Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks is the founder and CEO of the career development platform PILOT. Share your reactions to this column on LinkedIn or @benbrooksny. He writes the monthly Coach's Corner column for HRE.

What you need to know about sustaining your new HR tech

Wrapping up a tech rollout doesn't mean the project, or the work for HR, is over.

How to buy HR tech: Getting started with a strategy

This is the first of a three-part series on driving HR tech advancements.

Brooks: Did 2021 finally break HR?

Reflecting on a year filled with dramatic change, challenge and chaos that may reshape HR forever.

Are you developing employees to succeed in hybrid, remote work?

This remains a 'massive blindspot' for too many organizations, expert Ben Brooks writes.

Brooks: Why every part of HR needs to step up for LGBTQ employees

Every function of HR needs to step up if employers want to offer more than hollow virtue signals.

Brooks: How good are you at making ‘the ask?’

If HR leaders want to drive real change, they must develop one of the most important skills in life: advocating for oneself (and for one’s department!).

Brooks: Hire smart, fire fast

Nothing says more about an employer’s HR function and its impact than who joins and who leaves an organization.

Brooks: Finish 2020 by tying up loose ends, reducing ‘task debt’

The best way for HR leaders to start fresh next year is to first leave as much of this year as possible complete, checked off, and neatly tied up.