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Conflict Resilience: Turn Argument to Advantage

Leadership Freak

Dont worry if theres conflict. Worry if there isnt. Disagreements are inevitable. Avoidance is the enemy. Conflict resilience helps you thrive during the inevitable. How can you turn discomfort into discovery? More.

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Navigating M&A Integration in the Evolving Utilities Sector

Kotter Inc.

As of 2024, the value of announced deals in the industry exceeded $150 billion, nearly double the value through the same period in 2023. M&A is expected to further accelerate in Q1 2025 after the Fed'.

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The Competition Starts Now—Elite Trades Championship Series Qualifiers Are Open

Refresh

Are you ready to put your trade skills and knowledge to the test? Qualifying rounds for the ServiceTitan… The post The Competition Starts NowElite Trades Championship Series Qualifiers Are Open first appeared on The Express Blog.

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4 Styles of Coaching—and When to Use Them

Harvard Business Review

A 2×2 matrix to help you identify how much guidance your employee needs.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

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.

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my employee says I have to give her longer breaks because she’s a smoker

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I own/manage a business, let’s say a retail heath care equipment supply company that is located in a larger health care campus. I have multiple employees, and for a six-hour shift they get two 15-minute breaks. It isn’t intense or overly physically exhausting work, but I realize it is nice to step away for a few minutes.

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How to Learn from a Failed Negotiation

Harvard Business Review

Turn a loss into future wins.

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3 Ways to Drive Continuous AI Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Lessons from Intuit on fostering a culture that embraces the technology.

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my coworker isn’t willing to tell a teenager helper that he’s accidentally killing all our fish

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in the five-person office of a large pre-school. My colleague, Amy, keeps a five-gallon fish tank near her desk with between two and four fish in it. The tank is in full view of the office door and the lobby beyond. The fish are important to the school; when our young students are overwhelmed and need to calm down, the office fish are often their first stop with their teachers, and “saying hi̶

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How Lanco Medical Group Fosters Workforce Happiness to Motivate Employees and Grow Fast

Harvard Business Review

A case study on balancing incentives and fairness amid international expansion.

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HR changed our performance reviews, do I have to announce my pregnancy at work, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Its five answers to five questions. Here we go 1. Should I say something about past allegations against a colleague? I started a new position about six months ago, working with partner organizations across the state on community projects. On a recent call, I was surprised to see someone Ill call Brad.

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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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Protect Your Company from Escalating Foreign Cyber Threats - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM THREATLOCKER

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from ThreatLocker.

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can I back out after accepting a job?

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: What do you owe a company when you accept a position? Is it ever okay to leave a good job only a few weeks after starting? I worked for a decade in an industry I loved, then burned out hard and left for a better-paying sector. For the past 18 months, I’ve been contracting part-time with a successful startup, doing work thats similar but less engaging (to me).

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When Sales Incentives Backfire

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with researchers Tim Gardner and Colin Wong on how salespeople game the system.

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How Writing a Book Builds Your Credibility as a Thought Leader

Thought Leaders LLC

Writing a book is the best thing a thought leader can do to raise their authority in their field. Here is a step-by-step guide to making your book a reality. Todays post is by Zach Obront, co-founder of Scribe Media. Melissa Gonzalez was frustrated. As an expert in the field of pop-up retail, she worked with companies like Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Google to create incredible short-term retail experiences.

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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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50 Smart Sales Team Survey Questions

Vantage Circle

Sales team surveys are frequently overlooked, despite the fact that they are essential for identifying the true factors influencing output, motivation, and cooperation. Sales teams are the foundation of any company that makes money, but how can you expect them to be successful if they don't feel heard, encouraged, or involved? We'll go into creating insightful sales team survey questions in this blog post that dig into the core factors that truly contribute to success.

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Boosting Training Outcomes Through Cognitive Learning Methodologies

AlignOrg

Ill start with a statement: Most people dont know how to learn. It might sound like an odd thing to say, but most people couldnt definitively explain how their brain best absorbs and retains knowledge. As adults in the workplace with competing priorities vying for our attention, it is critical to our careers that we understand the most expedient way to learn and upskill ourselves.

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How The Power Of AI Can Transform The Way You Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The authors of the new book, More Human , state there are three primary ways that AI (Artificial Intelligence) can transform how we think about leadership: It can save us time so we can focus on creating more-human experiences for employees. It can enable us to create ultra-personalized leadership. It can help us elevate our humanness toward becoming better leaders.

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9 Best Guide Creation Software & Tools [+How To Choose the Right One]

Sweet Process

Last Updated on March 18, 2025 by Owen McGab Enaohwo Start your free 14-day trial of SweetProcess No credit card needed. Cancel anytime. Click Here To Try it for Free. You just hired new team members. They are eager to start working, but theres no structured onboarding. Instead, they repeatedly ask the same questions because […] The post 9 Best Guide Creation Software & Tools [+How To Choose the Right One] appeared first on SweetProcess.

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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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What is Personalized Recognition: Importance, Types & Ideas

Vantage Circle

Have you ever been recognized in a way that truly spoke to who you are and what you’ve achieved, so much so that it stayed with you for weeks? That's the power of personalized recognition. If you ask me, a simple "thank you" email or a generic company-wide shoutout rarely leaves a lasting impression. And, that's because the emotional connect is missing.

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[Free] Ready-To-Use Leave Request Forms

AIHR

Our collection of simple and free leave request forms provides a solid foundation for developing customized employee leave request forms specific to your organization’s needs. Contents 1. Employee leave request form 2. Time off request form 3. Vacation request form 1. Employee leave request form An employee leave request is a general form for employees to request any type of leave, including vacation, sick leave, parental leave, personal leave, or other absences.

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9,000 Coaching Sessions (The Evolution of a Practice)

Ed Batista

Last Thursday, March 13th, I conducted the 9,000th coaching session of my career, and the milestone has prompted a look back at how my practice has evolved over the past two decades. I'm not suggesting that there's one right way to run a practice, or that anything I do should be emulated. But I've always tried to be thoughtful about what will work best for me and my clients, and perhaps these reflections will prove useful to colleagues as they experiment with their approach, or to clients who ar

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Everything You Need to Know About Safety Reward Programs for Employees

Vantage Circle

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Private industry employers reported 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2023 I’m sure this statistic on unsafe working conditions is alarming but unsurprising to many. Perhaps, I for one, can vouch for it, given how during my tenure in my previous company, I witnessed many employees exposed to such accidents or illnesses because the safety precautions were compromised.

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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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618 | The Silent Team Killer: How Unspoken Expectations Undermine Success

Chris LoCutro

If your team is struggling with execution, accountability, or a culture that feels, well, disconnected, then this episode is for you. Today, were breaking down one of the biggest silent killers in leadership: unspoken expectations. Why they wreak havoc on teams, and most importantly, how you can fix them. Thats what were diving into today. One of the most common frustrations I hear from business owners and leaders is, Why arent my people getting it?