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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

That’s certainly the case for Michelle Reaux, VP of culture, engagement, and talent development at Insight Enterprises. Reaux started her career as a mental health counselor before transitioning into training, and then business development. That I am in a role that’s focused on policy or employee relations.

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

In turn, lowered psychological health follows from this condition” (Muchinsky, 2006, p. Muchinsky, 2006, p. Muchinsky wrote (2006, p. Leadership + Talent Development Advisor. Thus the loss of financial resources limits choices, thereby enhancing feelings of limited control over one’s life. References. Aamodt, M.

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

HR Brew

Workforce planning and talent development was important for all roles along the career ladder, not just the most senior rungs, and now these considerations could be made at scale. Amazons AWS first launched its commercial cloud, Amazon S3, in March 2006, followed by the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) later that year.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

Every I/O psychology textbook I examined — seven in all [Aamodt, 2013; Landy & Conte, 2013; Levy, 2017; Muchinsky, 2006; Riggio, 2018; Spector, 2017; Truxillo, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2016] — had a chapter dedicated to motivation. There’s no doubt in my mind that Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) References.

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Enabling Team Autonomy: What HR Needs to Know About Modern Organizational Models

AIHR

Founded in 2006, it eliminated traditional layers of management and empowered small, autonomous teams of nurses to deliver holistic, patient-centered care. Core practices like performance management , rewards, and talent development must be redesigned to shift ownership, accountability, and growth closer to the teams themselves.

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From War to Web3: Vietnam’s digital transformation story

People Matters

A major factor in Vietnam’s digital momentum is its focus on future-ready talent. FPT University, founded in 2006, addressed early skills gaps by training software engineers and AI specialists tailored to industry needs. Vietnam is now entering that conversation.

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An “Action Bias” Can Be Counterproductive

Workplace Psychology

The ability to think before you act, being deliberate, and surveying a situation is part of impulse control (the ability to resist or delay the impulse to act), an important factor in the Bar-On Model of Emotional-Social Intelligence (Bar-On, 2006; Multi-Health Systems, 2011). Leadership + Talent Development Advisor. References.