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🌿 May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are preparing something amazing! 🌐 A Virtual Summit dedicated to workplace wellbeing and mental health! Three days of panels gathering Senior HR and business leaders and experts from diverse industries and latitudes to explore how to position wellbeing as a performance driver, addressing the systemic causes of mental health risk, and building leadership and organizational practices that enable sustainable work. This 3-day, 100% virtual, free-to-attend event is brought to you by Deep Care and Leading Pathways. Check out some of the awesome speakers who will join us in two weeks! 🔷 Dr. Brandi Fannell, Founder & Principal Advisor, The Anchored Collective Co. 🔷 Nena Dimovska, Head of People Success, Semos Cloud 🔷 Juliette Dupré, Chief People Officer & Interim COO, OtherSide Entertainment 🔷 Aman Malhi, Director, People and Culture, Refrigerative Supply Limited 🔷 Jes Baumeister, Director of Human Resources 🔷 Tiffany Deans, Founder + CEO, GroundingWork 🔷 Amber Myers, Manager, Human Resources Business Partner, CGI 🔷 Christina Moran, Leader of People Operations, ThenDesign Architecture / Acusights Solutions 🔷 Jocelyn Hernandez, Founder & Principal Consultant, J H Consultant LLC SAVE THE DATE! 📅 When: May 5-7 | 07:00 - 11:00 AM Pacific Time 📜 All attendees who participate live or watch the post-event recordings may download a certificate of participation. 👑 Premium members of our community gain a @credly badge and HR Credits (13.5 SHRMs + 13.5 HRCIs + 13.5 IHRMs) 👉 JOIN US! Check out the agenda and register here: beta-app.hackinghrlab.io/events/workpla… #Workplacewellbeing #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #HackingHR #HRLeadership #HRCommunity #employeeexperience

Most companies think they have a skills gap. But what they actually have is a learning capacity gap — and it's a much harder problem to solve. 🔷 40% of core job skills will change over the next 5 years. You can't train your way out of that. You need systems that help people learn faster than work evolves. This diagram breaks down the speed of change: Skills disruption ➡️ the need for talent velocity ➡️ business agility. It's an entirely different way of thinking about L&D. We had a conversation with Panos Siozos, CEO of @LearnWorlds, and he shared several examples of how organizations are doing it. 🌟 Read the full article here: bit.ly/4rRPCdG #FutureofWork #Skillsgap #Workforceplanning #LearningandDevelopment #HRLeadership #EmployeeExperience #Employeetraining #Upskilling

This May, join us at The Workplace Wellbeing and Mental Health Summit! Prepare for the most powerful event, where HR leaders, consultants, and wellbeing advocates will come together for 3 days to explore how to design holistic wellbeing and mental health strategies that support both people and organizational success. 🌟 Here are some of the leaders you’ll hear from: - Jessica Lewis, Human Resources Director, PointsBet Canada. - Jasmine Moseley Beal, Founder, President & CEO, Virtue Key Consulting Group - Veronica Estrella, Founder, Flourish at Work - Malvika Jethmalani, Founder, Atvis Group - Lisa Friscia, President and Founder, Franca Consulting - Sarah Tariq, Sr. HR Specialist, Ferrero - Stephanie Lemek, Founder & CEO, The Wounded Workforce - Anita Barbero, CEO, Renew Your Health - Roberta Richards, Senior Director Human Resources, Netcracker Technology The summit is 100% virtual and free to attend, and it’s brought to you by our amazing sponsors DeepCare and Leading Pathways. 📅 When: May 5-7 | 07:00 - 11:25 AM Pacific Time 📜 All attendees who participate live or watch the post-event recordings may download a certificate of participation. 👑 Premium members of our community gain a @credly badge and HR Credits (13.5 SHRMs + 13.5 HRCIs + 13.5 IHRMs) 👉 JOIN US! Register for free: beta-app.hackinghrlab.io/events/workpla… #Workplacewellbeing #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #HackingHR #HRLeadership #HRCommunity #employeeexperience #SHRM #HRCI

Understanding human pain is the hardest and most important work HR does. 👉 Check out our latest post: bit.ly/4u0TnyS #workplacewellbeing #mentalhealth #HRLeadership #HR #leadership #culture #mentalhealthstigma #mentalhealthmatters

⭐ STARTING IN TWO WEEKS! The Workplace Wellbeing and Mental Health Summit! Our May Summit is dedicated to wellbeing and mental health (May 5-7, 07:00 - 11:25 AM Pacific Time) and will bring together HR and business leaders, consultants, and wellbeing advocates to explore how to build healthier organizations where people and businesses thrive. You will engage in peer discussions, gain real-world frameworks and examples to understand how companies are doing it, and walk out with a clear roadmap to start applying some of these strategies in your workplace. This event is 100% virtual and free to attend, and it’s brought to you by our amazing sponsors and partners: Deep Care and Leading Pathways. 📜 All attendees who participate live or watch the post-event recordings may download a certificate of participation. 👑 Premium members of our community gain a @Credly badge and HR Credits (13.5 SHRMs + 13.5 HRCIs + 13.5 IHRMs) 👉 JOIN US! Check out the agenda and register here: beta-app.hackinghrlab.io/events/workpla… Some of the topics we will explore together: - Aligning wellbeing and mental health with organizational performance - Understanding how work-related stress impacts resilience and outcomes - Strengthening leadership accountability for wellbeing - Designing work to support sustainability and recovery - Equipping managers to support mental health effectively - Managing workload, prioritization, and team capacity - Identifying and addressing psychological risks early - Building psychological safety and trust across teams - Using data to measure wellbeing and guide decisions - Embedding sustainable work practices into everyday operations 👉 JOIN US!

