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Aligned & Integrated HR Policies, Handbooks, and Practices: Their Employee Recruitment, Engagement, Performance & Retention Value

by Regan MacBain Traub, CPC and Glenn Powell, Esq. The Business Case: Greater Investment and Creativity in Employee Tools Employers have experienced greater difficulty in talent acquisition, engagement, performance, and retention compared to before Covid (“The Post Pandemic Workplace: The Experiment Continues” by Jim Harter & Ben Wigert, Gallup. March 11, 2025): Before widespread, concerning…

2026 Workplace Forecast Reveals 5 HR Blind Spots

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Distribution 2026 Workplace Forecast Reveals 5 HR Blind Spots The Human Resource Consortium (TheHRC) today released its comprehensive “2026 Workplace Forecast,” identifying five critical HR blind spots that threaten to stunt organizational growth in the year ahead. The research reveals that organizations are systematically overlooking fundamental areas of human capital management…

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Beyond Hype: Creating Organizational Readiness for AI

Executive Summary Organizations rushing to adopt AI without a proper readiness assessment may be confronted by more than just a question of technology infrastructure. While the promise of efficiency is tempting, a disengaged workforce suffering from change fatigue can thwart even the best-laid plans. This article will argue that successful AI integration is a strategic…

Cultures of Caring and High Performance

Organizational High Performance: Organizational efficiency and effectiveness (performance) and fiscal wellbeing have held utmost importance for some time. However, if the true source of organizational performance is your people, have we been looking at the equation backwards? In our July, 2025 article “To What Degree Has HR Created a 4X Increase to Your Organization’s Performance…

The AI-HR Integration Potential:
Balancing Efficiency with the Human Element

Executive Summary In our increasingly complex business landscape, HR leaders must strategically integrate AI to optimize talent management and organizational effectiveness. This article outlines how AI can enhance HR functions, from data-driven decision-making to policy support, while emphasizing the critical need to preserve human intuition and empathy. It provides a framework for high-value AI integration…

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How Fully Integrated Human Resources Drives Employee Engagement

Summary This article shares how integrated Human Resource (HR) frameworks strategically drive employee engagement, performance, and value for organizations. From decades of experience in HR leadership, Global CHRO of the Year (HRO Magazine, 2015) and as a CEO in addition to consulting in HR & OD, Kawel LauBach identifies six (6) key levers and recommended…

To What Degree Has HR Created a 4X Increase to Your Organization’s Performance and Value?

Summary This article shares how integrated Human Resources (HR) and Organizational Development (OD) systems can generate a 4X to 8X increase in performance and value for organizations. Backed by global research and decades of consulting experience, it identifies key, data-driven levers of impact — including employee engagement, change management success, and the design of aligned…

The Competitive Consulting Advantage i⁵ > e

With thousands of consulting firms to choose from, how can you discern which few are high performing and high value against the many which are not? We’d like to introduce you to our simple, or perhaps not so simple, equation… i5 > e… that could lead you to enhance your organizational performance and value by…

The HRC’s AI in HR Positioning Statement

The Human Resource Consortium believes that: With few exceptions, HR functions must maintain a primary focus on strengthening people-centric organizational capacity including HR policies, practices, frameworks and communications to adeptly develop and manage their organization’s strongest and most enduring competitive edge… its culture. Performance and innovation are created by ‘engaged’ employees… those who align with…

The HRC’s Kawel LauBach Presents on Employee Engagement at CBIA 2025 Annual HR Conference

Invited by CBIA’s Diane Mokriski to present on the challenging topic of Secrets to Maintaining an Engaged Workforce, Kawel took CBIA’s audience of over 500 attendees through concepts of the Service-Profit Chain, today’s challenging engagement levels, internal branding, Herzberg’s Theory on Workforce Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers as well as Emotional Valence, culture fragility and the Pygmalian…