Fri.Jan 12, 2024

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Bringing True Strategic Foresight Back to Business

Harvard Business Review

Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. With modern updates and improvements to these combined disciplines, leaders can sharpen their vision for the future, empowering managers to make informed strategic choices and propelling teams towards superior performance.

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How to Announce Employee Departures To Your Team

Get Lighthouse

Employee departures are an inevitable part of any business. As your company grows and evolves, your needs change, and so do your employees. It’s natural that some of your people will move on to new opportunities or no longer be a good fit. Yet, if you've done a good job as a manager, departures should never be a total surprise. Through good rapport and open communication, you will know when a departure is coming, whether it’s your idea, their idea, or a little of both.

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The Best Leaders Can’t Be Replaced by AI

Harvard Business Review

There are some areas where AI is surpassing human capabilities — but there are several it can’t replace. Based on their research into employees’ comfort with AI in management, as well as their decades of research on the qualities of effective leadership, the authors identify the promise (and perils) of AI-enabled management, as well as the three uniquely human capabilities leaders need to focus on honing, especially as AI begins to figure more in management: 1) awareness, 2) compassion, and 3) w

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A Useful Tool for Decision-Making Teams

Leadership Freak

Teams that can’t make decisions are cars without wheels. Some teams advise. Other teams make decisions together. If you’re on a team that makes decisions together, this post is for you. This post includes a team decision-making tool you can download.

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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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How to Intervene When You Witness Workplace Aggression

Harvard Business Review

Given the many impacts of workplace aggression, organizations are exploring a number of prevention initiatives. One increasingly popular initiative, bystander intervention, involves training people who witness acts of aggression to intervene. Although bystanders can play a pivotal role in determining outcomes of workplace aggression, many individuals who speak out against perpetrators of aggression experience backlash.

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How To Connect With Your Team Members

Eric Jacobson

Here, from the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises. Schedule weekly one-on-one phone calls or meetings.

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What is a Coach vs. a Mentor? A Guide to Both and When to Search

BetterUp

What is the difference between a coach vs. a mentor? If you’re debating between coaching and mentoring, Here's your guide to both.

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Enhancing Self-Efficacy in the Workplace: A Key to Motivation and Performance (CHRO’s take)

Vantage Circle

“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” - Mahatma Gandhi That’s what self-efficacy does to any ordinary person (or animal), as we’ll learn in the following story. At the depths of a well, a determined frog found itself trapped. Wanting to escape sooner than later, it kept leaping day after day.

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4 Megatrends Shaping the Future of Work and HR

AIHR

In brief We see four megatrends emerging that will impact work. HR will have a critical role to play in creating productive, thriving workplaces: Megatrend 1 : The future labor market will be influenced by an aging population, rising youth unemployment, and global talent migration. Megatrend 2 : Global resource scarcity, including skills shortages and climate change, will affect organizational growth and productivity.

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I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life: How to Find Your Path

BetterUp

Jump to section Is it okay if you don’t know what to do with your life? I don't know what to do with my life: What next?

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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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9 Inspiring Employee Experience Examples To Boost Your EX

AIHR

Employee experience (EX) is a topic that is gaining a lot of traction, and with good reason. There is a lot of focus on hiring top talent, but it is equally important for a company to retain that talent. The employees’ lived experience is their EX. EX includes the perception of every touch point along the whole employee life cycle in the organization.

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How To Deliver Value For An Invisible Product With Keith Farley

SME Strategy

Keith Farley shares the best strategies and most relatable approaches to selling an intangible and invisible product.