Presentation Skills for Leaders

Presentation skills for leaders need to include the ability to visualize a positive outcome. With the help of a coach, a leader can better empathize with employees and provide information and answers that not only address the current situation but in...

Authentic Leadership, Employee Communication

Building and Leading Effective Teams

Focusing on teams within the workforce and building and leading effective teams are crucial to dealing with the dynamic and unpredictable environment in which your company operates....

Team Building

Trader Joe’s Unionizing: A Look At Internal Unions & Advice For Employers

Trader Joe's unionizing started when workers voted for a union in a single store, and did it as an independent union. What does this mean for the other 499 stores in the chain? What are the implications for your business that this is yet another addi...

Union Organizing

How Can We Overcome Workplace Drama in the Wake of COVID and the Great Resignation?

Drama in the workplace is not unusual, but drama incidences took on new meaning during the COVID pandemic and labor shortage....

Positive Employee Relations

The Talent Acquisition Advantage: The WilsonHCG Employment Brand Report

Meghan Ford and Gillisa Pope from Wilson HCG tell us why modern employment branding can be critical to talent acquisition....

Employer of Choice

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 Skills For Leaders

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