Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Coaching is harder when the coach is the boss. Open listening, courageous honesty, and not fixing are rare in conversations when one person has organizational authority. Frameworks provide clarity, consistency, and confidence in coaching relationships. Use four questions that align with the GROW model.
Refresh
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The term “job hopper” typically carries a negative connotation, suggesting disloyalty and instability. However, frequent career changes are… The post The Realities of Job Hopping: Is It Right for You? first appeared on The Express Blog.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Make it a partner in strategic thinking, leadership development, and decision-making.
Lolly Daskal
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The greatest threat to your organization’s success isn’t your competitionit’s your leadership style driving top talent out the door. In my work coaching senior executives, I’ve documented a concerning pattern: leaders often remain blind to the behaviors that prompt their most valuable employees to quietly plan their exits. As I challenge C-suite executives through talent retention transformations, one truth remains constant: leadership behavior, not compensation, determin
Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC
Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
How to balance consistency, fairness, and context.
Alison Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My company announced a biggest loser weight loss challenge today and immediately my stomach sank. This was sent by the owner/founder of my small civil engineering company (about 40 employees). This is still so fresh for me I dont even really have the words to express how many ways this is a horrible idea and would love your thoughts.
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Alison Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: About four months ago I hired a new employee, Arnold. He interviewed very well, and the other interviewers on the panel agreed he was the best candidate. However now I am starting to see some serious gaps in ability. The biggest issue is that Arnold totally forgets entire conversations weve had.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A conversation with Harvard Kennedy School experts Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi on increasing diversity with systems, not programs.
Brett Koehler
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
In the ever-evolving landscape of career development, a new tool is set to transform how leaders engage with their teams. Berrett-Koehler Publishers (BK), known for its mission-driven approach, is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of the third edition of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go by Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni. This edition not only updates the career development classic but also introduces an innovative AI-powered tool designed to enhance career conversations.
Alison Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Its five answers to five questions. Here we go 1. Is hey rude? I have a former boss who asked all staff at a tiny nonprofit not to use the greeting hey to her. I think this is imperious and out of touch, at best. What do you think? Its a bit much, but theres a fairly outdated belief that hey is rude remember those teachers and other elders from your youth who would respond to “hey” with “hay is for horses?
Speaker: Jeremy York
Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
When designing an organization, one common issue that arises is matrix reporting. When implemented effectively, matrix reporting serves as a powerful linkage, connecting work done in multiple parts of the organization. This linkage is essential for addressing issues that traditional structural hierarchies may not be able to solve. We frequently work with clients to evaluate the trade-offs of solid versus dotted line reporting.
Alison Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My office is next to a person who swears a lot during the work day. I assume its frustration with his computer, but a least a couple times an hour Ill hear an onslaught of expletives coming from his desk. Its pretty disconcerting to hear and its also really distracting.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Enabling Sustainable Transformation Challenge: Without robust implementation, a powerful organization redesign can lose its impact. While redesigning its retail channel to combat competition from large home improvement retailers, Benjamin Moores IT leadership needed to improve how resources supported strategic direction. Initial redesign results were positive, but IT leadership recognized the need to improve how their resources and assets supported the companys strategic direction.
Chris LoCutro
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Controlling behavior in the workplace is a silent culture killer. It seeps into meetings, projects, and conversations, causing frustration, lowering morale, and even driving great people away. The problem? Leaders often dont recognize it until its too late. In this episode of The Chris LoCurto Show, were unpacking how controlling and manipulative behavior shows up in your business, why its so destructive, andmost importantlyhow to address it effectively as a leader.
Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton
Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Developing Greater Autonomy & Capability Challenge: Capacity is an increased internal ability to respond to organization design needs. With a small corporate group of organization effectiveness specialists supporting nearly 70,000 employees over 150 countries, Abbott Laboratories needed to build capabilities within local HR leaders. They also wanted to develop a toolkit to confidently offer to HR and line leaders.
AIHR
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Weve put together this set of essential HR templatesto help you work smarter, make an impact, and feel confident in your role. These templates give you a strong foundation to tackle your HR responsibilities with clarity and ease. No matter where you are in your HR journey, these resources will help you stay organized, drive results, and, most importantly, love the work you do.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Strategically Strengthened Market Position Challenge: Being the dominant player in a market can bring its own vulnerability. Canadian indirect lending market leader, Scotiabank needed to ensure and strengthen their market position. Not wanting to rest on their laurels and allow competitors to take away their customers, they sought to align strategy to their customers changing needs.
AIHR
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Effective employee communication is crucial to an organizations success. Clear, transparent, and consistent communication leads to a productive, collaborative work environment and aligns teams with business goals. In fact, it can increase productivity by 72% among business leaders and work satisfaction by 56% among knowledge workers. HR plays a key role in shaping and maintaining good employee communication by developing policies, implementing communication tools, and fostering a culture of open
Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo
From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Building & Maintaining Alignment Leader Competencies: Challenge: Tyco was transforming from a disconnected IT function spread out among multiple business units to a centralized, aligned IT function. With limited coordination in the past, corporate leaders had developed different priorities and approaches. Though there were many capable leaders, there was little experience with successful change leadership.
AlignOrg
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Increased Sales Growth and Increased Efficiency Challenge: The design of a large organization can limit its potential for growth. GE Energy Services wanted to increase its sales by 10% while improving efficiency by 10% for their seven business lines and global sales force of more than 1200 people. Solution: To gain insight into the current sales process, AlignOrg Solutions led an extensive data-gathering into how customers purchased and how they preferred to interact with GE sales people; the ke
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