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A 10-Minute Revolution: 7 Things You Can Accomplish in 10-minutes

Leadership Freak

Infatuation with dramatic change is the reason you’re stuck. Transformation happens in 10-minute increments. Momentum is a series of small successes. Dedicate 10-minutes to one thing on this list. It will improve your day. Keep doing it, it will change your life.

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7 Employee Engagement Models To Help Improve Engagement (In 2024)

AIHR

You may not have given employee engagement models much thought, but the statistics suggest you should. Gallup estimates that low employee engagement leads to staggering annual losses of $8.9 trillion – nearly 10% of the world’s GDP. Additionally, 62% of employees report feeling disengaged, and 15% actively disengaged. The former typically put in minimal effort at work, and the latter often demotivate their colleagues with their disillusionment and pessimism.

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Sustainable Leadership: Incorporating Recognition into Long-term Business Strategies

Vantage Circle

Many organizations become locked in a self-created paradox while pursuing sustainable leadership. While striving for long-term sustainability, they unintentionally damage their efforts through traditional recognition processes. This disparity between sustainability objectives and employee recognition is more than a small oversight; it is a significant problem at the core of many business plans.

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Do You Have a Toxic Employee Working For You? 6 Signs to Look Out For

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve worked with numerous leaders who have struggled with the detrimental effects of toxic employees within their organizations. Toxic employees can have a significant negative impact on team morale, productivity, and overall company culture. It’s essential for leaders to identify these individuals early on and take appropriate action to mitigate their influence.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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my employee texts me late at night

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: One of my employees texts me at 10:45 pm. I’m wondering how I can firmly but fairly lay down boundaries and let her know it’s not okay or respectful of my free time to message so late. 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 updating/expanding my answers to them).

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Report: Leaders Struggle to Use Appropriate Management Styles

Association Now Leadership

A survey from the American Management Association found that leaders and their reports diverge on how best to lead, and whether managers can shift when needed. According to a new survey, leaders aren’t in sync with their employees about how their leadership styles are perceived, and leaders also struggle to “flex” across different management styles.

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Cultivating Unconditional Love For Yourself And Others

BetterUp

Jump to section What is unconditional love? Understanding what unconditional love feels like Is unconditional love achievable? Cultivating unconditional love toward others Finding unconditional love for yourself When should love be unconditional?

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How to Navigate the Choppy Waters of Crisis Management

Thought Leaders LLC

When you face a true crisis, how do you react? Do you stress out? Do you look for someone to blame? Perhaps instead you can approach the crisis like a Hollywood director. Today’s post is by Tom Reilly, author of The Hollywood MBA I have spent three decades running movie sets which has always required me to anticipate and stave off problems on a daily, if not hourly, and even minute-by-minute basis.

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How to Become A Master At Overcoming Hard Moments

Stephen Warrilow

"The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it." This quote from Roger Federer has got a lot of coverage in social media and deservedly so. I am not very interested in tennis, but I have always taken great pleasure in watching him play in major tournaments.

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585 | How to Lead Someone With a Victim Mentality

Chris LoCutro

Today, we’re diving into a challenging yet crucial topic: leading someone with a victim mentality. Let’s jump right in! Victim mentality is that mindset where someone feels something is always happening to them, and they can’t do anything about it. Have you seen it? Someone on your team who constantly blames others for their circumstances, never taking responsibility for their actions.

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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How Biases About Motherhood Impact All Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Women’s experiences as parents in the workplace are completely different from men’s. Men get a “fatherhood wage premium,” while mothers encounter a “motherhood penalty” in wages and advancement opportunities. One might think that women without children have workplace advantages on a par with their male counterparts. But they don’t. The maternal wall hinders all women’s careers, whether they plan to have children or not.

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is my girlfriend’s boss crossing a line, commenting on food expenses from a business trip, 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 my girlfriend’s boss crossing a line? My girlfriend is a manager at a psychiatric office, but I feel that her male boss crosses the line in conversations — for example, giving her his opinion on periods and how she shouldn’t have one and telling her she should get a IUD and so on.

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Is It Time to Pivot Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Three questions to help you decide when and how to correct the course.

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Mortification Week: the lettuce hater, the stolen lunch, and other stories to cringe over

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 14 mortifying stories to kick off today. 1. The sweater I flashed my coworkers during a video call. All men. I was wearing a thick, flowy sort of sweater and sitting next to the fireplace with my work laptop facing me on an ottoman.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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An Astronaut’s Advice on High-Stakes Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Cady Coleman on teamwork under pressure.

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Mortification Week: the mustache party, the hat police, and other stories to cringe over

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 13 more mortifying stories to enjoy. 1. The mustache party My partner and I were in our 20s and we had just moved across the country for my grad school program.

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