Wed.Jun 05, 2024

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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).

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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How to Future-Proof Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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

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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 ?

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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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.