Tue.Oct 24, 2023

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10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency. They argue that most big organizational problems deserve a more urgent response — a metabolic rate that honors the frustration, mediocrity, and pain of the status quo.

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7 Signs You Have Low Emotional Intelligence In Your Leadership

Lolly Daskal

Leading effectively requires emotional intelligence, which involves being able to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions as well as other people’s emotions. A leader with high emotional intelligence can build strong relationships, build positive working environments, and achieve results. However, leaders with low emotional intelligence may struggle in these areas.

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How Project Managers Can Say No — While Preserving Relationships

Harvard Business Review

Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. This often means saying “no” when stakeholders request additional features or changes. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.

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Eye-opening Self-Reflection Questions for Leaders

Leadership Freak

Growth requires self-reflection. Do you actually deliver the goods? Could you have blind spots? Are you the real deal? Self-reflection questions that keep you on track.

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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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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors. Traditional approaches, such as the stage-gate process, while effective at incremental improvements, don’t work as well when it comes to breakthrough innovations or attempts to change established behaviors.

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What Is Job Leveling? 9 Implementation Steps To Take in 2024

AIHR

Job leveling is an essential part of organizational design as it demarcates responsibility of work to be done at various levels. This has an impact on decision making, accountability and execution. For individual career development, it creates clarity around opportunities for advancement and the exact requirements at various levels, if defined well as part of organizational design.

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How to Take Control of Your Life: 7 Tips to Regain Happiness

BetterUp

Jump to section What “I've lost control of my life” really means How to take control of your life: 7 ways Say “I’m taking my life back” with confidence

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545 | Building Healthy, Happy, Hybrid Teams

Chris LoCutro

Hybrid Teams And How They Bring The Best Of Both Onsite/Remote Worlds! Are you ready to unlock the secrets of ‘Building Healthy, Happy, Hybrid Teams’? Our latest episode is all about guiding you to creating the perfect blend of remote and in-person teamwork that makes sense for your team! From the early days of skepticism to the current era of widespread remote and hybrid work, we’ve come a long way, haven’t we?

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How the United States Air Force Accelerated AI Adoption

Harvard Business Review

What does it take to innovate in a large, established organization?

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The Art of Value-Based Selling: Boosting Your Bottom Line

Chief Outsiders

Attention, bargain shoppers! In the realm of business-to-business (B2B) sales, blue lights, doorbusters, Black Friday sales, or penny pinchers don’t apply. That said, in our ever-evolving battleground, the age-old theory that "everyone buys a bargain" still holds.

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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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Getting Feedback Right on Diverse Teams

Harvard Business Review

INSEAD professor Erin Meyer explains how to offer advice across cultures, ages, and genders.

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Employee Engagement: A Quick Guide for Leaders

Niagara Institute

Did you know that 70% of the variance in the level of engagement from one employee to the next can be attributed to who their direct leader is? While many believe that employee engagement is relegated to the HR department, leaders play a significant role in how engaged their team members are.

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How to Stop Being a People-Pleaser and Regain Your Freedom

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s a people-pleaser? The negative effects of people-pleasing 12 signs that you’re a people-pleaser What causes people-pleasing?

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The 11 Best HIPAA-Compliant Software for Small Business

Help Scout Leadership

This guide to HIPAA-compliant software for small businesses will help you choose a software platform that not only meets regulatory standards but also serves your specialized business needs.

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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 Self-Preservation? 5 Skills For Achieving It

BetterUp

Jump to section What is self-preservation?

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