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How to Work for an Overly Critical Boss

Harvard Business Review

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.

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6 Core Coaching Skills for Leaders

Leadership Freak

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

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Don’t Post That Job Listing Before Taking These 5 Steps

Harvard Business Review

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.

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updates: our boss is being a jerk about bereavement leave for miscarriages, and more

Alison Green

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!

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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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A New Model for Continuous Transformation

Harvard Business Review

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.

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interview with a death doula — a person who helps support you at the end of your life

Alison Green

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.

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did my boss reject me just so she could hire a friend, my employee lives in her cubicle, 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. 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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Time Management Strategies: 5 Tools To Take Back Your Time

Lolly Daskal

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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should I say something about my assistant’s messy desk?

Alison Green

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

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Introducing 15Five’s Evolution as a Strategic Command Center for Performance Management

15Five

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.

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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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How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

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

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577 | Leading Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Proactivity

Chris LoCutro

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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Why You Need to Stress Test Your Strategies (and Tactics)

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with consultant Arjan Singh on designing corporate war games.

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577 | Leading Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Proactivity

Chris LoCutro

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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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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3 Ways DiSC Improves Strategy Execution

Rhythm Systems Growth

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.

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Report: Leaders Want More, Better In-Person Staff Meetings

Association Now Workplace

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.

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