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.
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.
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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.
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!
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
Learn how leading companies leverage AI to transform the employee experience, at scale. We'll debunk myths and showcase practical tools to help you confidently integrate AI into your EX strategy. Learn to personalize experiences, automate tasks, and streamline processes for a holistic approach. Leave energized and ready to champion AI as the key to a thriving workforce.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2024
Hippo is poised to disrupt the insurance industry, but can it weather the effects of climate change?
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover
The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2024
A conversation with consultant Arjan Singh on designing corporate war games.
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.
Speaker: Brian Richardson
With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, understanding SBO is critical. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in upskilling. You'll leave with a comprehensive understanding of Skills-Based Organization (SBO), tailored insights into your organization's current capabilities, and a toolkit of effective strategies.
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.
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.
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