Before automating anything or using AI in a workflow, the first and most important step is understanding the actual workflow. Not how it looks in SOPs, but how it is in reality. When you map a workflow from start to end, it’s easier to see the friction points: for example, data is lost and re-entered manually, information is disconnected, and handoffs in specific steps are unclear. This cheat sheet summarizes the steps you can take to map any workflow before automating or using AI. 📕 If you want to go deeper into workflow redesign, we created a mini e-book in partnership with @WorkleapHQ In it, we cover: - How to map workflows using the “Capture → Interpret → Act” model. - Typical friction points across tools and teams. - How to improve workflows before adding tech tools - The role of ownership, oversight, and guardrails. - Where AI can support decisions without replacing them. 👉 Download the e-book here: bit.ly/3PAkK45 #AIinHR #HRLeadership #workflowredesign #SMBs #HumanResources #HR

Your Managers Don't See What You See... @Emtrain has just released a report with insights based on 6.5 million employee training responses, revealing three critical gaps: 🚨 85% of employees failed to recognize a textbook retaliation scenario, the most litigated area of harassment and discrimination law 🚨 75% underestimated a clear case of sexual harassment when it occurred during a work trip 🚨 50% missed harassment disguised as mentorship or a positive professional relationship Given these metrics, it's time to start providing additional training and support to managers beyond the annual compliance training campaign. 👉 You can download the Harassment Prevention Spotlight here: bit.ly/3Q3H99Y #HRcompliance #workplaceharassament #employeeclaims #harassmentprevention #employeerelations #casemanagement #workplaceinvestigations #leadership #management

What’s the real risk for organizations? What no one is saying. And like it or not, leaders shape what gets said and what doesn’t. 👉 Check out our latest post! bit.ly/41AZQVa #leadership #HRLeadership #psychologicalsafety #wellbeing #mentalhealth

“Stop attaching the horse to the car: AI fails when organizations try to bolt it onto old systems instead of redesigning workflows.” That analogy (shared by one speaker at the AI Experience Summit) stayed with us. Before integrating AI into workflows, you first need to understand how decisions move through the organization. And when you do the exercise of mapping one real workflow (not the ones on paper!), documenting the real steps teams follow, including informal handoffs, shadow systems, and delays that are not “officially” mentioned in SOPs, you will identify where decisions get stuck and why, and will discuss and clarify who owns them, what could be improved to remove friction and how. This mini-ebook, co-created with @WorkleapHQ , aims to help you do this exercise by starting small, with one workflow. Inside, you’ll find a simple way to: ➡️ Map how work actually happens across people, tools, and decisions ➡️ Identify where information gets lost, re-entered, delayed, or reconstructed ➡️ Rethink the workflow so decisions are clearer, faster, and more consistent Only after that does it make sense to evaluate where AI can support the workflow by connecting signals, building context, and helping teams act on better information. If you’re leading HR or operations in a growing organization, this is a practical place to start. 👉 You can access the full guide here: bit.ly/4cy9rlK #HRLeadership #PeopleOps #WorkflowDesign #HRTech #AIinHR #SMBs

When we think about workplace wellbeing and mental health, it’s important to understand the conditions in which employees operate. The Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model in organizational psychology explains how work conditions influence burnout, engagement, and performance. It comes down to two forces: Job demands: workload, time pressure, and complexity. When high, they require sustained physical and mental effort. Job resources: clarity, autonomy, support, and recognition. These help people manage demands, stay motivated, and perform effectively. ⚡ When demands and resources are out of balance, wellbeing suffers. ⚖️ When they're aligned, teams are more likely to sustain performance over time. This applies to every employee, including managers. In fact, managers often experience this imbalance more intensely. When they face sustained pressure, limited control, and unclear priorities, their capacity to support others drops significantly. The same conditions that drive burnout in teams affect managers first. And that creates a ripple effect: the way managers experience work shapes how their teams experience it. If your teams are in the burnout quadrant, the issue isn't resilience. It's high demands meeting insufficient resources. That calls for system-level action: reducing competing priorities, rebalancing workload, and clarifying what matters most. How often do you analyze Job Demands and Resources in your organization? What frameworks do you use to understand this balance? #MentalHealthMonth #WorkplaceWellbeing #ManagerWellbeing #EmployeeWellbeing #MentalHealthAtWork

