Wed.Jun 05, 2024

article thumbnail

Onboarding New Employees in a Hybrid Workplace

Harvard Business Review

As you’re navigating hybrid work, it’s a good moment to assess how your onboarding processes enable or empower your new hires to thrive. Researchers at Microsoft have conducted and identified studies that suggest that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits.

article thumbnail

7 Leadership Traps That Could Put Your Career at Risk

Lolly Daskal

In the world of leadership, success hinges on the ability to navigate through a variety of challenges, both obvious and subtle. With my years of experience as an executive leadership coach, I’ve come to recognize patterns in leadership behavior that can signal danger for even the most promising careers. Let’s delve into seven traps that every leader should be wary of.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Importance of Setting Boundaries with Your Mentor

Harvard Business Review

In a mentorship, having clear boundaries — along with responses to share when those limits are transgressed — is important for safeguarding your mental health, your privacy, and your productivity. To establish them, have a conversation with your mentor, preferably at the start of the relationship. You can start by flipping the script and asking your mentor about their boundaries first: “Since this is all new, though, I wanted to ask: What boundaries do you want to have around our mentoring relat

132
132
article thumbnail

what’s the etiquette for reply-all email disasters?

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Can we get a definitive ruling on the etiquette when someone accidentally emails an incorrect email list in a large office? Today I went to lunch for 40 minutes and came back to 239 emails — someone emailed the wrong distribution list for a request (there were over 1,000 people on this list).

Manager 115
article thumbnail

How to Leverage AI in EX & HR Service Delivery

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

Learn how leading companies leverage AI to transform the employee experience, at scale. We'll debunk myths and showcase practical tools to help you confidently integrate AI into your EX strategy. Learn to personalize experiences, automate tasks, and streamline processes for a holistic approach. Leave energized and ready to champion AI as the key to a thriving workforce.

article thumbnail

Employer and Market Branding: Building Synergy

Chief Outsiders

Decades of marketing best practices dictate that effective external branding is essential for connecting with customers, enticing prospects, and creating lasting brand affinity. While corporate and product branding is critical to business marketing, few companies extend the same urgency to employer branding.

Marketing 114
article thumbnail

How Much Does HR Make? Your 2024 Salary Guide 

AIHR

“How much does HR make?” That’s the million-dollar question for anyone in human resources (or who may be keen on a career in HR). Luckily, you don’t need to guess what your boss or colleagues earn. This article provides an in-depth list of HR roles and their current salaries. With clear foresight and savvy planning, you can use this information to plan your HR career path and progression — much like this cohort of upwardly mobile workers did.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Accepting Your Team’s Failures

Thought Leaders LLC

The way you react to failure has a big impact on your team’s future performance and culture. Make sure you handle failures constructively. As much as we like to celebrate success, there are going to be failures. They’re not fun and they can derail a team if you don’t handle the failure well. When there is failure, the first thing to remember is to avoid blame.

109
109
article thumbnail

Research: Why We Choose the Hard Way to Do Tedious Tasks

Harvard Business Review

In life and at work, we often get stuck persisting in unpleasant activities even when more enjoyable and equally effective alternatives exist. Research shows this happens due to “entrenchment,” where repeating an activity blocks consideration of better options and makes you more likely to keep doing it. The author’s research focuses on enhancing well-being by limiting over-persistence in these tasks and suggests solutions that include reducing repetition, dividing attention, and alternating task

Manager 107
article thumbnail

HR misused my emergency contacts, requesting payment from a family friend, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My boss encouraged me to apply for a promotion, then said I didn’t have enough experience My boss encouraged me to apply for a promotion. It’s something that I feel like I could do but don’t have a ton of experience with, but my understanding was that it was something my boss thought I could do successfully.

article thumbnail

How to Write a Job Application Email (Examples & Templates)

BetterUp

Jump to section First things first: Collect your candidate information How to write a job application email in 6 steps 5 email templates for job applications Your email’s first impression

97
article thumbnail

Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.

article thumbnail

update: my retired predecessor wants to keep coming in

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer whose predecessor kept coming in even after retiring ? Here’s the update. Initially after I expressed concern, my plight was noted, yet the mollycoddling continued with a delicate balance and a certain sensitivity shown to my predecessor.

article thumbnail

From Burn out to Brilliance: Strategies to Reclaim Your Dreams

Leadership Freak

Neglected dreams don’t die they corrode the soul. The foolishness of serving others is forgetting how to dream for yourself. Servant leaders aren't martyrs. Everyone who dreams imagines who they might become. If you've forgotten how to dream for yourself, this post offers a beginning.

article thumbnail

update: I had a panic attack over a Halloween decoration at work

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day — there’s more to come today. Remember the letter-writer who had a panic attack over a Halloween decoration at work ?

article thumbnail

How to Future-Proof Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Understand which investments will allow your organization to thrive—even in a crisis.

article thumbnail

Unlock Hidden Talents: The SBO Blueprint For Success

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, understanding SBO is critical. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in upskilling. You'll leave with a comprehensive understanding of Skills-Based Organization (SBO), tailored insights into your organization's current capabilities, and a toolkit of effective strategies.

article thumbnail

Unlock the Best 15 Employee Perks in the US Companies

Vantage Circle

American workplaces have undergone a smooth evolution, incorporating the essential components of a modern workplace. At the center of this transition lies the willingness to go beyond traditional compensation packages and immerse employees in company culture. As such, employee perks in the US show an inclination to reflect the best of this culture. These perks allow companies to carve a distinct identity and support their employee engagement employee engagement initiatives by reinforcing company

article thumbnail

Deloitte’s Pixel: A Case Study on How to Innovate from Within

Harvard Business Review

If you’re an intrapreneur — or aspire to be one — this episode is for you.

article thumbnail

How Leaders Can Become “Friction Fixers” To Make Work Better

Tanveer Nasser

Why are some organizations able to effortlessly adapt and transform to meeting changing market conditions, while others seem to be held back by the very processes that are meant to help get things done? According to my very special guest, Bob Sutton, the key comes down to understanding the difference.

article thumbnail

Why Do So Many Businesses Fail? An In-Depth Look

Chris LoCutro

Why Do So Many Small Businesses Fail? An In-Depth Look Starting a small business is a dream for many, fueled by desires for independence, passion, and personal fulfillment. However, the stark reality is that many of these ventures don’t survive long-term. Understanding why small businesses fail can provide current and prospective entrepreneurs with crucial insights to avoid common pitfalls and pave the way for sustainable success. 1.

article thumbnail

Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

Speaker: Kjerstin Greene and Adri Glover

Feeling like you’re drowning in HR responsibilities? If you’re an HR professional with little or no additional support, or in a non-HR role juggling HR tasks with other responsibilities, you likely wear many hats – from recruitment and onboarding to benefits and employee engagement. This can be overwhelming, but Adri Glover and Kjerstin Greene are here to help!

article thumbnail

Why Do So Many Businesses Fail? An In-Depth Look

Chris LoCutro

Why Do So Many Small Businesses Fail? An In-Depth Look Starting a small business is a dream for many, fueled by desires for independence, passion, and personal fulfillment. However, the stark reality is that many of these ventures don’t survive long-term. Understanding why small businesses fail can provide current and prospective entrepreneurs with crucial insights to avoid common pitfalls and pave the way for sustainable success. 1.