Employees often start the new year with great resolutions that are derailed within days, but by helping them to be more realistic and strategic, leaders can prevent discouragement and foster success.
Since applying simplification principles to a time-intensive annual process, the "panic" it once provoked has eased, and employees report feeling "lighter", an HR leader says.
HR leaders who practise being "everyday bold" will be better prepared to tackle the dual challenges of building employee trust and encouraging innovation, a conference heard this week.
Ikea's new enterprise agreement "walks the talk on inclusion", and allows access to benefits such as paid parental leave "from day one", a leader in its people and culture team says.
An organisation has used its people data to launch a benefits package that positions it as an employer of choice without resorting to above-market pay rates.
The number of employees with attention deficit trait is rising exponentially, requiring HR professionals to be "radically retrained" to mitigate this, a leadership advisor says.
Separating employees who are friends so they don't distract one another, expecting people to disregard hunger outside meal breaks, and generally pretending people are "machines", are just some of the ways employers trying to "fix" so-called problems are making them worse.
Employees who experience domestic and family violence are "drowning in the workplace", with a lack of support often leading them to lose their job on performance grounds, a social impact expert says.
