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Mental Health Awareness Month 2021
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we would like to offer some insights and share some resources on how to help support mental health in the workplace. Now more than ever, investing in your employee’s mental health is imperative, as it affects job performance, productivity, employee retention and more. Employee Mental Health –...
Resources for the Wellbeing Journey
*This post is sponsored by Oracle HCM. For more information, visit them at www.oracle.com/human-capital-management Wellbeing and self-care are more important than ever before. Working from home or other non-traditional places is now a way of life for many employees. Add to that the stressors from the pandemic, having children schooling at home, caring for elderly...
Best of the HR Happy Hour Show in 2020
While 2020 was an absolutely insane year on any number of levels, one of the things that helped us at H3 HR, (and hopefully some of you as well), stay relatively sane and “normal” was keeping up regular recordings of our HR Happy Hour Show/Podcast, now in it’s 12th year of production. While we obviously...
A New Administration Means New Impacts on HR and the Workplace
Even though the transition in the USA from the outgoing administration to the new Biden-Harris administration is only a couple of days old as I write this, there are already several HR and workplace policies, appointments, and directives that are very likely to impact work, workplaces, and HR in the coming months and years. A...
Recognizing Innovation In HR Technology: Oracle HCM Cloud
Over the summer months we at H3 HR Advisors have spent many hours attending virtual HR and HCM events, having countless Zoom calls with HR technology solution providers and doing our best to keep on top of all the developments in HR tech – and trust me, despite the pandemic there has been a tremendous...
Celebrating an HR Happy Hour Show Milestone!
We are happy to share the news of a happy milestone for our HR Happy Hour Show/Podcast – we recently surpassed 2 million downloads for the show’s history! We are pretty excited and certainly proud of the achievement but we also wanted to take an opportunity to wish our heartfelt thanks to all of our...
Introducing the HR Happy Hour Work Break VLOG
This week Trish McFarlane and Steve Boese kicked off the latest evolution of the HR Happy Hour Show, a live streamed video conversation we are calling the “HR Happy Hour Work Break”. The “Work Breaks’ will be short conversations about work, the workplace, and HR technology designed to pop up on your timeline in the...
Connect with the Next Generation Workforce This Week on the HR Happy Hour Show on Alexa
If there is anything certain about the world of work these days, perhaps it’s that almost nothing is certain. These are definitely incredibly challenging times for everyone, as people everywhere have either been directly impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, from either the actual virus itself, or from the economic fallout from the mitigation measures we’ve...
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Rapid Shifts in Labor Market Demand
As the Coronavirus Pandemic continues seemingly unabated in countries all over the world, the impacts on the US economy and the negative repercussions of widespread business and organizational disruption are coming more into focus. Entire industries, and the leading companies in those industries, have announced or certainly will soon announce significant workforce reductions or employee...
Trusted Coronavirus Information and a HR Happy Hour Podcast Network Update
As I write this update on March 12, 2020 here in the USA we are in somewhere in the later part of the early stages of coming to grips with the impact that the global COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic is having on work, workplaces, schools, businesses in general, travel, recreation, transportation, healthcare, economics – essentially every aspect...
Labor Market Update: Five Data Points All HR Leaders Should Know
by Steve Boese I’ve long been a self-described “labor market data geek.” I look forward to the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics data releases on jobs, labor turnover, labor participation rates and more. Hearing the latest labor market figures, looking at the trends, seeing how financial and political markets react to the latest data –...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Workplace Chatbot Technology
With the continued development and increased implementation of Artificial Intelligence tools in HR and workplace contexts, it will become more important to HR leaders and HR technologists to be able to assess the effectiveness of these technologies. One good example of this challenge is with AI-powered HR and workplace chatbot technology, one of the more...
The Shift in Investments in Employee Development and Reskilling
Many organizations in the US face a continuing challenge in finding workers with the skills they need, and of note is how corporate approaches to development and reskilling employees have shifted in the last few years. As the economic recovery following the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and the ensuing recession, continued into the...
Masterclass: Investing in the Organization – and Yourself
Towards the end of 2019 when the H3 HR Advisors team met to kind of wrap up the year and to talk about some of the projects, opportunities, and challenges awaiting us in 2020, we also talked about how we could get better, smarter, better able to take care of our clients and ourselves in...
Mental Health in the Workplace – An Important Topic for HR in 2020
Last year the organizers of the 2019 Health and Benefits Leadership Conference reached out to me to see if I would be interested in participating at the event to talk about the continuing emergence of AI technology in the HR and Benefits space. I think I surprised them when I said I would love to...
Year in Review: The Best of the HR Happy Hour Show in 2019
We had another fantastic year on the HR Happy Hour Show and Podcast marked by dozens of amazing shows. a slew of incredible guests and topics, and highlighted by the 10th anniversary of the show back in May. While new and original shows will be kicking off in early 2020, we wanted to take advantage...
Event Report: The Future of Reskilling – Content Mobile Talks, Barcelona, November 2019
One of the most important HR and talent issues facing leaders in business, HR, education, and governmental institutions across the globe is the issue of the ongoing and persistent “skills gap” – the challenge of current and prospective employees not possessing the updated skills needed and that organizations require today and moving forward. These skills...
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