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How Organizations Can Encourage Productive Allyship

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated. Organizations can help by educating potential allies on how their efforts are received and by creating a culture where open communication and support are encouraged.

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Decision by Committee? Ask for a Show of Hands

UVA Darden

Decision by Committee? Ask for a Show of Hands burtonc Wed, 03/13/2024 - 12:13 12 March 2024 Leadership & Management Operations & Technology Modern Global Leadership Business & Public Policy Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Aine Doris The benefits of diversity in decision-making are well-documented. Having different perspectives and expertise on complex issues produces better outcomes.

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Research Roundup: How the Pandemic Changed Management

Harvard Business Review

Researchers recently reviewed 69 articles focused on the management implications of the Covid-19 pandemic that were published between March 2020 and July 2023 in top journals in management and applied psychology. The review highlights the numerous ways in which employees, teams, leaders, organizations, and societies were impacted and offers lessons for managing through future pandemics or other events of mass disruption.

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Painful Experiences: 5 Ways to Gain Advantage

Leadership Freak

Painful experiences are unavoidable. You might be going through the fire right now. This post offers 5 ways to gain advantage from painful experiences. It's not easy, but you've done it before. You can do it again. What can you add to the list I offer?

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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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Lessons from Costco on Sustainable Growth

Harvard Business Review

Few companies succeed in growing at a sustainable rate over time. The reason is that leaders give in to the temptation to grow in ways that overlook the customer or they grow more quickly than their organizational capabilities allow. But the leaders of a handful of companies, including Costco and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, never forget that businesses are complex systems whose elements are interconnected.

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5 Considerations for Distributing Your Team’s Work

Thought Leaders LLC

Keep these five things in mind when you’re splitting up the work for your team. A key task as the leader of a high performing team is how you distribute work across the members of your team. It needs to be done fairly. Note, I didn’t say equally. Work allocation needs to be done fairly because you want perceptions of equality. You want people to work on things they’re good at but also that they’re excited by.

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How to Become More Persuasive at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’re a leader, you need to know how to influence people.

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is it patronizing to say I’m proud of my team, asking for help from a candidate we rejected, 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. Is it patronizing to say I’m proud of my team? I’m a manager of a small team of 10 and recently they had a very visible win for the larger company. At a department meeting, I said I was very proud to be their manager and that they all did an exceptional job.

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How to Fail Right

Harvard Business Review

Why and how you fail is more important than success.

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there’s nothing I can do about my nightmare workload … right?

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m in a rough spot at work. When I started nearly two years ago, this was a six-person company: two owners and four staff. One staff member, who split a workload with me, moved away a few months later. They posted his position immediately, but nobody from the first wave of applicants worked out, things got hectic, and by the time the dust settled I had been handling the full workload for so long that th

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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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Career Fields: Finding The Job For You

BetterUp

Jump to section Career and fulfillment: how does your job impact your well-being?

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updates: parking lot gate wars, the employer that wanted more notice, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. My company is issuing new work-from-home standards because we should have the hang of it by now (previous updates: 1 , 2 , 3 ) I have a happy update for you! I ended up needing to pause my job hunt as I ended up having surgery and being out on medical leave for 3 months, and when I got back, the long-time operations manager (who was the right-hand person to the COO) had left f

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Your All-in-One Guide to Vacation Request Forms [+ Free Template]

AIHR

Vacation request forms are the simplest way for employees to request leave under an organization’s vacation and leave policy. HR can design and implement vacation request forms that are fair, transparent, and support employees taking their vacation days — proven to increase productivity, employee engagement and the operational effectiveness of businesses.

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4 Important Forces That Are Revolutionizing How We Work

Lolly Daskal

The world of work is undergoing a profound transformation, a metamorphosis fueled by technological innovations and shifting societal norms. These forces are not mere trends but fundamental shifts that will redefine how we perceive and engage with work, both as individuals and as a society. Our journey through these important forces will make a big difference.

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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.