The biggest hurdle for HR consultants? The perception that we don’t "get" the business. It’s a lonely spot to be in, especially when you’re working remote and trying to shift from tactical work to a seat at the strategy table. Finding a community that actually shares real-life, actionable examples is been a game-changer. If you’re looking for a group that understands the bridge between HR and operations, check out our programs here: bit.ly/3Q1cfzd #FractionalHR #HRStrategy #BusinessOps #WorkCommunity

Most organizations don't have a wellbeing problem. They have a work design problem. A leadership accountability problem. A "we added a meditation app and called it a strategy" problem. The Workplace Wellbeing and Mental Health Summit exists for leaders who already know the surface-level stuff isn't working and are ready to do something about it. Three days. Real frameworks. Conversations that don't sugarcoat what's actually breaking people at work. 👇 Register here: bit.ly/4tDqZT6 What's the one wellbeing challenge in your organization that no program has been able to touch yet? Drop it below. Tag an HR or people leader who needs to be in this room. Share if you're done watching wellbeing get treated like a perk instead of a priority. #WorkplaceWellbeing #MentalHealthAtWork #HRLeadership #HackingHR #PeopleStrategy

Silence isn't harmony. It's what happens after people have learned that speaking up doesn't go well for them. The teams that never push back, never raise concerns, never disagree in meetings, they're not your healthiest teams. They're your most conditioned ones. 👀 When did silence become the norm on your team, and what do you think caused it? Tag a leader who understands the difference between a quiet room and a safe one. Share if this one hit a little too close to home. #WorkplaceCulture #PsychologicalSafety #HRLeadership #HackingHR #ToxicWorkplace

Engagement scores tell you what people were willing to say on a Tuesday afternoon survey. They don't tell you who's running on empty, which manager is quietly burning their team out, or why your best people are starting to mentally check out while still hitting their numbers. HR knows. Because we hear it everywhere the survey doesn't reach. 📋 Which one of these hit closest to home for you? Drop it in the comments. Tag an HR leader who's been sitting on this knowledge with nowhere to take it. Share if your organization is overdue for a more honest conversation about what engagement data actually captures. #EmployeeEngagement #HRLeadership #HackingHR #WorkplaceCulture #PeopleStrategy

We've somehow turned exhaustion into a measuring contest. Someone's always had it worse. Someone's always working longer hours. So we keep going, convinced our tiredness doesn't count until it's the most extreme in the room. It doesn't work that way. 💤 How often do you actually let yourself rest without justifying it first? Tag someone who needs to hear this today. Share if your workplace could use a serious reset on how it treats burnout. #WorkplaceWellbeing #HackingHR #BurnoutPrevention #HRLeadership

Before you write someone up, check if they're burned out. Slower responses. Missed deadlines. Withdrawal. Irritability. These aren't always performance problems, they're often survival responses from someone who has been running on empty for way too long. Burnout doesn't always look like someone breaking down. Sometimes it looks like someone quietly falling apart while still showing up. Leaders and HR: the diagnosis changes the treatment. 💬 Which of these have you seen misread in your workplace? #HackingHR #Burnout #EmployeeWellbeing #HRLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #PeopleFirst #ManagerEffectiveness

HR designs a thoroughbred. Managers implement a stick figure. 😅 The gap between policy design and manager execution is one of HR's oldest pain points, and it doesn't close with a better process doc. It closes with better manager development. 💬 Sound familiar? #HackingHR #ManagerEffectiveness #HRHumor #FutureOfWork #HRLeadership

Modern HR work looks different everywhere you go, different roles, different titles, different expectations. So how do we build a shared language for what great HR actually looks like? That's exactly what the Global HR Capability Framework was built to answer. Developed by 100+ experts across 18 countries and 28 industries, this is the most comprehensive reference model for HR capability ever created, organized into 18 domains, 180 competencies, and 3 proficiency levels that give HR professionals and organizations a common structure to grow from. Whether you're defining roles, building learning programs, or setting capability expectations across a global team, this framework gives you the architecture to do it with clarity and confidence. And it's Credly verified. ✓ The future of HR is structured, measurable, and globally aligned. 📌 Explore the framework: …alcapabilityframework.hackinghrlab.io #HackingHR #HRCapability #FutureOfHR #HRLeadership #PeopleStrategy #HRFramework #HRDevelopment #GlobalHR

This is what community looks like. 🗽 Our NYC Chapter gathered recently for dinner, and this is exactly why we do what we do. Real conversations, genuine connections, and a shared belief that the future of work is built together. Hacking HR has chapters around the world, and they exist for one reason: to bring the best of our global community to your city. Whether you want to lead, speak, mentor, or simply show up and connect, there is a place for you here. Getting involved isn't just good for your network. It's good for the profession. 👉 Find your chapter and get involved: bit.ly/4vkpcEk #HackingHR #HRCommunity #HRLeadership #FutureOfWork #HRNetwork #PeopleFirst #HackingHRChapters #NewYork