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The Gift of Recognition: Creative Ways to Appreciate Your Team Over the Holidays
The holiday period is always a golden opportunity to shine a spotlight on the efforts of your people, helping to build a culture of appreciation that lasts well beyond December. Research increasingly shows that recognition is not just a nice gesture, but a real driver of better business. For example, a recent survey found that 77.9% of […]
Seasonal Hiring and Onboarding: How to Make Temporary Teams Feel Permanent
It’s not news to hear that the holiday season often brings a surge in temporary staffing needs. Whether it’s retail floor help, customer‑service agents, logistics crew or other seasonal roles, the festive months require those extra hands. And whilst the title of ‘temp’ looms as a reminder that these new hires are fractional, employers who […]
Virtual Holiday Spirit: Engaging Remote Teams for the Festive Season
In our increasingly distributed workforce, creating a meaningful holiday experience for remote or hybrid employees has its own unique challenges…which opens up a pool of opportunities for employers. With about 22 % of the US workforce working remotely in 2025 (around 32.6 million people) and 83 % of workers globally saying a hybrid arrangement is their ideal way […]
Building HR Credibility: Why This Moment Matters More Than Ever
By David Fairhurst, Founder & CEO, OrgShakers For many years, HR professionals have spoken about earning a strategic seat at the executive table. Yet today, that ambition has taken on new urgency. Organizations are grappling with rapid technological advances, evolving workforce expectations, and an increasingly unpredictable operating environment. These pressures demand leadership that can unite […]
HR and AI: ‘Couples Counsellors’ for humans and technology?
There has been a lot of scaremongering in the media about the effects that AI integration will have on the workplace – the most notable statistic being that, according to a report from Goldman Sachs, 300-million jobs are predicted to be lost in American and European markets,. However, delving deeper into the report reveals that just […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Clare Parkes
I am delighted to be welcoming Clare Parkes to the OrgShakers team! Clare is a results driven CHRO, with 30 years’ experience in global, consumer, entrepreneurial, B2B, and matrix organizations primarily in FMCG, Retail and Technology industries. A strategist and change agent, she thrives on creating commercial value through people, delivering results and leading transformational […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Patsy Doerr
I am delighted to be welcoming Patsy Doerr to the OrgShakers team! Patsy is an award-winning thought leader, speaker, coach and facilitator. In recent years, she received the Tri-State Diversity Council’s Most Powerful & Influential Woman Award. With a focus on Social and Community Impact, she has expertise in talent development, diversity, equity & inclusion, […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Christian Fernandez
I am delighted to be welcoming Christian Fernandez to the OrgShakers team! Christian is a Future of Work, Talent Transformation and Work Optimization Leader with 15 years of strategy development and execution in Agile Business Transformation, Organization Design & Effectiveness, and Process Re-engineering. A unique combination of Industrial Engineering and Organizational Development experience has allowed […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Karen Cerrato
I am delighted to be welcoming Karen Cerrato to the OrgShakers team! Karen is a seasoned HR professional with vast experience in Human Resources and a passion for high growth and fast paced environments. Most recently, Karen served as the Director of Human Resources for Lennox National Account Services, a division of Lennox International Inc., […]
Building Change Fatigue Strategies Into Your Success Equation
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” He may have achieved fame as a country music singer in the 1960’s, but Jimmy Dean’s observation could easily have been about the current state of organizational change. The winds of change have been howling through […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Arnold L. Greene
I am delighted to be welcoming Arnold L. Greene to the OrgShakers team! Since graduating from Cornell University with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations, Arnold has enjoyed over 30 years as a Human Resources professional leading Human Resources and Training functions. Arnold’s last corporate role was as the Head of Global Strategic Human […]
Fundamental Shifts in HR: Part 4, The End of Jobs
After discussing the world of HR consulting with Sarah Hamilton-Gill on her podcast, Leap Into HR Consulting, we moved onto looking at the four fundamental shifts that I predict we will be seeing in the near future that HR professionals need to be preparing themselves for. We discussed the looming edge of the Workforce Cliff, […]