Thought Leadership: HR & Total Rewards

How Employees Challenge HR Decisions informed by AI

Make it clear who will review a concern and how an error can be corrected

The Benefits Vendor Inventory

What to capture before consolidation

Peer Benchmarking for Nurse Staffing

Compare workload and staffing before changing the model

Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change

Connect requested behaviors to evaluation and rewards

Benefit Plan Harmonization Across Multiple Sites

Compare employee effects and sequence the transition

Manager Capacity and Adoption in HR Rollouts

Test capacity and routines, then measure the decisions

Keeping People in Charge of HR Decisions

Define human authority in policy and check the tools already in use

Vendor Rationalization in Employee Benefits

Evaluate capability, service, and transition risk

Middle Manager Resistance to HR Transformation

Understanding capacity, incentives, and decision rights

Ethical Rightsizing: Preserving Dignity and Trust in an Automated Era

When organizations must reduce headcount, how they do it matters just as much as the decision itself. Four HR leaders share what it truly takes to navigate layoffs with h...

Shadow AI at Work: What HR Leaders Learned from the Roundtable

When the first speaker in a Senior HR Connex Think Tank asked half-jokingly whether using generative AI amounted to “cheating,” they hit on the confluence of anxieties th...

Skills-Based Frameworks are Here to Stay

Skills-based frameworks are replacing traditional roles to improve hiring accuracy, agility, and workforce development. Success depends on strong skill taxonomies, ethica...

From Perks to Purpose: Rethinking Wellbeing

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, “wellbeing” has transcended its traditional confines of gym memberships and biometric screenings. Senior HR leaders are now tasked ...

Support Caregivers, Support the Business

In August 2024, the Surgeon General issued a warning around the state of working parents in the US,” explained Sarah Olin. “Their research found that 41% of parents and c...

HR Leadership: From Selfless to Self-Care

Countless stories shared at Connex industry events demonstrate just how compassionate HR leaders can be, their deep empathy pushing them to go above and beyond in the ser...

Ignite! The Dangers of Disconnecting

This article was originally published on theFirefly Inclusion Solutions website.

Five Minutes With…Stacie Baird

Briefly explore the career, leadership strategies, and life lessons of a fellow HR innovator. Nearly half of employees worry that GenAI could negatively impact the nature...

Embracing AI: HR's Next Big Leap

From streamlining recruitment to transforming leaders’ conversations, AI is helping Connex Community thought leaders reshape what it means to be a successful, efficient, ...

Redefining Workplace Wellbeing: A Holistic Approach to Mental Health

2024’s Top Employee Wellbeing Trends

Prioritizing Inclusivity for a More Diverse, Equitable Culture

Enhancing Inclusivity Through Intersectionality

Succession and the Talent Bench

Is Your Talent Pipeline Prepared?

How Culture Determines Whether Performance Management Works

Performance management is typically defined as the process of evaluating employee activity as a function of efficiently and effectively meeting organizational needs, but ...

Inside PwC: A Tech-Enabled Talent Strategy

The immediate impact of the pandemic may be behind us, but we’re not getting the R&R we expected – instead the news is filled with talk of resignations and recessions...

DEIA the “Right” Way

Some organizations are losing steam on their DEIA initiatives, negatively impacting both business performance and the employee experience. The same can’t be said for the ...

Becoming an Employer of Choice

A decade’s long streak of growth finally came to an end, with the annual average engagement rate dropping 2% in both 2021 and 2022 according to Gallup.

Five minutes with Rod Lacey

With Gartner forecasting a steady increase in turnover for the foreseeable future, we consulted Chief People Officer Rod Lacey to learn how SimPro made attrition practica...

Inside Connexion 2023

Expressed early in the first panel discussion, that statement helped kick off Connexion 2023 and fittingly set the tone for the sessions to come. These in-person discussi...

Industry Insights: Elevating Compensation with AI

A recent Connex Partners panel explored compensation planning and its use as a lever for employee retention, satisfaction, and productivity. Panelists discussed how succe...

Navigating the Evolving Talent Management Landscape

As we approach the end of Q1 2024, it’s become clear that labor will continue to be a hot button issue for the foreseeable future. This puts additional pressure on HR tea...

Embracing Generative AI: The Future of HR in 2024

2023 saw generative AI tools like ChatGPT come to the forefront of public discourse, and many HR teams and human capital technology providers spent the better part of the...

Five Minutes With...Rachael Kelly

Every performance management strategy hinges on having a psychologically safe environment where employer and employee alike are receptive to feedback, so how do you creat...

Using Intentionality to Transform the Management of Remote Teams

After Patrick Felder became Vice President of Employee Success at Salesforce in October 2020, he did not meet any of the business leaders that he works with, nor any othe...

Five Minutes With...Alice Yoo LeClair

In this article, we caught up with Alice Yoo LeClair, Divisional CHRO at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. From digital mentors to sapien evolution, Alice provides pl...

Leadership: It's What Happens in Vegas!

