Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. He welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at the e-mail address at the end of this column.

From employee turnover to mental health, HR professionals face massive challenges—and massive opportunities to Cause the Effect in their workplaces and the world.

Last week at the SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2022 (SHRM22) in New Orleans, thousands of HR professionals received numerous nuggets of valuable advice. Here's an overview of several of them—one pearl per program.

• "Become an InfluenceHR: Six Principles Guaranteed to Increase Your Persuasiveness," presented by Brad Karsh.Get people to agree to one small thing first; it increases the likelihood they'll agree to a second, larger request. "Would it be OK if I research some options that allow us to achieve more of that (the positive)?" This tees you up to achieve your larger objective.
  
  
• "Feedback Fears? Facilitate a Feedforward Frenzy!" presented by Tina Schust Robinson. We can't change the past, but the future is limitless. Help your people unleash what is possible. "Feedforward" is a concept pioneered by New York Times bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith. Instead of telling employees what they did wrong, suggest future improvement.
  
  
• "What Does Your Organization Trade On: Building Stronger Female Diversity into Your Organization's Leadership Pipeline,"...

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