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Why Data-Driven HR is More Important Now Than Ever Before
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that April 2019 marked the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years and that year-over-year average hourly earnings have risen at or above 3% for nine straight months. While that’s good news for the U.S. economy, as an HR...
Massive Changes to Healthcare Will Effect Your Business: What You Need to Know
The healthcare industry in the U.S. is uniquely ripe for transformation. It is a dynamic and growing market with rampant inefficiencies that attracts new technology-savvy players seeking opportunity. Case in point: Ecommerce giant Amazon recently entered into a joint...
As A CEO Your Job is to Get the Right People in the Right Seats: Here’s How to Do It
The key to a healthy, productive business is to build a team of the right people and to make sure that employees are in the roles that fit them the best. Companies commonly make the mistake of hiring employees for their technical skills and experience, rather than...
Emotional Intelligence: An Increasingly Vital Skill for the Modern CFO
Many CFOs have built their careers on technical skills and financial smarts, but performance today is no longer solely measured on those abilities. For the modern CFO, a new set of soft skills built around emotional intelligence have become increasingly important in...
How to Build a Powerful Business Case for Your HR Initiatives
Why is it important for you to learn how to craft a powerful business case for your HR initiatives? Well, like any other major business undertaking, HR initiatives require time and resources in order to be effective and result in real change. Unfortunately, the people...
For HR Leaders: How to Have More Productive Conversations with CFOs
HR leaders and CFOs often see their roles as diametrically opposed and even in conflict with each other. Finance professionals can be frustrated by a perceived lack of ROI and measurability in HR, while HR leaders sometimes see their finance counterparts as...
CFOs are Taking on More HR: What This Means for You
If you’re like many CFOs, your role includes overseeing many human resources functions beyond management of your finance and accounting team. Human capital, talent, workforce, personnel, human resources, or just HR – no matter which term your organizations uses it...
How CFOs and HR Leaders Can Effectively Collaborate For Success
Historically, the roles of CFO and CHRO have been considered entirely separate, perhaps even with competing priorities. However, companies are increasingly seeing these roles as being deeply connected and working towards a common goal. As a result, finance and HR...
How Great CEO’s Don’t Spend Their Time
The way that a CEO spends her time makes a huge difference in what gets done in a company. Few CEO’s get the chance to see into how other CEO’s are spending their time, they don’t have the chance to compare their decisions to those of others. So when I saw that...
How to Ask the Right Human Capital Questions as a CFO
In today’s highly competitive, global economy, skilled talent is often one of the distinguishing traits that separates leading companies from the rest of the pack. Organizations that excel at managing their talent enjoy important operational and performance...
Launchways Welcomes New Client Rocketmiles
Launchways, a leading provider of human resources, employee benefits, and business insurance solutions for growing businesses, today announced it has added Rocketmiles as a client. Rocketmiles has selected Launchways to review their plan performance and provide a...
Launchways Opens New Chicago Headquarters Amid Rapid Growth
Launchways, a leading provider of human resources, employee benefits, and business insurance solutions, today announced that it will be opening its new headquarters at 303 W Madison Street Suite 2000, Chicago, IL on April 8, 2019. The move comes amid a period of rapid...