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HR News: What’s Ahead in 2026? with DeDe Church
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In episode 237, Coffey and DeDe Church discuss recent news items about how shifting economic conditions, technology, and leadership gaps are reshaping the employment landscape.
They discuss the realities of a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market; dehumanizing hiring processes and AI-driven recruiting tools; challenges facing early-career workers and liberal arts graduates; emerging roles created by artificial intelligence; the growing importance of soft skills like problem solving and communication; workforce restructuring, layoffs, and job hugging; employee disengagement and the great detachment; why strong frontline workers often struggle as supervisors; the risks of promoting without leadership training; transparency, feedback, and promotion decisions; and how kindness, accountability, and continuous feedback drive engagement.
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Media mentioned in this podcast:
Private-Sector Hiring Turned Positive in December After November Losses
Private Hiring Sank in November, ADP Says
US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook: Fastest Growing Occupations
The 2026 Job Market Outlook: Where the Jobs Are
Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves
When Good Frontline Workers Make Bad Supervisors
Is Your Leadership Style Too Nice?
The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting
Use Situation-Behavior-Impact (SBI)™ to Understand Intent
About our Guest:
DeDe Church is an attorney, employee relations counselor, workplace and University investigator, and nationally recognized trainer with more than 30 years of experience