Peter Winick
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Turning failure into a learning opportunity for growth. An interview with Don Schmincke about becoming blinded by the tools we use and making the best of entrepreneurial losses. What happens when the tools we use to analyze and take control of our environments become the cause of our destruction? Is your company using the tools they have at their disposal?
Suzi McAlpine
OCTOBER 30, 2023
If there’s one thing that’ll get most managers in a pickle, it’s dealing with conflict in their team. That tug of war. The slight that’s festering. The miscommunication that’s led to simmering, surly and sulky. The bun fight that’s bigger than Ben Hur… Most of us (me included) would rather sidestep the whole messy thing… The post 3 lessons for leaders to navigate conflict first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding. Third, adopt a growth mindset to help others strive for improvement instead of getting stuck on autopilot.
Lolly Daskal
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Leadership is all about making decisions, but sometimes the best leaders can fall victim to indecision. Indecisiveness is a weakness that can sneak up on the most respected leaders, and it can have a detrimental effect on the organization. Here are a few reasons why this one trait of leadership should be eliminated, it causes the following: Disengaged employees: Indecisiveness can disengage employees by creating a sense of uncertainty and lack of direction within the organization.
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
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. In response, the company proposed implementing a “KPI butterfly” to balance doing well (making money) against doing good (protecting society) as part of its digital transformation process.
Thought Leaders LLC
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Brilliant jerks are great to have around because they’re brilliant but they’re equally painful to have because they’re jerks. As a leader, the way you treat these brilliant jerks tells your organization a lot about what you value… and what you don’t. Today’s post is by Chris Laping, author of People Before Things: Change Isn’t an End-User Problem ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).
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Michael McKinney
OCTOBER 30, 2023
C OMMUNICATION is a two-way process. It is imperative that we understand how to transmit and receive in order to have the appropriate communication that builds stronger relationships. The Evolution of Communication From the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt to the tweets of today, communication has always been humanity’s compass. By the firesides of our ancestors, stories shaped cultures and defined communities.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Although financial analysts widely acknowledge that innovation is a key driver of business growth and business sustainability, the financial markets do not reward innovation investments, largely because companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors and analysts. There are legitimate reasons for being careful with information but the authors argue that companies could benefit from sharing progress with their project pipelines and communicating their decision-making progres
Nir Eyal
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Think you’ll explode if you try one more ineffective productivity hack? Here’s what you need to know to actually hack back distraction: there are only three causes of any distraction: an internal trigger, an external trigger, or a planning problem. A distraction tracker is the only way to help you figure out which of those is causing you to get distracted so you can do something about it.
AIHR
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Human resources professionals have many important tasks in the office, but one of the most crucial is managing the organization’s talent lifecycle. It’s not just about attracting top talent but also retaining them. 47% of Gen-Z and 66% of Millennial workers have said they would leave a job if offered a better salary. This clearly illustrates that companies have to do what they can to support their employees through every step of the talent lifecycle to ensure a positive relationship that’s benef
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.
15Five
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Employee turnover is an increasingly significant challenge across nearly every industry, and the decline started well before the Great Resignation. Over the last decade, people have been changing jobs more frequently and staying with their employers for shorter spans. A recent labor statistics study by LendingTree found that between 2012 and 2022, the median job tenure dropped almost 11%, from 4.6 years to 4.1 years.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Words have trajectory. Here are three conditional statements that stand between you and the life you hope to enjoy.
Michael Hyatt
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Despite mantras to the contrary, attempting to travel through life “fearlessly” is rarely wise. Fear is a fine-tuned survival mechanism. It helps keep us safe on the edge of a cliff or walking down a dark road. It prompts us to proceed carefully in conversations marked by power imbalance or when we have a lot […] The post Choose Courage: 3 Fears to Confront this Halloween appeared first on Full Focus.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
A leader who feels something is missing in his career must learn how to define his purpose.
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.
Rhythm Systems Growth
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In a rapidly changing business landscape, CEOs of mid-market companies are facing numerous challenges, as highlighted by the winter 2023 Fortune/Deloitte CEO survey. These challenges include balancing growth objectives with economic realities, addressing tactical issues, navigating inflationary pressures, and striking a balance between short-term investor demands and long-term value.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
How to take charge of this life-long condition.
Help Scout Leadership
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Customer service folks are the ones most likely to interact with customers directly and have a large impact on how customers perceive your brand. One way you can celebrate and recognize their hard work is by participating in customer service week.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 30, 2023
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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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