StrategicCHRO360

Helping your people become value creators and growth drivers using AI‑augmented insight is the only way for your company to win from here, says Lior Arussy. Some thoughts on how to do it. https://lnkd.in/eSUr8eQZ

America's business leaders have spoken: Chief Executive Group's 2026 Best & Worst States for Business survey is out: https://lnkd.in/eiJ8kq4P Based on 650 responses by CEOs, presidents and business owners drawn from every state in the U.S., Texas remains No. 1 and Florida No. 2, with Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia rounding out the top five. South Carolina jumped seven spots to No. 6 and Ohio climbed five places to No. 7, the highest-ranked Midwestern state. Arizona rebounded two spots to No. 8 after slipping last year. Indiana falls to 9 and Virginia is 10. Looking at the list by region: * Southeast: Florida (No. 2), Tennessee (No. 3), North Carolina (No. 4) * Midwest: Ohio (No. 7), Indiana (No. 9), Wisconsin (No. 17) * West/Southwest: Texas (No. 1), Arizona (No. 8), Utah (No. 11) * Northeast & Mid-Atlantic: Virginia (No. 10), New Hampshire (No. 22), Pennsylvania (No. 26)

High growth periods have special challenges when it comes to culture. CPO Joanna Kmiec, CHRL discusses aligning HR with business strategy throughout different phases of growth: https://lnkd.in/emdz53BF

Productivity is a huge concern for organizations this year, particularly as AI promises to add efficiency to nearly every level of the workplace. But if better productivity is the goal, there’s one metric that leaders aren’tpaying enough attention to, says Jared Brown, CEO of time tracking platform Hubstaff: focus time. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eVPf4UcZ

Calling a boss a “micromanager” is hardly a compliment. It usually means the person is overbearing, controlling and unpleasant to be around. But there’s a reason so many workplaces are full of them. As Ashley Herd, a former head of HR and general counsel across multiple industries, writes in a piece for StrategicCHRO360, “Micromanaging works. That’s what makes it so tempting." But there’s a big downside for organizations that let micromanagers run free. Here are Herd's tips for loosening the reins without losing results: https://lnkd.in/eRcvCUAy

When employees are struggling with their work, what can CHROs do? Simplify, says Holly Grogan, president of Appspace, who offers lessons about streamlining overly cumbersome workplace processes to ease friction for employees and help them do their best work. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eaMcxiND

If you perpetually feel like you and your team are just not on the same page, it might not be an issue of productivity, but of attunement, says Nidhi Tewari, LCSW. She has spent the past six years working with organizations like LinkedIn, Warner Brothers Discovery and Molson Coors to help re-think work culture, well-being and communication. Here's her advice for becoming a more tuned-in leader: https://lnkd.in/ewVt4h5P

Janet Hanofee, SPHR knows all about how hard it can be to not just fill an open role but find the exact right talent for the job. Until recently, she served as the CHRO of ITC Federal, a Fairfax, Virginia-based company that provides IT solutions for federal agencies, where she competed for those skilled in artificial intelligence, machine learning and other new technologies. (Hanofee just became principal and director of people operations for Booz Allen.) “Hiring tech talent is hard. Hiring cleared, specialized tech talent in AI, ML and cyber who want to work outside the contiguous U.S. is ‘hold-my-coffee-level’ hard,” she tells our Katie Kuehner-Hebert in an interview. Hanofee has developed a detailed strategy to attract the right people that includes insights for just about any organization looking to hire today. It starts with a simple—but certainly not easy—approach: “Retention is always the best recruiting strategy.” Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eAEqZiuX

‘What inner lies are you telling yourself today?’’ That’s the question from HR leader Anne Lackey in her latest post for StrategicCHRO360. Her concern: Leaders routinely opt for short-term relief by avoiding the truth about some of their actions. “A decision gets made, tension drops and the day moves on,” she writes. “What remains unseen is the interest that begins accruing when the underlying issue stays unresolved.” Lackey is talking about “the quiet accumulation of decisions made under pressure that never get revisited.” This concern is helpful for CHROs to consider from at least two angles: for the leaders their work is connected to, and for themselves as leaders: https://lnkd.in/eeKJgppM

For executive leaders who are already high-earners, financial compensation won’t keep them from job hunting—but these other factors will: https://lnkd.in/eDwJWSBB