jobs (22,000) coming from hospitals and ambulatory …

Digital Human Resource Operations

Human Resource Executive In an increasingly digital world, where quickly changing technology and demands for efficiency present ongoing challenges for Human Resource departments, a holistic approach to evolving strategies is necessary for HR to keep up with evolving workforces. In a recent article from Human Resource Executive, the author presents five key components of such an approach, emphasizing the importance …

Creating a Process Improvement Plan

Julian Lankstead Laying out a 10-step method for creating a process improvement plan, a recent article from Julian Lankstead clarifies the essential components of an actionable, well-documented plan that leads to effective change. By first outlining the importance of such plans, then moving into each stage of plan evaluation, development, and implementation, Lankstead shows a path that organizations can follow …

Strategies for Supporting HR Teams

Forbes Recognizing that a supported, engaged staff is critical for the success of any organization – and the key role that human resources plays in creating such an environment – Forbes has recently published a list of 10 strategies for HR teams to foster the support their staff needs to thrive. This collection of strategies includes simple concepts like ensuring …

Tips for Implementing HR Software

Maybe you can remember the time when taking care of employee issues was simply looking around the office, making a few decisions about employee time-off, sick days, hours worked and occasionally advertising for and hiring a new employee. Then, because your business grew before your eyes,  those previously simple tasks became complex, and time-consuming. This is where HR Software steps in …