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Psychological safety is being significantly misunderstood, according to the May-June, 2025 edition of the Harvard Business Review. Academics Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J Kerrissey, have identified six misconceptions about psychological safety that that they say are leading organizations astray.…
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Employees who switched companies used to earn roughly 10 to 20 percent more than those who stayed with one company. Not anymore. The median pay increase for workers switching jobs sank substantially to 4.8 percent last month from a high…
The trend in government and business these days is to cut workers across the board with little notice and shared strategy. It’s done in the name of improving efficiency. But mindlessly cutting workers doesn’t achieve this goal. Instead, it leaves…
Read More Mindless workforce cost-cutting could cut down your business
When I took over Human Resources for a division of the global medical technology company Medtronic in the 2000s, I discovered they were spending a paltry sum on employee learning. I asked them to engage with me in developing a…
Read More Improve your profitability with a better learning plan
The business environment and workforce are undergoing significant transformation as organizations brace for change and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), which is often the automation of repetitive tasks, and generative artificial intelligence (gen AI), which creates new content like…
Read More AI transformation is most successful with a human-centric approach
Many employers in 2025 are still waking up to a vexing pay issue: pay compression, made more troublesome by pay transparency laws. Pay compression occurs when companies give higher-than-normal wages and salaries to new hires, often during times of labor…
Read More Pay transparency is exposing your pay compression problem
On Martin Luther King Day this week, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the nation’s 47th President. He vowed to curtail Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) programs in government, have government policy recognize only two genders, male and female,…
The year 2025 promises to be turbulent due to planned business tax cuts by the new Presidential Administration that will stimulate investment and growth. The round up and deportation of illegal immigrants will cause further labor shortages in certain industries,…
I was stunned, as you probably were, too, over the cold-blooded murder of United Health Care Insurance (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week. The social media backlash was equally appalling to me. Most of the social…
Read More Does it take a CEO murder to wake up leaders over the anger with US healthcare?
Large-scale layoffs have been the norm for the past three years. According to layoffs.fyi, over 141,000 employees have been laid off from 468 companies in 2024 so far, many of which are in high-tech. While layoffs sometimes provide short-term financial…
