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Increasing employee access to lateral career moves improves engagement and reduces voluntary staff turnover, according to a new report.

Flexible work arrangements offer employers a host of benefits, but one technology company found that too much flexibility can also have its downsides.

Employers that want their people to listen and respond to corporate communications should stop forcing messages on "a bored, disinterested majority", and instead target the influencers in their ranks, says safety expert Loren Murray.

If you need to get employees across an entire organisation on board with a new initiative, targeting an influential section of the workforce will be more effective than taking a broadbrush approach. Here are lessons from one organisation's experience.

Instead of expecting workers to be "firing on all cylinders" the moment they return from the summer break, employers should try to keep January fun, says engagement and performance expert Kate Boorer.

Working towards the right kinds of goals can help change perceptions that HR is just another business cost centre, says performance expert Terry Reynolds.

This year has been an exceptionally challenging one for HR professionals. The new anti-bullying jurisdiction kicked off; social media evolution outpaced the development of associated workplace policies and responses; and there was no shortage of new case law on everything from unfair dismissal to restraint clauses.

Most New Year's resolutions are short-lived, and more likely to induce a sense of failure than to drive success, according to behavioural strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan, who say the same is often true of organisational goals.

Leaders should use "good old-fashioned discussions" - not employee surveys - to close the gap between what they think motivates staff and what actually does, says leadership expert Andrew Henderson.

HR professionals will have to develop new skills to help workplaces bridge the gap between what they need and the qualifications the education sector is producing, according to AHRI president Peter Wilson.