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This HR leader is applying her career lessons to finding and retaining workers in construction

HR Brew

For the former, she’s launched initiatives including educating elementary and middle school students about a career in construction, and for the latter she’s focused on developing supervisors’ coaching skills with their own staff. Coaching and mentoring our managers. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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AI, talent shortages, and distrust: These are the biggest challenges HR pros are bracing for in 2025

HR Brew

Scott Mayo, CPO, Confluent Health “The biggest challenge is going to be keeping up with the speed of AI and innovation—this includes not just evolving how we train people to use technology, but also how we use technology to fundamentally change the way people learn.

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This nonprofit leader acts as a “no-fee staffing agency” connecting overlooked young professionals to corporate jobs

HR Brew

Through training programs, paid internships, and placement services with local employers, Hopeworks helps young, diverse professionals ages 17 to 26 get their foot in corporate America’s door. So [we’re] acting as a continued mentor, career coach for them, to advocate for themselves, and find those spaces.”

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Professional and business services employees are thinking twice before quitting

HR Brew

Do we need people trained in certain areas?’” HR leaders and executives need to spend more on upskilling, training, and coaching their employees, Mazzullo said, because doing so will help retention in the long run. “It’s when you can look at everything, really, with an analytical lens and decide, ‘Okay, what needs to change?

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Next Level eLearning – The AI-powered Courseware Coach

Introducing Willow from WILL Interactive – a new artificial instructor technology that coaches users through eLearning content to increase training ROI. Join us for a webinar hosted in partnership with WILL Interactive to learn how AI-powered courseware coaches can elevate your training to the next level.

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Minimizing turnover risk for today’s workforce: 4 key priorities

HRExecutive

A high rate of voluntary turnover not only means an organization is at risk for higher costs (to hire and train replacements, for example) but can also mean increased knowledge loss, declining morale and other intangible costs that can be just as damaging as the hard dollar costs of high voluntary turnover.

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Career Pathing: Developing a Big-Picture Strategy

Primalogik

Then, they can provide ongoing coaching tailored to individual goals. Coach them to success, so they’ll excel in a next-level position. Earning new credentials , training in a new area, or upgrading an existing skill set are examples of such goals. Inform managers about prospective future staffing needs.

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Agile Feedback: The Secret Weapon of Successful Organizations

Speaker: Angie Wideman-Powell, Director of Human Resources, ClearCompany

Managers will likely require coaching on how to provide employees with meaningful feedback in a professional and effective way. As companies make this culture shift, they need to be prepared to deliver feedback in an agile manner that provides employees with necessary corrective feedback in real-time.