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How Great Leaders Acknowledge Their Employees Effectively

Lolly Daskal

Every great leader knows the benefits of investing in their employees, but too many don’t know how to carry out one of the strongest forms of employee investments: acknowledgement. In my work as a leadership coach, I’m able to work closely with leaders who are engaged in using acknowledgement to create a culture that keeps employees engaged, productive and fulfilled.

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8 tips for leading a team remotely

Suzi McAlpine

There are loads of benefits to working remotely. For one, we can roll out of bed with time for a workout, wear trackpants on our lower half all day and cook up a storm in our home kitchens at lunchtime – all obvious perks! But leading remotely can bring its challenges. That lack of face-time… The post 8 tips for leading a team remotely first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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5 Ways to Choose Generosity

Leadership Freak

I was heating the grill to cook steaks when our son-in-law pulled in unexpectedly with one of our grandsons. We had two extra steaks in the fridge.

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How to Grow Your Business with 20% of the Work

Michael Hyatt

While weak leaders blame their followers for a lack of alignment, strong leaders know that it is their responsibility to create it. Alignment doesn’t just happen. It is created. Here are three ways to make it happen with your team. The post How to Grow Your Business with 20% of the Work appeared first on Full Focus.

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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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Why Is Cash Flow Important To Survive In Our Tough Business Climate?

Growth Institute

Today's three most significant challenges facing the business world— inflation, talent retention, and supply chain issues —have left many companies looking for ways to ensure that their finances weather the storm. You might be closely monitoring your company's revenue and profit if you’re an entrepreneur, CEO, or another executive. You might believe that keeping those measures in check will help you scale your business even during these difficult times.

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Understanding The Power Of Words To Empower Or Extinguish Employee Potential

Tanveer Nasser

Effective communication is a critical cornerstone to succeeding at leadership. And yet, numerous studies have shown that a majority of leaders lack this necessary skill to not only empowering employees, but retaining talent necessary to drive their organization’s growth and long-term prosperity. It’s not surprising then why every month or. Click to continue reading.

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13 Future HR Skills You Need to Start Building Now

AIHR

The dynamic reality we live and work in requires HR professionals to develop new skills if they want to contribute to their organization’s goals and help their businesses thrive. While HR skills like HRM expertise, strategy creation & execution, teamwork, reporting skills, and commercial awareness are not going anywhere, HR practitioners need to be deliberate about future-proofing their skill sets.

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Most U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups Have An Immigrant Founder

Forbes Leadership

Americans should be pleased so many immigrants have succeeded armed only with ambition, a keen mind and a desire to work hard.

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Leading Thoughts for July 28, 2022

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Betsy Myers on how leadership is about how you make people feel not only about the work but themselves: “The truth of life is that it doesn’t unfold through lofty mission statements or happen in broad strokes.

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7 Tactics to Solve Drama at Work

Leadership Freak

Troublemakers are smart, manipulative, and self-serving. Drama at work means: Hot situations get hotter. Difficult situations become more painful. Confusing situations seem unsolvable.

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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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Headcount Planning: An HR Practitioner’s Guide

AIHR

Well-executed headcount planning helps your organization grow sustainably and improve performance. Let’s explore what headcount planning is and how you can implement headcount planning best practices at your business. Contents What is headcount planning? Why does your organization need headcount planning? Headcount planning best practices. What is headcount planning?

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How to Welcome Failure at Your Association

Association Now Leadership

Success and innovation don’t come without taking some risks. Leaders can create a workplace environment that rewards risk-taking while embracing failure as an opportunity to grow. Associations may be hotbeds of social and cultural change, but their operations sometimes don’t reflect that mover-and-shaker mentality. An organization that leans too heavily on tradition may have staid member offerings, insular boards, and a staff that doesn’t feel it can innovate.

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4 Growth Strategies Healthcare Suppliers Must Get Right to Remain Relevant

Chief Outsiders

The healthcare sector has always been one of constant change, experiencing transformation in technology, policy, and practice on a near regular basis. But the level of uncertainty and complexity since the pandemic hit has put understanding how the business of healthcare has changed on life support. COVID-19 didn’t just make a lot of people sick across the country, it infected the entire U.S. healthcare system itself.

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Humility: Some Churches Practice Foot Washing

Leadership Freak

Strange thoughts come to me in the shower. This morning while washing my feet, I thought, “Some churches practice foot washing.” My second thought was, “No way is anyone washing my feet.

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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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Take 5: Learn to Love Networking (or at Least Tolerate It)

Kellogg Insight

A look at the social and psychological factors that can make networking uncomfortable and how to overcome them.

