The latest thinking on how to develop, engage and retain your talent

We're two weeks away from Convergence, our all-virtual global conference that will bring together the brightest minds in HR, learning, and development. We may not be in the same conference venue this year, but we'll be together nonetheless! Here are five ways to make the most out of Convergence 2020.

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There's an excited buzz spreading across Cornerstone virtual team meetings and chats because our annual customer conference - Cornerstone Convergence - is less than a month away. On September 16-17, join the all-new, all-virtual, all-free Cornerstone Convergence as we bring together the brightest minds in HR, learning, and development to explore fresh perspectives for our new world of work.

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A thoughtful content strategy is crucial for learning. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has made this reality even more clear for organizations. Quality content is needed to ensure that employees continue to learn and develop professionally when in-person training is simply not an option.

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Across industries, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken business operations significantly, creating the need for many organizations to switch to remote work almost instantly. This sudden transition required new forms of communication and collaboration. While this abrupt shift to remote work presented obstacles, many organizations were proactive in providing their people and teams the learning resources required to navigate this new remote work reality.

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Gen Z's steady entry into the workforce has come with a wave of preparatory think pieces, advice columns and data breakdowns-rivaling even Millennial content. But there's an important reason: as the first "digital natives," Gen Z brings transformational changes, industry-wide rethinking and reshaping the world of work-again.

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Decades from now, movies will be made, and features will be written about the year you're currently living in. Those features will focus on the events, the problems, the pandemic, the mistakes, and yes – the heroes. 2020 is the year of the HR Generalist.

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Over the past several months, we've been confronted with new challenges. Overcoming these challenges required thinking and acting differently from the norm – and it had to happen at lightning speed. One helpful tool for navigating the path forward is hacking. When you dig a little deeper into the world of hacking, you discover a simple process from driving incremental improvement and innovation.

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We can all agree that COVID-19 will have a lasting impact on the workplace. It's already forced employers to adopt a new mentality around remote work. It's encouraged us to ask new questions about office layouts, the way teams collaborate, and the speed of how quickly we have adapted to change. One day soon we'll begin to explore a full "return to work" and what it means moving forward.

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Change is defined as "make or become different". It's a word that we've heard a lot over the last three months, oftentimes preempted with unprecedented. We're going through a collective exercise in change to our routines, human interaction, and where and how we work. And change, regardless of scale and scope, contributes to stress.

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