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If HR and business leaders want to influence and win over employees and executives, they must first get into their minds and build trust, according to a leadership expert.

More employers are changing HR's title to 'people and culture', keen to shed its reputation as the workplace police, a chief people officer says.

Perceiving feedback conversations as "difficult" can be a massive impediment to team productivity, according to a leadership expert.

Leadership selection and development methods are ripe for overhaul using emerging areas of neuroscience, an international expert says.

The most valuable role HR can play in the future will take "courage and skill", because most workplaces are currently headed down the wrong path, says an HR consultant and former Lion director.

Practising "tough love leadership" is the key to mitigating the effect toxic employees have in the workplace, an HR advisor stresses.

HR professionals seek support in seven key areas, according to a workplace psychologist's study into the challenges they face at work. Meanwhile, Linfox has been cleared to target women for logistics roles; research shows jobseekers don't trust companies that have an inadequate online presence; and more.

HR leaders are failing to align people metrics to business objectives and performance, causing a mismatch in data and ultimately hindering the organisation's key strategic outcomes, a specialist warns.

HR professionals must fundamentally alter the way they perceive change, to become "champions" of organisational transformation, a leadership expert says.