Half-Year Update: The Impact of the NLRB in 2022

As the mid-term elections approach, we at IRI are pausing to examine the state of labor right now, including the idea of belonging in the workplace, internal worker unions, national organizing campaigns and worker sentiment, and what is likely to be ...

Labor Law

Effective Listening For Leaders

Great leaders know how to listen. Learn the art of effective listening and improve your relationships, communication, and leadership skills today....

Employee Communication, Leadership Training, Positive Employee Relations

360-Degree Listening and Its Role In Leadership

We're not born with the natural ability to listen - it's a skill that must be learned. Learn more about how 360-degree listening can improve your leadership skills, no matter what industry you are in....

Employee Communication, Leadership Training, Positive Employee Relations

Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefining Career Development

Julie Winkle Giulioni is here to redefine career development and show us how employee development can serve as key leverage in engaging and retaining your workforce....

Leadership Training

How Can I Use Blended Learning to Elevate the Leadership Learning Journey?

Blended learning is a strategy for elevating the leadership journey by delivering learning experiences at the scale and speed needed to achieve results by utilizing a variety of modalities....

Leadership Training

An Employee Engagement Strategy: All Leader Rounding

While leader rounding is common in healthcare settings, it is a strategy that any business can utilize when rethinking employee engagement and the employee voice....

Authentic Leadership, Disengaged Employees

How Transparent Communication Can Quiet Dissonance

When a large academic health system began to standardize pay practices across multiple facilities, leadership recognized that trust in change was essential—and the way to build trust was through transparent communication....

Employee Communication

Digital Organizing Campaigns: Labor’s TikTok Tactics

Daniel Schwartz, Partner at Shipman & Goodwin and Creator of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog explains why it's time for professionals to take digital communication and union social media tactics seriously....

Positive Employee Relations, Union Campaign Communication

Rethinking Employee Engagement and the Employee Voice

Organizations are rethinking employee engagement for very good reasons. The workforce's needs and work are changing so fast that employers spend a lot of time just trying to keep up....

Disengaged Employees, Positive Employee Relations

The Value of a Culture of Ownership: Creating Alignment Among Teams

This article explains how the concept of a culture of ownership applies to bringing divergent stakeholder groups together to increase a company or organization's value....

Authentic Leadership, Team Building

Sound Design in the New Workplace

Alex Coutts, SVP and Head of Experience at Made Music Studio, joins us to discuss work sound and the impact sound can have on the workplace....

Employee Communication, Team Building

Overcoming the “I Quit” Culture: Why Are Employees Still Leaving in Record Numbers?

The "I quit" culture is one in which employees believe they don't have a voice, no matter how young or old they are, and managers don't care about their inter-generational conflicts as long as the company makes a profit. ...

Disengaged Employees, Positive Employee Relations