Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Can you be thankful a bird crapped on your keyboard? Sometimes gratitude takes a little creativity.

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Leadership Development 278

Help Scout Leadership

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Enhance your AI support with better data quality. Learn key practices to improve accuracy, prevent errors, and deliver a customer-first support experience with AI.

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Rhythm Systems Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Plan With Intention for a Successful Quarter Your team works hard—but without strategic direction, their efforts will lack impact, and your company will not move closer to its long-term vision.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Share your holiday angst or joy in this special Thanksgiving eve non-work open thread.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Extreme weather events pose significant challenges for gig couriers, impacting their performance, income and health. Research with one food delivery platform in China showed that heat waves drive up order volumes for couriers, but also cause more delays and higher health costs. These couriers could end up working hard in heat for an entire summer and only make around $6 in extra money.

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Operations Manager 23

Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hi, What are you grateful for? What are you taking for granted right now? As Thanksgiving and the end of the year approaches, it’s a great time to reflect. Understanding what you’re grateful for can be a great exercise, and mood enhancer; studies show writing down 3 things you’re grateful for daily can make you happier. And equally important, it can help to ask, “What am I taking for granted right now?

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Engineering Performance Review Energy Manager 52

Michael McKinney

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

W ORDS have power. And how we communicate those words determines their resonance. It is the frequency the speaker uses that connects with us or not. Understanding the frequency with which you are trying to communicate is crucial to reaching and connecting with others. Erwin McManus has provided the map to help us understand how we are heard by others and, importantly, how we can identify what frequencies resonate with those we are speaking to.

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Energy 256

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Research-backed tips to help you move forward after conflict with a colleague.

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Manager 22

Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Many people think great leaders are defined by skills, strategies, or charisma. While these qualities matter, they are not what sets the best leaders apart. The number one sign of a great leader is how your presence makes others feel. Leadership is about more than competence—it’s about the impact you leave in every interaction. When you radiate positivity, encouragement, and confidence, others feel empowered.

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Leadership Development Manager 242

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

How to lay the strategic foundations for long-term success early on to avoid flaming out.

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Scaling Marketing 22

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.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s more holiday stories! Tradition dictates that as we head into the holiday season, we must revisit holiday stories previously shared by readers. Here are some favorites. 1. The magic I once worked at a small nonprofit with a lot of team spirit — people truly seemed to love staff gatherings, staff outings, etc.

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Compliance Engineering Nonprofit Government 111

Association Now Leadership

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New CEOs are wise to have a lot of stakeholder conversations before making changes. But they’ll need to decide what to listen for, and when it’s time to act. Culturally, we admire change agents: People who disrupt the status quo, break things, reimagine what the future looks like. In associations, leaders are often encouraged to be the sworn enemy of phrases like “but we’ve always done it that way.

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Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Introduction Starting a new job should be an exciting experience, not a stressful one. The best employee onboarding software takes the hassle out of paperwork, streamlining the process for both new hires and HR teams to create a welcoming and efficient start. Research shows that effective onboarding processes can boost retention rates by 82% and improve productivity by over 70%, highlighting just how critical this phase is to long-term success.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in an industry and on a product where business is booming. We’re making headlines internationally and people are flocking to the product. With this attention has come a large amount of in-bound sales offers from other companies. Software, insights tools, celebrity talent agents, you name it.

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Performance Review Account Management Software Sales 91

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.

Diversity

Thought Leaders LLC

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

There are four major activities that will consume your leadership capital. Depending on your team, you’ll have a different mix of these activities. There are four major activities that will consume your leadership capital. They’re directing work, doing work, delivering work and developing people: Directing work Directing including planning where you translate your vision into individual goals and activities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Each year, around Thanksgiving time, I think about what I am thankful for. This year, I decided to once again take the time to make a list. A list of eight things I am thankful for. What's on your list this year? And, what's on your list this year that wasn't on your last year's list? Here is my list : Family and friends. Blogs, LinkedIn and other sources that help me to be a constant learner.

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Nonprofit Travel Manager 52

Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In business, it’s easy to get caught up in the here and now—closing deals, managing day-to-day operations, and putting out fires. But if you’re only focusing on the short term, you’re putting the future of your business at risk. Building a business that lasts requires intentional, long-term planning. It’s about setting the foundation today for the success and growth of tomorrow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

When most people prompt generative AI, they do so within the paradigm of how they think about what could or should come next. For example, when searching Google, users may ask a question, search for the best Thai restaurant “near me,” or insert specific criteria based on filtered output, such as “best downhill mountain bike for intermediate riders.” That approach is often carried into prompting.

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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.

Compliance

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A manufacturing setting is far from a typical office aesthetic environment. Most facilities operate twenty-four hours and beyond without a day off. Working conditions are unfavorable for employees, lacking a safe environment, excessive noise, stifling heat, and poorly lit spaces. All these contribute to a challenging workspace, further aggravated by long shifts and physically demanding work.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I asked last week about unusual office traditions you’ve seen or experienced, and here are 15 of my favorites you shared. 1. The PB&J party We once had a coworker who was a young, single guy right out of college and living on his own for the first time. He always forgot to buy groceries, so he would bring really random things for lunch every day (one day he brought a jar of spaghetti sauce.

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Compliance Manager Engineering Energy 105