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A new year brings New Year's Resolutions. In keeping with this growth, the new year creates a great reason to do better this year than the last for not only the HR department, but the organization as a whole. Whatever way you prefer, make sure your employees feel like they are involved with the organization they work for. However, it's an easy way to answer employee questions and keepeveryone on the same page when it comes to employee benefits and expectations.

Identify strategic projects, high visibility assignments, strategic business opportunities, lean/efficiency projects, and short-term assignments in other divisions/departments and perhaps in tandem with your executive team. Ideally, the mentoring or coaching relationship should be structured with regular meetings at least quarterly (and if possible monthly or more frequently) and target specific skills that the rising star needs to develop. Emerging leaders have likely never been taught the fundamentals of leadership and management and need to be educated on them and engage in classroom experiences that help them build critical skills in communication, presentation, change management, performance management, conflict resolution, and more. Not only will it help you prepare for future management and leadership openings, but it will also help you engage and retain these critical employees that you likely can't afford to lose.

When Work Works project, recognizes employers that excel at offering a variety of employee initiatives such as work-life fit policies, flexible scheduling, and transition to parenthood programs. According to SHRM, the award is earned after a rigorous assessment that emphasizes the real-life experiences of employees and incorporates national benchmarks of employer practices from the National Study of Employers and the National Study of the Changing Workforce. It’s been key to our core values and longevity that we remain an employer of choice and continue to walk the walk,” said ERC president Kelly Keefe, adding that the company subscribes to an “F” workplace culture that includes being fun, flexible, and family-focused. After gathering 20 years of research on what makes workplaces great, it’s incumbent upon us to model behavior that attracts and retains top talent,” said ERC senior vice president Carrie Morse, who runs the company’s NorthCoast 99 awards program.

There are three main areas to consider in a good leadership development program: A full and comprehensive addressing of all the essentials to a good leader An awareness of the role that balance plays in leadership effectiveness. There are sports training facilities, for instance, that include development of mental toughness, learning to process loss and achievement, optimism, and positive mental imagery. With Diversity, you can bring along enriched thinking skills with increased creativity balanced against logic and standard work; better strategic thinking balanced against execution; and empathy with increased perspectives from different views which facilitates change. An acclaimed speaker and author, Dr. Watterson inspires individuals, teams, and organizations to clarify their vision, assess current resources, design learning steps, focus on action and commit to results.