MGM Resorts International’s Corporate VPs of Human Resources and Talent Management share insight into the company’s evolution as a leader-led, employee centric organizati...

No One Is Just A Number

The idea of taking a critical lens to ranked performance management styles is nothing new. In fact, a quick Google search shows a wave of articles from 2015 discussing th...

The Perfect Storm: Fixing the Recruitment Crisis

Ken Blanchard on 40 Years of HR

Ken Blanchard was born in New Jersey and raised in New York. In 1982 he and his coauthor, Spencer Johnson, published the seminal management text The One Minute Manager, r...

Leading With Intentionality

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...

Inside PwC’s Tech-Enabled L&D

“We’re a professional services firm looking to solve the world’s most challenging problems. If we were going to really drive this community of problem solvers, we needed ...

Joy at Work!

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...

To Get More Done, Work Less!

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...

The Power of Trauma-Informed Leadership

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...

Flexing for an Employee-Led Culture

To one degree or another, emerging from the height of the pandemic has been a test of cultural resilience and management flexibility for all businesses. Despite operation...

ICYMI: Connexion 2022

In case you missed it, we were excited and honored to put on our first in-person event since the initial lockdowns at Connexion 2022 down in sunny San Diego, CA. Running ...

Bringing Your Full Self to Work

It’s staggering to think about just how much time an average adult devotes to work, especially in recent years. Between labor shortages, business model changes, and the e...

Insight into HR’s Chance to Redefine Work with Fara Palumbo

The country has sped right past the two-year anniversary of COVID’s initial declaration as a National Emergency: a testament to how well we’ve managed to adapt to our cir...

The Great Reengagement

Connex Member Michelle Sanchez-Bickley sat down with Maureen Metcalf from Innovative Leadership to discuss these challenges, and in the process, shed light on a refreshin...

Building competitive advantages with Alice Yoo Le Clair

What responsibility, if any, do HR leaders have for community building within their organization; and if so, how has the move to remote and hybrid work complicated the pr...

6 ways to achieve total confidence in total rewards in 2022

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic began it was widely acknowledged that employees were looking for more than just a paycheck. Now, nearly two years after the pandemic sta...

6 key insights for improving resilience, stress reduction and mental health support for healthcare staff

The momentum achieved early in the pandemic by positioning care professionals as “heroes” has since worn off, leaving a trail of stress, mental and emotional strain, and ...

Recalibrating Talent Management for the Remote Workplace

HR leaders tackled a wide range of talent management topics in our recent Connex Think Tank session. In a rich discussion centered on the push towards hybrid work and fie...

The Biggest Thing To Happen in Human Capital Reporting That No One Knows About!

2020 has brought with it an overwhelming number of items competing for the collective attention of HR practitioners. Amidst the swirl of commotion, a major decision impac...

Building a Practical and Sustainable Performance Competency Model

We were delighted to host a recent session on the subject of building a performance competency model. The session was led by Tony Callander, Chief Human Resources Officer...

The cost of contentment: 5 key insights on how to strike the balance in benefits management in 2022

On November 4, Connex HR members met for an insightful discussion on the topic of benefits programs and packages, and how to keep employee value propositions attractive i...

How Leadership Has The Power To Unite And Inspire

As leaders, we have the opportunity and responsibility to help our employees and organizations transcend personal differences and better align with our organization's pur...

Three Key Takeaways from Green Circle Life’s Webinar: “Promoting Emotional Wellbeing During COVID and Beyond”

On April 14th, Green Circle Life presented a webinar about the importance of supporting employees’ wellbeing in the workplace featuring John Daniel, speaker, author and f...

Preparing for the Known Unknown: HCM Leaders and the Return-to-Work Conundrum

With the new promise of widespread vaccine rollout, HCM leadership must consider the complex implications of a return to work while continuing to optimize the work from h...

Playing to Win: Best Practices in Team Construction and Development

Introduction Team development has long represented an outsize challenge for leadership due to a range of factors, beginning with the fact that it is fundamentally difficu...

A Crystal Ball for the 21st Century: The Critical Importance of Automation, Innovation, and Predictive Capabilities in Workforce Planning

The Core Challenge Workforce planning is among the top challenges facing healthcare providers. This was true before the pandemic, with widespread shortfalls of clinical t...

Automation, Advanced Analytics, and the Transformation of HCM Administration

AI-driven automation is the wave of the future for global business, driven by the accelerating need to do more with less in order to remain competitive and economically v...

Key Considerations for Workforce Optimization in 2021 and Beyond

2020 brought significant change, especially for the US workforce. Telecommuting or remote working had slowly been on the rise prior to this past year, however, with the C...

5 key insights on how to create the conditions for a successful return to work

On December 1, Connex HR members met to discuss the return of the workforce to offices and on-site premises in the midst of the continued challenge of Covid-19. From the ...

Total Rewards and the Employee Value Proposition in the Age of COVID

While many organizations are so focused on surviving the pandemic that they have placed the employee value proposition on the backburners, others have come to recognize a...