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HR leader’s mental health counseling background helps her lead culture, engagement, and talent development at Fortune 500 company

HR Brew

She’d first worked at Insight from 2006 to 2010, joining as part of a merger, before re-joining the company in 2014, leading organizational development and eventually adding responsibilities including leadership training, DEI, and talent development. In reality, my job is so fun; I get to think about how to make Insight a best place to work.

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How To Prepare Your Company for a Recession or Economic Downturn

Great Place to Work

Employers are worried about how to generate revenue during an economic downturn, while employees are fearful for their jobs during a period typically synonymous with mass layoffs. From January 3, 2006, to February 1, 2014, the Thriving group saw their stock performance increase 35%, while the S&P 500 had just a 9% gain.

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Cloud reshaped HR from a paper-pushing function to a data-driven powerhouse critical to business success.

HR Brew

Amazons AWS first launched its commercial cloud, Amazon S3, in March 2006, followed by the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) later that year. HR leaders and the function can now test how to best leverage AI to automate and manage language data in practical and meaningful ways that were impossible before. The cumulus cloud: AWS.

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From Attic to Innovation: Jason Maxwell’s HR Leadership Journey

MP Wired For HR

Compliance as a Catalyst: Reading the Regulatory Tea Leaves In 2006, Massachusetts passed healthcare reform (RomneyCare). He quickly built a team of expert payroll professionals and shifted focus to what he did best: building relationships, especially with local CPA firms.

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The Top 13 HR Books That Every Professional Needs to Read

SquarePeg

Why Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed To Do and What You Can Do About It Ferdinand Fournies The book’s author Ferdinand Fournies shows professionals how to handle uncomfortable situations where employees’ focus strays. Quantitatively focused, this book exemplifies how technically minded the human resources space has become.

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How to make a high deductible health plan work for you

PeopleKeep

The number of covered workers on HDHPs has increased from just 4% in 2006 to nearly one-third of all covered workers in 2019 (30%). It’s no secret that the use of high deductible health plans (HDHPs) continues to skyrocket.

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“5 Things You Need To Know To Create a Successful Service Business” With Stewart Vernon

Thrive Global

The first five franchisees were challenging in that regard, and 2006 was a hard year to overcome to get the brand up and running, but failure was not an option. This taught me how to be an entrepreneur and the power that it can bring to create something of their own. You are a person of great influence.