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How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most

Scott Elbin

If there’s one topic I hear about all the time from the leaders I work with, it’s the challenge of keeping themselves and their teams focused on what matters most. The long and ever-changing list of things competing for their time and attention can cause a sense of swirl and churn that leaves everyone frustrated and exhausted. A few months ago, I was facilitating a senior leadership team meeting where the focus challenge came up again and, after listening for a while, I drew this grid on the fli

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How EdTech Firms Are Bringing Higher Education To The Metaverse

Forbes Leadership

Innovative companies are solving the scalability issues of higher education by offering virtual learning spaces in the metaverse.

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ENTICEMENT: THE ROAD TO BECOMING EASILY IMPRESSED – SATURDAY SAGE

Leadership Freak

A person who is hard to impress misses life’s great experiences. A person who is easily impressed notices things that a guarded person never sees.

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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 Is the Twitter–Musk Showdown Likely to Play Out? An Expert Weighs In.

Kellogg Insight

“In my view, there is a lot of hypocrisy here from Musk.

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How to Find Balance Between Leadership and Management

Thought Leaders LLC

Today’s post is by Ming Ong. Learn more about him at the end of the post. Here’s Ming… In Leading Change, the Leaders as Chief Transformation Officer, Warren Bennis said, “Management is getting people to do what needs to be done. Leadership is getting people to want to do what needs to be done. Managers push. Leaders pull. Managers command.

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Paradox Mindset: The Source of Remarkable Creativity in Teams

Instead Knowledge

Teams are more successful if they embrace internal differences and explore conflicting ideas instead of glossing over them.

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2 Unexpected Ways Success Leads You Astray

Leadership Freak

Success teaches you things to continue. Failure teaches you things to change. You repeat failure when all you do is study success. Enjoy winning. Learn from failure. #1.

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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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Instead Of Hybrid, Remote Or In-Office Work Styles, This May Be A Better Option

Forbes Leadership

The conversations surrounding returning to work are primarily focused on hybrid, remote or in-person models. However, there is another option that offers a potentially better balance of life and work that is mostly overlooked by major corporations: flexibility.

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Why Remote Work Will Win This Fall

SHRM Organizational Development

The monumental battle over remote work is heating up this summer as more traditionalist business leaders are demanding that their employees come to the office much or all of the time. Google maps workers, asked to come back to the office full-time recently, fought back with a petition and threats of a strike, and won a reprieve of 90 days. Elon Musk demanded that all Tesla staff come to the office full-time, resulting in Tesla staff getting recruited by other companies.

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Does your leader give you enough of their time and attention?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Does your leader give you enough of their time and attention? Absolutely! I get everything I need from them 26.06%. Mostly. Sometimes I wish I got more 32.19%. Not really. I feel like a bit of an afterthought 31.03%. Not at all. It’s like I don’t even exist 10.72%. Allocating appropriate time. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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What New Research Is Saying About Today’s Workplace Models

Association Now Workplace

It’s been more than two years since the pandemic shifted the way we work, and researchers are now offering deeper insights about what’s changed. Remote work is temporarily moderating wage growth and may increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, some workers—particularly Gen Z—want more in-office presence. With the world of work having forever changed with the pandemic, association leaders are trying to find the right fit for their organization.

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Miss One Change, Face Major Risk: The New Compliance Crisis In HR And How To Fix It

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.

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Looking For Talent? Find Out How To Hire Disabled Workers

Forbes Leadership

Most disabled job seekers never get seen by employers, and the reasons are as complicated as they are disappointing, but that's changing thanks to new recruiting platforms.

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Why Skills-Based Hiring is Here to Stay

SHRM Organizational Development

Skills-based hiring is coming to the fore. Harvard Business School analysts suggest that "only 27% of the pivot to skills-based approaches in the hiring processes are "cyclical resets" or short-term responses to the recruitment crisis, while the majority (63%) are "structural resets." In fact, hiring based on skills is five times more predictive of future performance than hiring by education.

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How to Keep Your Best People in a Disrupted Workplace

Association Now Leadership

Retaining employees these days means getting a deeper understanding of what their needs and vulnerabilities are. But doing that means leaders need to be vulnerable too. Last week, Associations Now published its latest Deep Dive package, “ No Going Back ,” which covers the new association workplace. Circling around that theme is a complicated question that’s become more urgent than ever: What’s a workplace?

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our remote staff want the same perks we give in-office staff

Alison Green

This post, our remote staff want the same perks we give in-office staff , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a company that has both in-office employees and work-from-home employees. When we plan events in the office such as chair massages and catered lunches, we offer work-from-home employees the opportunity to work in the office and participate in whatever event we are having, though they rarely come in for them.

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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.