Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.

Manager 145

Manager 145

Leadership Freak

JUNE 4, 2024

Coaching is leading powerful conversations that enable others to flourish. Skilled leaders use coaching skills to bring potential into reality.

Leadership Development 125

Leadership Development 125

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

A critical but often overlooked part of the recruiting and hiring process happens before the job description is posted — or even created. Hiring managers should conduct a thorough assessment of their team’s current skills, aspirations, and culture to make sure they’re courting candidates with the skill sets and capabilities will truly add value to the team and organization — both now and in the future.

Recruitment 145

Recruitment Manager 145

Lolly Daskal

JUNE 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, effective time management is the key to success for both professionals and leaders alike. Time is a finite resource, and how we manage it can greatly impact our productivity and overall well-being. To help you regain control of your time and achieve more in your personal and professional life, we’ll explore five powerful time management tools in this blog post.

Manager 122

Manager Workflows Project Management Energy 122

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

Benefits

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

Hippo is poised to disrupt the insurance industry, but can it weather the effects of climate change?

Insurance 140

Insurance Manager 140

Alison Green

JUNE 4, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Have you ever heard of a Death Doula? I hadn’t, so when I had the opportunity to ask Death Doula Sharon Crowell about her work, I took it! Here’s our conversation. What does a Death Doula do? A Death Doula provides support to a dying person and his or her family/caregiver.

Travel 116

Travel Manager 116

Alison Green

JUNE 4, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Did my boss reject me just so she could hire a friend? Late last year, my manager “Sarah” was promoted to my grand-manager. Since her role was now available, my same-job colleague “Jake” and I had a frank conversation where we confirmed we were both going for the position and assured each other that we’d be good sports and happy for the other if one of us was promoted over th

Manager 105

Manager Operations Accounts Benefits 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

Traditionally, transformation efforts are organized as programs with a defined beginning and end. Rooted in a change model popularized by German American psychologist Kurt Lewin in the 1950s, this approach involves three stages: “unfreeze, change, and refreeze.” Although it is effective for discrete projects like implementing a new payroll system, this model falls short in today’s dynamic business environment.

Operations 127

Operations Implementation 127

Alison Green

JUNE 4, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. Our boss is being a jerk about bereavement leave for miscarriages We had our directors’ meeting and it actually went way better than I thought!

Manager 105

Manager 105

AlignOrg

JUNE 4, 2024

In the symphony of steering a company’s success, culture is no mere background score — it is the very architecture that can make or break the business’s crescendo. It’s not enough to hope for a vibrant, innovative, and efficient culture. Business leaders must strategically engineer it if they want their enterprise to sing with uniqueness and power.

Marketing 101

Marketing Engineering Employee Engagement Metrics 101

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.

Diversity

Alison Green

JUNE 4, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My administrative assistant’s desk is atrocious. It is covered in not just piles of paper, but trash, food items, and all sorts of miscellaneous junk. She is a good employee and appears to get her work done. How would you handle this? I answer this question — and three others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updati

Administration 105

Administration Manager 105

15Five

JUNE 4, 2024

Our newest enhancements include executive insights, strategic action planning, and AI-guided manager support, unlocking the power of existing people data to drive higher performance, engagement and retention. Only 2% of CHROs think conventional performance management practices are actually working. Ouch. The conventional approach has been stagnant for decades, but the last thing HR teams need right now are more needless tactics added to their already overburdened plates.

Performance Management 95

Performance Management Manager Retention Scaling 95

Chris LoCutro

JUNE 4, 2024

Hey there, small business leaders! Ready to transform your leadership approach from reactive firefighting to proactive success? Join us for an insightful episode of the Chris LoCurto Show where we dive deep into the importance of being proactive as a leader. Sneak Peeks: The Cost of Reactivity Discover why constantly putting out fires leads to stress, inefficiency, and missed opportunities.

Small Business 52

Small Business Revenue Administration Sales 52

Rhythm Systems Growth

JUNE 4, 2024

Strategic plans often turn into dust-collecting documents. To bridge the gap between planning and execution, leaders need to understand their team's natural communication styles and working preferences. A strong strategy is just the beginning; leveraging DiSC assessments can help you wield the knowledge of your high-performing team makeup to unlock a smoother, more effective strategy execution process.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Accounts 52

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.

Retention

Chris LoCutro

JUNE 4, 2024

Hey there, small business leaders! Ready to transform your leadership approach from reactive firefighting to proactive success? Join us for an insightful episode of the Chris LoCurto Show where we dive deep into the importance of being proactive as a leader. Sneak Peeks: The Cost of Reactivity Discover why constantly putting out fires leads to stress, inefficiency, and missed opportunities.

Small Business 52

Small Business Revenue Administration Sales 52

Association Now Workplace

JUNE 4, 2024

The report from Cvent finds that team leaders are committed to hybrid workforces, but looking at ways to increase engagement. A new report finds that organization leaders see increasing value in in-person staff meetings, even with a more distributed workforce. The 2024 U.S. Internal Meetings Impact Report , released last week , is based on a survey of business leaders conducted by the events technology firm Cvent in collaboration with the Harris Poll.

Metrics 64

Metrics Marketing Operations 64