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People-Driven Engagement: How HR Partners with Leaders to Drive Engagement

Join Abbracci Group’s CEO Keri Ohlrich, PhD and COO Kelly Guenther as they explore how you can develop these relationships with leaders and influence engagement in your company.

How We Helped a Company Turn a Major Challenge into an Exciting Opportunity

Recently, a national company found themselves facing a potentially overwhelming challenge, albeit a challenge that’s familiar to many companies: their industry’s landscape had transformed dramatically, and they needed to keep up.

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3 Questions to Ask Before Launching an HR Transformation

Undertaking any significant changes in HR can be exciting — and unsettling. Project failure is a real possibility. In fact, a study conducted by the Project Management Institute shows that only 69% of businesses achieved their project’s original goals, while 15% of projects were classified as failures.

Leadership

Please Don’t Text Your Employees at 9 p.m

With our constant access to and connection with technology, achieving a work/life balance is becoming more difficult. There are benefits, of course, in having around-the-clock access to people and information, but in a 24/7 culture, it’s important to take responsibility for yourself and to create your own boundaries.

Case Studies

How We Helped a Manufacturing Company Reduce Turnover by Investing in Leadership

In March 2018, we were contacted by a Midwest manufacturing company that was struggling with a very serious problem—turnover rates were regularly reaching as high as 38%.

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Why You Are Your Most Important Investment

If you want to succeed in business – and in life – you’ve got to make a serious investment in yourself. Whether you’re leading a team of twenty or working solo, you need to be the leader others want to follow.

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Here’s How to Future-Proof HR

For a long time, HR was the steward of the organization. It ensured that rules were followed, laws were complied with and people-related processes ran smoothly.

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Crisis Management: Be Proactive

You are an HR Warrior by running into the building. But firefighters don’t just run in without training and a plan.

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The HR Leader’s Potential (The HR Risk Podcast – March 20, 2019)

Keri Ohlrich & Kelly Guenther, co-founders of Abbracci Group, join The HR Risk Podcast to discuss the HR leader’s potential and the book The Way of the HR Warrior.

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The Need for HR Warriors

Learn about why there’s a need for HR Warriors and actions you can take to develop yourself as an HR Warrior!

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Discovering the Scope of HR’s Influence

Like every other profession, HR has its share of rock stars. We can all name them, and we are likely to agree on most of them, so I won’t bother doing it here. But what is endlessly fascinating to me is how some HR leaders grow huge, expansive and impactful careers.

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Debunking Five Harmful HR Myths

Human Resources has many connotations, and several of them are, unfortunately, negative. Ask five people to explain the job to you, and you’ll get a different description every time.

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7 Ways Workshops Make you a Better HR Professional

Now, we know not all workshops are made equal. We’ve attended our fair share, so we know first-hand what makes an experience memorable and valuable. That’s why we design all our workshops to be introspective and action-oriented. We want our workshops to mean something for people and to inspire them to take real action. An […]

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3 Tips to Achieve Real Personal Development

Personal development is a bit of a buzzword these days. The term has become a lot like “self-care.” Somehow, the meaning has changed into indulging ourselves and making sure we are happy. Now, self-care is important, but the real meaning of personal development is a little different. For us, it means continuous learning. It means […]

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Old vs. New HR Professionals

“Oh no, HR is in the room. We better be on our best behavior.” This sentiment is one of many outdated notions surrounding HR. Notions such as: HR is the compliance police. HR is the therapy department. HR professionals don’t have any skills beyond being good talkers. Wrong, wrong and wrong again! HR is so […]

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HR Warriors® vs. HR Weenies™

Boring, administrative, easy, stiff, nerdy, police, buzzkill, overhead, party planners, tour guides. Have you ever heard these descriptors used to describe HR? There are a lot of stereotypes surrounding HR. Unfortunately, some of them exist for a reason. It’s true, HR can act like Weenies, blindly following the rules while lacking an understanding of deeper […]

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Finding the Way of the HR Warrior (Workforce – November 7, 2018)

Author Keri Ohlrich asks whether you’re an HR warrior or HR weenie in her new book, “The Way of the HR Warrior.” Workforce Editorial Director Rick Bell caught up with Ohlrich via email.

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Let’s Create Great Partnerships Between HR and Business Leaders

When HR professionals and business leaders have great relationships, the work they can accomplish is amazing. They can create an engaging and transparent working environment, achieve business goals, and develop programs and structures that add long-term value. But when these relationships are less than optimal, the organization and employees suffer.

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Putting Out Fires: Engaging with Crises Is Critical for HR Development

HR needs to run toward crises and problems. We can help solve big and small crises. When we solve these crises, we add value to the organization, build trust with leaders, and help employees. Do you see the HR symbol in the sky? Yes, the leaders need us!

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Talent Talk

Keri Ohlrich, the CEO and Co-Founder of the Abbracci Group, talks about the need to challenge a company’s status quo by equipping HR to break the model of being a personnel driven body and move them in to being a strategic force that can help push a company forward.

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