The consequences of dismissing or mismanaging employees' emotions can be "catastrophic" for organisations, but when leaders recognise and properly handle them, "teams achieve remarkable things", an executive coach says.
When employees want more flexibility than a workplace can offer, it's not impossible to "get everyone onto the same page", according to an experienced HR leader.
Too many professionals still believe successful networking hinges on personality traits, when what's required is strategy, says a specialist in the field.
Employees who report receiving clear leadership communication at work are five times happier in their roles than those who say communication isn't clear, new data shows.
An employer on a mission to become "the healthiest workplace" started by asking its 4,000 employees, "What if work didn't feel like work?", a conference heard this week.
As more of its work is outsourced to AI, there's "a significant risk" HR could lose its standalone strategic status and instead become "an operational function that uses technology to execute on the strategies of others", an advisor warns.
CEOs are expecting AI to help organisations achieve new efficiencies in 2026, and it will, but HR leaders should be priming them to anticipate inefficiency first, a Gartner director warns.
Increased ability to generate new ideas, improved empathy and better decision-making are just some of the workplace benefits experienced by users of psychedelic dr-gs, a study has found.
One of HR's most important tasks is to help leaders understand how they're perceived by others, but the risk of causing "great offence" means it's falling by the wayside, a leadership authority says.
