June, 2020

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7 Signs You Let Others Control You During Emotional Turmoil

Leadership Freak

You must know yourself to manage yourself. Self-aware leaders choose how they show up. Low self-awareness means you can’t manage yourself with authenticity. Emotional turmoil seduces you into self-forgetfulness.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning for HR Practitioners

AIHR

When you hear Artificial Intelligence (AI) the first thing that comes to mind are robots; in particular, the Steven Spielberg movie titled A.I. where a robot child is built that can love and behave just like a real human. This idea appears to be closer to a dream than reality. Truth is, AI is more ubiquitous than we might think. It ranges from self-driving cars, movie recommendations on Netflix, e-mail spam detection to voice-controlled assistants such as Apple’s SIRI.

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Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control

Kevin Eikenberry

In 1964 the first remote control for a TV was created. Sometime after that, the TV watching experience changed forever. The remote made it easier to watch and control the television. Quite possibly earlier this year you created a remote team. You may not have wanted one, but here you are. And while the remote […]. The post Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Raise Distraction Free Kids

Nir Eyal

The post How to Raise Distraction Free Kids appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Is Your Background Screening Policy Built For 2025? What HR Leaders Need To Know Now

Speaker: Liz Charron

From evolving legislation to shifting workforce expectations, background screening is undergoing major transformation, and HR is in the driver’s seat. With new compliance requirements and growing scrutiny, today’s HR leaders must build programs that are not only audit-ready but outcome-driven. HR Management and Employee Relations Expert, Liz Charron, will delve into how HR teams can navigate the latest legal changes, connect screening to workforce ROI, and embed these practices into the very fab

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How To Have Clearing Conversations At Work

15Five

Tough conversations are a constant—and necessary—aspect of building a strong, connected, and diverse workforce. When you bring together different backgrounds, opinions, and priorities in the workplace, friction sometimes can’t be avoided. In a global study by CCP , more than 85% of employees cited experiencing conflict at work. So if disconnection is inevitable, how do we work towards clear and consistent conflict resolution?

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Fun At Work: 6 Tips For Managers

Vantage Circle

The word fun is rarely ( if ever ) associated with a working environment. The idea behind it is that a workplace is a serious place where things get done. Nobody has got the time to have a little fun at work. It’s unprofessional, unproductive, and disruptive. Right? Well, not quite. For employees, having a fun work environment is an important variable that contributes to a great place to work.

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The 21 metrics you need for Strategic Workforce Development

AIHR

Most organizations, small and large, have a defined vision, mission, and strategy. It communicates what an organization of people believes in (vision), its goal (mission), and how they want to achieve this goal in the coming years (strategy). In order to execute this strategy successfully, the organization needs the right number of people with the right skills, background, profiles, and experience.

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How Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Our subconscious minds are extremely powerful and when we build routines and habits, it allows us to capitalize on this part of our brain. In the video below, I will show you six incredible benefits we get when we flex our subconscious with routines and habits. Tweet it out: Recognize the value and power of […]. The post How Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leading to a New Normal

Agile42

By Marion Eickmann. We are happy to announce that a webinar will take place on July 2nd, by agile42's own Andrea Tomasini and his friend and colleague in leadership, Richard Sheridan. . Register to the webinar here. Inspiring Teams while Facing Reality. The first step of navigating a crisis is to ensure the safety of the team and stabilize the business.

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Your Team Needs 1-on-1s, Now More Than Ever

15Five

Friends, we are in unprecedented times. If I’d written this post in March, when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S. hard and many companies suddenly pivoted to having employees work from home, that statement would have been true. If I’d said this in April when we first started seeing the toll businesses and employees faced in bankruptcies and historic unemployment, it would have been true.

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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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9 Tips To Help Your Employees Avoid Distractions While Working From Home

Vantage Circle

With the current COVID-19 pandemic having brought the entire world to a standstill, companies have started implementing work-from-home policies to ensure their business operations keep running smoothly. Even though work-from-home or remote working is not a newly invented practice, it is gaining popularity among employers right now. As employees cannot go to their workplaces due to COVID-19, working from home is the best way to ensure that work is being completed.

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How to Minimize the Damage of One Bad Apple

Leadership Freak

Adding one bad apple to a team has 4X as much negative impact on a team’s performance as adding good apples. (The Power of Bad) The Big Five Personality Traits: #1.

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Beyond HR KPIs: Strategic Metrics for Organizational Development

AIHR

In this article, we will look beyond the scope of traditional HR KPIs. We will show that financial KPIs are not the end-goal – rather HR should step up its game and report on the leading indicators of organizational effectiveness. We will end the article with a list of recommended KPIs to focus on. Are financial KPIs enough to describe organizational effectiveness?

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4 Lessons On Successful Team-Building | Leadership Espresso Shot 14

Tanveer Nasser

One of the key metrics to gauge your success as a leader is how well you're able to get your employees to work together as a team. That's why in this latest Leadership Espresso Shot edition of my podcast, Leadership Biz Cafe, I share 4 lessons on successful team-building inspired from an unlikely source. Now there's no question team-building is both an important and often-discussion topic in the leadership space.

