SHRM Blog

Last week I had a chance to bring together an amazing panel to talk about how to support parents in a challenging work environment. This conversation featured:

• Donielle Buie, HR leader in charge of employee wellbeing at the Broad Institute
• Shana Sweeney, CHRO of SugarCRM
• Jonathan Corke, marketing leader at Bright Horizons

In the video below, you can hear each of these leaders talking about how they are tackling the challenge of supporting parents, regardless of whether work is remote or not. 

Q: I oversee a couple of departments, and I’m noticing a trend.  With more people working from home, I’m finding they are less likely to take vacation than other years.  Maybe because travel is difficult, or maybe it’s just awkward.

Much research says that to keep up productivity and morale -and to avoid burnout,  people need to take some time off to recharge. But with employees reluctant to take time off, how can we as managers normalize the use of annual leave during these weird time of Covid-19?

A: When we...

Job interviews mark the ending period of your search, and after that comes negotiation and accepting an offer. I typically advise that clients keep going with their career search until they have a formal offer. Why count your chickens before they've fully hatched? Having more than one offer can also increase your bargaining power, something I spoke about here. 

Not getting the job you want can be disheartening, and that's why I wanted to share two things you should never do before an interview. 

1. Unnecessarily raise your stress levels...

The basis of leadership can be charted in a model that illustrates the two competing sides. On one side is leadership that creates change by being process-oriented and the other side is a relationship-oriented approach. While transactional leadership involves determining the tasks, rewarding goal achievement and punishing failure in attaining goals, transformational leadership focuses on the critical human assets such as commitment and thus helps followers to effectively implement organizational changes with both efficiency and effectiveness. Just as leaders need to be both autocratic and democratic at times, they also...