Peter Winick

JULY 8, 2024

Transforming Lives and Communities with Cure Violence Global A conversation with Cobe Williams about his transformative journey and helping to stop violence in his neighborhood and across the globe. Bill Sherman hosts Cobe Williams, a pioneer in violence prevention. Cobe shares his journey from personal redemption to global impact. As Director of US Programs for Cure Violence Global, he uses epidemic control methods to halt violence in communities.

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Scaling Government Media Education 181

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2024

Some observers are beginning to question whether gen AI will produce enough value to exceed its costs. It can, but extracting economic value from gen AI requires several different types of disciplined capabilities. Unfortunately, most companies lack these. The good news is they can develop them. Specifically, companies should invest in behavioral change, controlled experimentation, measurement of business value, data management, human capital development, and systems thinking.

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Manager 143

Lolly Daskal

JULY 8, 2024

The feedback sandwich, a popular technique and it is commonly used method for delivering constructive criticism. It involves starting with a positive comment (compliment), followed by the critical feedback (criticism), and concluding with another positive comment (compliment). This technique is intended to soften the impact of criticism by framing it with praise, with the goal of making the recipient more receptive to the feedback.

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AIHR

JULY 8, 2024

Salary benchmarking is a powerful tool for building a stable, motivated workforce and decreasing turnover costs. It helps optimize your compensation planning and satisfy employees by accounting for factors like inflation and industry standards. Fair compensation is necessary as it is a fundamental driver of employee morale and job satisfaction. Consider that 44% of organizations lose employees because they don’t provide competitive salaries, while employees who believe they are paid fairly are 3

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Benchmarking Compensation Marketing Compliance 111

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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Brett Koehler

JULY 8, 2024

Business and personal growth authors often make this (very logical) error of writing their whole book first (or a sizable chunk of it), and then approaching a publisher. Don’t.

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Michael McKinney

JULY 8, 2024

A SECRET to lifelong success is to always be in learning mode, personally and organizationally. In Cultures of Growth , Mary Murphy contrasts a Culture of Growth with its growth mindset and the fixed mindset of a Culture of Genius. These mindsets exist on a continuum. We don’t just have one or the other. We are not static. We frequently shift from one to the other depending on what we are experiencing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2024

The most successful executive teams can achieve outsized outcomes, but they can also be challenging to manage and be a part of. The author, a psychologist who has worked with executive teams for over 20 years, explains what sets the best teams apart — their members’ raw capacity, the scale of their aspiration and achievement, and their constant generative tension — and unpacks how to manage the latter so that teams are productive, not destructive.

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Scaling Manager 103

Alison Green

JULY 8, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in a small office (less than 15 of us). There’s pretty low turnover so most of us have been around for at least a year, most of us more. I have one coworker, Paige, who is great at her job and really personable around everyone … except me. She was hired almost a year before I was.

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Manager 99

Thought Leaders LLC

JULY 8, 2024

R. Barbara Gitenstein offers leaders ten pieces of advice for improving their organizational communication. Today’s guest post is b y R. Barbara Gitenstein, author of Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic. The famous line from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke seems to resonate with special urgency today. Today’s failure to communicate is most apparent in the public arena, but there are similar problems in the workplace.

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Alison Green

JULY 8, 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. I reported a manager, who’s now trashing me whenever my name comes up I need a gut check here. This has been really bothering me but I’m not sure it’s really a big deal or if I just need to be more resilient. I previously worked on Manager A’s team.

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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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Kellogg Insight

JULY 8, 2024

In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,”.

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Insurance 90

Eric Jacobson

JULY 8, 2024

Mastering AI by Jeremy Kahn is absolutely a must-read for every business leader who wants to better understand the history and evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence), and more important, the promise and perils of AI for businesses and society. Even if you think you have a basic understanding of AI, this book is an essential resource for you. That is because Kahn delivers not only a timely, thorough and thought-provoking examination of AI’s benefits to humanity as well as its potentially chill

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Help Scout Leadership

JULY 8, 2024

Ever wonder how different support teams manage their queues and structure their inboxes? Learn about Help Scout's approach in this edition of the Support Team Mailbag.

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Manager Team Management 45

LSA Global

JULY 8, 2024

7 Steps to Define Success Profiles for Key Jobs A success profile is a comprehensive outline of the skills, behaviors, and attributes that are essential for individual and organizational success for a specific role. Knowing how to define success profiles for key jobs enables companies to provide a clear roadmap for behavioral interviewing , customized training programs , performance management , and succession planning across teams, functions, organizations, and portfolios.

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Revenue Metrics Succession Planning Performance Management 45

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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Alison Green

JULY 8, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a company that has ~40 people and we gather annually in person. We are otherwise a hybrid organization. We are very open about mental health struggles and work/life balance, and that comes from our leadership. I’m incredibly grateful to work in an organization like this.

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Manager 76