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How CHROs can strengthen their careers with informal advisors

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Since the onset of the pandemic, the role of the CHRO has become increasingly complex, as HR leaders have tackled everything from creating new work environments to assisting employees with rapidly rising mental health issues and financial wellness concerns. Now, CEOs are pushing for a return to the office while employees resist.

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This game developer CHRO has found a winning talent strategy

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While the organization, founded in 2007 and known for developing such games as Words with Friends and FarmVille, has long had a standout culture—rooted in collaboration and innovation—it had gone through a “rough patch,” Ryan says, with a downturn in morale and business outcomes, making it harder to both recruit and retain top talent.

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UKG Workforce Institute Welcomes City of Memphis CHRO Alex Smith to Its Advisory Board

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Named an HRO Today magazine CHRO of the Year in 2020, Smith has been highly praised for positioning the City of Memphis as a 21st-century model for city governments. In her role at The Workforce Institute, Smith will provide firsthand perspectives from the CHRO of a city with more than one million residents.

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What Texas Children’s is doing to help leaders boost culture

HRExecutive

Advertisement - About 1,200 of those are people leaders—whom Linda Aldred, executive vice president and CHRO—says are the “amplifiers” of the organization’s culture and the key link to telling the C-suite what is on the minds of its workforce. That was particularly evident throughout the height of COVID, Aldred says. .

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#HRCongress18 Dave Ulrich on Digital HR at the CHRO Virtual Summit

Strategic HCM

I was working on client and other things at home last week but did manage to catch the HR Congress' virtual CHRO summit.

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GetFive Names Its 2021 HR Heroes

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Paraphrasing the Economist, boardrooms turned to their corporate finance chiefs when the financial crisis rocked the business world in 2007-09. Monique Jefferson, CHRO, New York Public Radio. Mark Rankin, CHRO, BeyondTrust. But, this year is surely in a league of its own! ” — Rama Kondru, CTO & CIO of Medidata.

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How to Elevate HR (And Keep the C-Suite Happy)

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million quits (now higher than the first month of the recession, December 2007). John Boudreau shares a telling story from a CHRO in their first leadership meeting, chaired by the CEO. Instead, he said, “Why don’t I ask our new CHRO to say a few words about how HR will contribute to our strategic success?”. million in December.