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September 12, 2025

Maximizing the opportunity from a severance

There are really two types of people who need help with financial transition planning. The happy majority of these cases can be classified as ‘windfall’ clients who have lottery winnings, stock option gains or inheritances. Those who are there because they’ve lost their job don’t feel quite as fortunate. People who have become unemployed are...

Mentor-Protégé Partnership

In September of each year many of you see the annual call for those interested in either being an HR Protégé or a Mentor. This month, the 2006-07 OHRPA Mentoring Program is wrapping up. Before we launch the 2007-08 program, and approach another set of eager Protégés and dedicated Mentors, we asked our teams about...

Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership

Nelson Mandela has always felt most at ease around children, and in some ways his greatest deprivation was that he spent 27 years without hearing a baby cry or holding a child’s hand. Last month, when I visited Mandela in Johannesburg — a frailer, foggier Mandela than the one I used to know — his...

Fully Engaging the Nexus Generation … or any other!

There has been much discussion and debate surrounding the challenges of engaging and retaining employees from the ‘nexus generation’; those individuals in their twenties entering the workplace. The nexus generation has been analyzed and dissected like no other by employers eager to attract and retain their attention. Employee engagement has been attracting more attention than...