Tue.Mar 26, 2024

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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business Review

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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3 Ways to Become a Leader People Love to Follow

Leadership Freak

94% of employees plan to stay at a company when they have a boss they love to follow. WSJ A bad boss makes life miserable. We've all had them. Let's think about become a leader people love to follow.

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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Boost Your Employee Experience Success with These 6 Proven Steps

Lolly Daskal

Employee experience is a critical factor in your organization’s success. A positive and engaging workplace can lead to higher productivity, increased employee retention, and ultimately, better business outcomes. To boost your employee experience success, we’ll explore six proven steps that can transform your workplace into a thriving environment.

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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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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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my coworkers are obsessed with talking about their kids … and I’m the only childless one here

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in a small public-facing office of a government agency. Due to some staffing changes in the past few months, my coworkers are now exclusively mothers of young children, with one exception who is the grandmother of young children. I am now the only man and only non-parent in the office.

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I sent a text about my problem employee to the wrong person

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I find myself in a pickle and am a nervous wreck. I have been a manager for two years and it has not been easy. The manager before me was stepping down and badmouthed me during a staff meeting she held with the employees prior to my arrival. It was hell when I arrived.

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7 Ways to Drive Website Traffic and Leads

Ascend

Let's say you have the best website in the world. Great! Now what? The truth is that a website by itself doesn't offer much value. If you aren't doing anything specific to try and get people there, no one is going to see it.

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I was promised a raise for doing a lot more work … and it didn’t come through

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m feeling bamboozled by how my compensation situation has shaken out. I am a non-exempt salaried employee and have been the entire time this all went down. I joined my current company almost two years ago at a salary that was slightly below market for my level of experience and competency.

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Why the Glass Cliff Persists

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with author Sophie Williams on bias that continues to holds women and other underrepresented groups back.

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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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company wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them, telling a former intern to honor time commitments, 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. Potential job wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them I had an initial phone interview today with one of current company’s vendors. This vendor provides the software that tracks all the manufacturing and inventory activities for the product we make.

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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

Harvard Business Review

How resilience and vulnerability have shaped the leadership of Raymond Jefferson (MBA 2000).

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How Executive Functioning Governs Daily Life Activities

BetterUp

Jump to section What is executive function? What is an executive functioning coach? Executive function and ADHD 5 signs you might need an executive functioning coach Executive functioning coaching for kids vs. adults How does executive functioning coaching work?

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[Infographic] Top 10 Leadership Skills for Managers

Niagara Institute

When you step into a people leadership role , one of your first thoughts is: what do I need to be a great manager? While you’ll need to tap into many different skills as a manager, we’ve highlighted (in no particular order) the top 10 skills you’ll want to develop today. In this article, you’ll find the top 10 skills in the infographic, descriptions of each, and a leadership skills for managers PDF to help you develop these critical skills.

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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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How to Deal With Passive-Aggressive People: 6 Tips

BetterUp

Jump to section What is passive-aggressive behavior? What are the characteristics of a passive-aggressive person?

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33 Self-esteem journal prompts for confidence & self-compassion

BetterUp

Jump to section 5 Benefits of Journaling What Is Self-Esteem? What Is a Self-Esteem Journal?