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AI Forum: Strategic HR Leaders Explore AI Opportunities and Challenges

In early Fall 2025, JLPA led an AI Forum discussion designed to provide a foundational understanding of AI concepts for HR leaders; to explore challenges, opportunities, and risks associated with AI adoption; and to engage HR leaders in a discussion about real-world HR use cases. Here’s what we learned.

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Are Half of Your Leaders and Their Teams Burned Out?

Burnout is increasingly becoming a pressing issue in today’s fast-paced work environment. It’s not just a personal struggle; it affects teams and overall productivity. In this first of two posts, we explore the state of employee burnout in the workplace and why it matters. How to spot burnout in leaders and their teams.

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10 Strategies for Managers/Leaders to Strengthen Relationships with Team Members

Our last post explored the business case and challenges associated with strengthening strong manager-employee relationships. We also identified several metrics that can provide organizations with valuable insights into the state of relationships between employers and employees within an organization. In this follow-up post, we offer leaders 10 strategies for building stronger relationships with their team members.

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How Strong Are Your Manager and Employee Relationships Really?

As one of the top 2024 HR issues, this post explores the significant challenges organizational leaders face today. We consider the business case for strong employer-employee relationships, the challenges managers face in realizing them, and ten strategies that organizational and HR leaders can leverage to measure the strength of manager-employee relationships. Plus, we highlight six organizations that are recognized for fostering positive employer-employee relationships.

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How is Generative AI Transforming Your Job and the Workplace?

In this first of two posts, we consider the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) on the workplace, with particular emphasis on jobs. In a follow-up post in this series, we’ll take a closer look at how HR is leveraging GAI broadly within the function, as well as specifically within the learning and development arena – a subject that is near and dear to our hearts at JLPA.

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How to Use Group Facilitation to Drive Team and Group Coaching

In a recent client engagement, we leveraged various coaching approaches, including group facilitation, team coaching (and potentially individual/executive coaching down the road). It’s a great example of how starting the client journey with group facilitation can shape the direction of subsequent project phases. We also include a side-by-side comparison of team coaching with group coaching.

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Unleash Your Inner Courageous Leader: Transform Your Conversations Today

There’s a significant cost to organizations when its leaders and employees avoid having difficult conversations. It’s why one of our clients engaged us recently to deliver a learning event during an offsite event for its leaders. We cover some steps leaders can take to strengthen their skills and share an outline of the program we delivered for our client.

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