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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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How To Give Praise

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Entrepreneur magazine's February 2012 issue offered these great, timeless tips on how to give praise : Praise followed by criticism is not praise. Praise followed by praise is probably a little too much praise. Ending an expression of praise with ".and stuff" nullifies the praise. And, Make it timely. The closer the recognition is to the behavior, the more likely the behavior will be repeated.

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5 Employee Engagement Trends In The Era of Coronavirus

15Five

The term “employee engagement,” isn’t a new one. But since its original concept in 1990 and now, the way we view engagement in the workplace has shifted dramatically. The emphasis is no longer on the employee to be happy, but rather, on the employer to ensure each employee feels fulfilled in their role, supported by their manager and leaders, and connected to the company’s purpose.

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Why is Office Communication Important at the Workplace?

Vantage Circle

Communication in the office is crucial for the success of an organization. It allows organizations to work efficiently and be productive in the long run. Communication at the office can vary from emailed instructions to face-to-face conversations. But it is a combination of various communication styles in most of the cases. Open communication can help to improve employee engagement and productivity.

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Self-Deception: Feeling Right and Being Wrong

Leadership Freak

You can feel completely right and be absolutely wrong. Unnerving isn’t it? Self-deception is most likely when: #1. Entrenched ideas are challenged. Your mind is closed about things you’re certain about.

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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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The Ethical Benchmarking of HR analytics

AIHR

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. – Immanuel Kant. HR analytics has been defined as the systematic identification and quantification of the people drivers of business outcomes. Viewed from the perspective of Kant’s principle of mankind, it is notable that this definition fails to recognize people as an end in their own right.

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Wanda Wallace | How To Lead Employees Who Know More Than You

Tanveer Nasser

In today's increasingly complex workplaces, leaders need to be experts who can make the best decisions for their team. But how do you succeed at leadership over areas where your expertise is limited? That's what I'll be asking my guest, Wanda Wallace, in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe. Wanda is the managing partner of Leadership Forum, where she coaches leaders and works with teams to improve leadership capability.

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3 Secrets Of Productive People

Eric Jacobsen Blog

According to entrepreneur and author Margaret Hefferman , as reported a few years ago in Inc. magazine, the secrets of the most productive people are that they do these three things : They take breaks. Breaks refresh the mind and allow you to see new situations. They are great collaborators. They have lives outside work. In fact, the most successful have rich private lives that include interests that hone different skills and that let them think in different ways.

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Podcast Recap: Willie Jackson Discusses Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

15Five

We are at a pivotal moment in American History. I firmly believe that there is finally an opportunity to correct massive injustice, dismantle the structures of systemic racism, and co-create a new future where all people can have true freedom, equal rights, and equal opportunities for a life of safety and prosperity. To do that, we must first understand what lies beneath the surface personally and institutionally.

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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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A Brief Guide for New Managers

Vantage Circle

Ask any young professional the highlight of her career. Most of them are going to say that they being promoted to a managerial position was definitely one of the key moments in their career. While being promoted to a manager is thrilling, new managers are often susceptible to mismanagement due to their lack of experience. New managers tend to take up the middle management roles and are crucial to the proper structuring of the organization.

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Simple Choices Give Direction to Your Leadership

Leadership Freak

Responding to unforeseen events is part of your day. But if all you do is bounce from one issue to the next: You’re a problem-solver. The better part of leadership is seizing opportunities.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do.

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How to Effectively Engage With Multiple Project Stakeholders

Liquid Planner Collaboration

“Dear Elizabeth: I work with a difficult stakeholder population – there are a lot of them. My project has over a thousand people affected by the change my project is delivering, in multiple geographic locations. I know I should be doing stakeholder engagement and creating plans to work with them, but how do you get the one on one contacts with such a large group?”.

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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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How To Succeed As A Young Professional

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Good books I like to share. Really good books I like to share with lots of people. And, Nathan Magnuson ’s latest book, StandOut! Become a Young Professional Who Wins at Work and Life , is a really good book you, and lots of people, should know about. Written by a humble, wise, insightful millennial, Magnuson provides a timely resource to help young professionals excel in the workplace and beyond.

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The Importance Of Relational Mastery At Work

15Five

“The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives, but equally so, the quality of relationships at work determines the quality of our work and our overall ability to succeed,” says well-known psychotherapist, Esther Perel. Although relationships are critical to the individual success of employees and the overall success of organizations, soft skills have traditionally been de-emphasized.

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Organizational Culture and its Shift Post-Covid Crisis

Vantage Circle

Imagine yourself visiting a football game with your party wear or going to a fancy restaurant for dinner wearing your favorite jersey. Within a few minutes, people would start rolling eyes at you, and some may think you are demented and show empathy. This is how culture work. People have been trained to believe the norms and expected to act and behave in specific ways (based on culture).

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How to End the Frustration of Recurring Problems

Leadership Freak

Frustrated leaders complain about having the same conversation. “We’ve talked about this problem over and over.” Repetition creates the path of least resistance like rivers eventually wear channels in stone.

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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.