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Emerging HR Leader Trends – What are the HOT skills for emerging HR Pros?
By Sam Borsari It’s a Tale as Old as Time – Effective Communication is Key Emerging HR professionals are faced with a rapidly changing business environment, which has greatly emphasized the value of effective communication. Hybrid and remote workforces have become a reality for many, which means there are greater communication barriers than there were…
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Learning & Development Trends in 2025
By Val Harlow As each year starts, it’s a great time to look at what will be trending, especially in the Learning & Development space. Focusing on trends in organizational learning helps companies increase their connection to employees, understand what they need in the learning space and how to deliver on it. What are the…
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Essential Leadership Competencies for 2025
By John Henderson As we have entered the year 2025, it is time to focus in on what our people leaders need to be successful this year. Let’s begin by defining “competency” – it is “Knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors that contribute to individual and organizational performance.” In looking back to 2014, the top…
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Conscious Unbossing: How to Address this Rising Trend Among Gen Z and Millennials
By Pam Thornton “Conscious Unbossing” is a mindset that has been adopted by more than half of the young professionals that are working, according to a recent Forbes article. Gaining individual expertise over pursuing a management role is highly preferred by the Gen Z and Millennial demographic. These employees are deliberately opting for less hierarchical,…
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EAA National Business Trends Survey and webinar announcement
By Allison Ebner At the start of each new year, we are filled with optimism and renewed energy as we drive our initiatives forward within our organizations. Whether you are an organizational executive or a human resource professional, it’s helpful to understand key trends from the regional and national business climate as you move through…
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Resolve to Call
By Marquita Rhodes If you’re like me, your New Year’s resolution probably revolves around finding ways to maximize every dollar in your budget. Your membership with the Employers Association of the NorthEast (EANE) should be no different. Might I suggest you start maximizing your membership by making full use of the HR Hotline? In 2024,…
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Top priorities for organizations in 2025
By Allison Ebner ‘Progress is impossible without change’George Bernard Shaw As we scan the landscape of the past five years to predict our future fortunes, there are some recurring themes that we can count on to be familiar once again in 2025. One of those themes is change. To be more specific, the pace of…
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NLRB Decisions Continue to Constrain an Employers Ability to Communicate with Their Employees
By Mark Adams Despite the winds of political change and a turnover in administrations on the horizon next year, that has not deterred the National Labor Relations Board from continuing to push out controversial decisions that reverse long-standing precedent. Most recently, the Board has issued two decisions that undermine when and how employers can communicate…