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It’s Time to Do Away with “Dry Promotions”

Harvard Business Review

Instead of providing solid career opportunities, all too often companies resort to filling vacancies from outside. And when they do promote people, many employers give them “dry promotions” — more responsibility without more money. This article makes the case for revamping career development. Employers should provide more opportunities — both promotions that offer more pay and lateral moves.

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Do you let your clients turn your thought leadership into click bait?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: how often is it, as a thought leader, as an adviser, as a consultant, that in your work, in your relationship with a client, you’re engaging in these wonderful conversations and they really want to engage you at scale to serve them, to fix an issue that your work fixes?

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Research: People Still Want to Work. They Just Want Control Over Their Time.

Harvard Business Review

To better understand the role that control over one’s time plays in job and life satisfaction, the authors analyzed survey data from a nationally representative sample. They found: 1) People who had greater control over their time had the highest job satisfaction and overall satisfaction with their lives, 2) Those who felt a sense of time scarcity had less satisfaction with their jobs and were less satisfied with their lives, 3) The number of hours people worked was not related to how satisfied

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How To Keep Your Work Culture Strong and Healthy

Lolly Daskal

A strong and healthy work culture is not just an asset; it’s a necessity for any thriving organization. As an executive leadership coach, I guide leaders through the process of cultivating such environments. According to a study by Deloitte, 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct workplace culture is important to business success.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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The Surprising Guide to Lasting Impact

Leadership Freak

Personal struggle is an unexpected source of lasting impact. "Life is not about you. It is about what you do for others." - Tom Rath Discover 10 sources of competence and learn how reflecting on your struggles can lead to meaningful contribution. Transform personal challenges into opportunities for growth and leadership.

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When Cyberattacks Are Inevitable, Focus on Cyber Resilience

Harvard Business Review

Cybersecurity experts and the companies that employ need to let go of their prevention mindset and adopt one focused on resilience. A prevention mindset means doing all you can to keep the bad guys out. A resilience mindset adds a layer: while you do all you can to prevent an attack, you also work with the expectation that they still might break through your defenses and invest heavily preparing to respond and recover when the worst happens.

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How do you spend the majority of your weekends?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you spend the majority of your weekends? Relaxing with family/friends 34.64% Pursuing individual activities 25.91% Resting and catching your breath 18.98% Working and catching up 13.25% Some other activity 7.22% Most are relaxing on weekends. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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manager thanked my husband for letting me work with them, how much exaggeration is too much on LinkedIn, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. A manager thanked my husband for letting me work with them A department I work with organized a social dinner at a restaurant after work one evening. People brought their families and so I brought my husband. A manager I work with came by, so I introduced them to each other.

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Video Quick Take: Unisys’ Peter Altabef on Empowering Businesses Through AI and Quantum Computing - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM UNISYS

Harvard Business Review

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updates: the insecure coworker, an exciting cocktail, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. Training a fragile, insecure coworker has become Too Much I really appreciated the advice, both from you and the commenters (and the permission to drop the rope that part of me was undoubtedly after). I realized after my letter was published that I’d left out a lot of context about what management looks like where I work.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Decision-Making Traps for Teams to Avoid

LSA Global

Decision-Making Traps for Teams to Avoid Decision-making traps can be viewed as unexplored biases. While decision-making biases cannot be eliminated, effective leaders and high performing teams can anticipate and mitigate preconceptions if they know what to look and listen for. And the higher the stakes or your vested interest in the decision, the more likely these decision-making traps for teams to avoid will emerge.

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Snark, Not Sarcasm (On Leader Communication)

Ed Batista

An occasional theme in my work with leaders on communication is the verbal or written comment that was intended by the leader to be witty but instead falls flat, creates distance, or even leaves people feeling offended or hurt. One reason for this gap between intent and impact [1] is that the leader was perceived as going beyond what we might call snark and crossing a line into sarcasm.

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Leading Thoughts for July 18, 2024

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Tom Asacker on leading with people: “Those skilled at motivating people to cross a new bridge to change their beliefs and behavior, are not trying to cajole or manipulate them against their will. Rather, they seek to guide them to a new destination, a transformed way of feeling, thinking and acting that's aligned with their personal desires and values.

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let’s discuss napping at work

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. We saw a surprising number of stories about covert napping in last month’s thread about interns — which reminded me that we’ve had many stories about napping at work over the years, both covert and not-so-covert. There was the summer associate who put on pajamas and napped on of her desk. the intern who tied his hands to the undercarriage of a truck so it looked like he was working on it while he was actually napping … a

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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HR Value Proposition: Examples & 8 Steps To Develop It

AIHR

Organizations must effectively attract, develop, and retain top talent if they want to achieve their strategic goals. An HR value proposition serves as a critical tool in this task, providing a clear and compelling narrative about the unique value that the HR function brings to both employees and the organization. Let’s take a detailed look at how you can create your HR value proposition.

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Revolutionizing Corporate Training | Jason Lavender

Peter Winick

Leveraging Expertise and AI to Transform Corporate Training. A conversation with Jason Lavender about his journey into corporate training and how his company Electives is making training easier, engaging, and more accessible. In this episode of Thought Leadership Leverage, host Peter Winick sits down with Jason Lavender, the co-founder and CEO of Electives.