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Employee Experience Strategy: Build Yours in 11 Steps

AIHR

Competitive salaries and benefits are important, but they are no longer enough. Employees want fulfilling work environments that support their growth and wellbeing. This is where an effective employee experience strategy comes in. For HR professionals, developing this strategy needs a thoughtful, data-driven approach that’s aligned with your company’s goals and culture.

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Leading with Soul: The Power of Spiritual Intelligence | Yosi Amram

Peter Winick

Why Integrating Spiritual Values is the Future of Leadership A conversation with Yosi Amram about researching Spiritual Intelligence and bringing it into corporate leadership. In this episode of Thought Leadership Leverage, host Bill Sherman sits down with Yosi Amram, a political psychologist, CEO, leadership coach, and the award-winning author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership: How to Inspire by Being Inspired.

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Research: How to Build Consensus Around a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

Previous research has found that new ideas are seen as risky and are often rejected. New research suggests that this rejection can be due to people’s lack of shared criteria or reference points when evaluating a potential innovation’s value. In a new paper, the authors find that the more novel the idea, the more people differ on their perception of its value.

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Hard Work Doesn’t Earn Promotions

Leadership Freak

Work that isn’t noticed isn’t valued. People who work hard are overlooked for promotions every day. Helping doesn’t advance your career when others see you as a helper, not a leader.

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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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13 Practical Performance Management Strategies To Implement (In 2024)

AIHR

Performance management strategies are crucial for driving results. Yet, companies often overlook them and don’t allocate sufficient resources to their development. Gallup and SHRM found that under 20% of employees find their performance reviews inspiring, and 95% of managers are dissatisfied with their organizations’ review systems. However, 60% of companies with effective performance management systems report outperforming their peers.

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Why the Most Successful Leaders Don’t Care About Being Liked

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I routinely challenge the notion that effective leadership means being liked. In guiding numerous organizations, I’ve discovered that the most successful leaders know their true impact extends well beyond mere popularity. Here’s why leaders disregard the need to be liked: Approval Can Cloud Judgment: Leaders fixated on likability may avoid necessary risks.

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Take 5 Steps with Critics

Leadership Freak

There are two kinds of critics. Those who push against your success and grumblers trying to help. Embrace prickly helpers. Ignore stone-throwers on the sidelines. Some critics care. Take five steps with critics. #1. Clarify concerns. Don't explore criticism until everyone agrees on the issue. More.

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I’m worried a wedding vendor will complain about me to my boss

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: This starts with my wedding. To make a very long story short, my wedding dress alterations were a complete disaster. The seamstress produced such awful work that I had to have an emergency appointment with another shop to fix the dress, just days before my wedding.

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How Can You Tell Someone Has Exceptional Leadership Skills? It Boils Down to One Word

Lolly Daskal

I’ve had the privilege of working with numerous leaders across various industries and around the world. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve guided my clients to observe that the most exceptional leaders share a common trait that sets them apart: intentionality. Intentionality is the key characteristic that distinguishes truly exceptional leaders from their counterparts.

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Finding Joy as a Manager — Even on Bad Days

Harvard Business Review

When work and life are overwhelming, it can be difficult to reclaim a sense of joy at work. Research has shown the benefits of incorporating joy, hope, and optimism into the workplace to combat burnout and improve well-being. The author recommends four strategies to reconnect with joy at work on your toughest days: 1) Find your why: Reconnect with your passion and purpose by aligning your work with what brings you joy, what you are good at, and what the world needs. 2) Embrace a beginner’s minds

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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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Do 3 things to Rise Above Self-Deception

Leadership Freak

Self-deception means feeling wrong when you’re right and feeling justified when you’re wrong. Self-deception is self-betrayal. Do three things to rise above a pervasive limiter of leaders. The most powerful words you say are the ones you say to yourself.

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is chest hair unprofessional, wife doesn’t want me to hire a woman, 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 it unprofessional to show chest hair at work? I’m an admin at a large university in the midwest. I wear collared shirts every day, and given the recent heatwave, I unbuttoned an extra button to try to be a bit more comfortable in our stuffy office.

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The Best Employees Are Smart and Driven. But 1 Other Habit Makes Them Irreplaceable

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach with decades of experience, I’ve worked with high-performers across industries. While intelligence, ambition, and expertise are essential, I’ve found there’s one critical habit that sets the truly irresistible employees apart. This one particular habit I believe is foundational for anyone aspiring to be irresistible.

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5 Moments That Make or Break a CEO-Board Chair Relationship

Harvard Business Review

A Spencer Stuart survey of nearly 200 directors and 30 CEOs of S&P 500 companies zeroed in on where trust is built — and where it’s lost.

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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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Recognition is the Secret Weapon to Building a Thriving Workplace

Vantage Circle

What is the hallmark of a truly successful workplace? In today’s day and age, it’s a feeling that connects an individual in a unique yet powerful way to their organization. It’s a feeling of belonging and purpose. A feeling of being valued for the unique contributions one brings to the table. It's the result of belonging to a living, kicking entity and not merely lifeless, corporate machinery.

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updates: boss renegotiated my start date behind my back, meetings in the metaverse, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. My boss renegotiated my new job’s start date behind my back I took your advice with the exit interview and shared just enough for them to understand exactly why I was leaving without having to say it outright, without getting into detail or emotionality about it.

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Leading Thoughts for August 22, 2024

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. Neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall on guilt: “Trying to be guilt-free and have the highest self-esteem leads us into an irresponsible life no matter how successful we are in our careers and social lives. If our ultimate self-help goal is increasing and protecting our self-esteem, we risk preventing ourselves from making necessary substantive changes in our

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Q&A: To Protect the Natural World, We Need to Put a Price on It

Harvard Business Review

NOAA’s chief scientist explains how new technologies can help businesses understand their impact, create new financial instruments, and enhance risk management.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Five most asked questions by Certified Scrum Master training participants

Agile42

What are the KPIs for a Scrum Master? This is the million dollar question, isn’t it? The Scrum Master’s responsibility should be to focus on themes rather than specific KPIs. These themes include: Scrum Team : Coaching the team to enhance effectiveness. Product Owner : Supporting the Product Owner in improving their role. Organisation : Leading efforts to help the organisation adopt Agile and Scrum, including addressing organisational impediments.

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my coworker is telling people I spit in her coffee (I didn’t)

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m early in my career and in my late twenties. I’ve been with the same company for around four years now and have been working hybrid since early 2022. Tempest works in the same small office that I do. There are maybe 10 of us who come in regularly, but she works on a different team.

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For Corporations, Secured Debt Is Out

Kellogg Insight

The last century has seen a dramatic shift toward unsecured debt thanks to improved accounting practices and a desire for financial flexibility.

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Research: Consumers Spend Loyalty Points and Cash Differently

Harvard Business Review

Do consumers treat loyalty points the same way that they treat traditional money? And, how do they choose to spend one versus the other? The authors of this article present research findings from their analysis of data describing over 29,000 unique loyalty points earning and spending transactions made during two recent years by 500 airline loyalty program consumers.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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3 Factors Inventors Share: How to Change the World

Michael McKinney

W HAT does it take to make an impact on the world? A great idea, yes, but also three common traits: opportunity, perseverance, and faith. As an inventor with seven patents in the energy and chemical areas I can cite my own experience to substantiate the importance of these traits as factors that lead to success. When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same

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candidates ask so many questions that our interviews are running over schedule

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am a manager in the process of expanding my team, so I have been interviewing many job seekers lately. We always give candidates a good 10 to 15 minutes at the end of the interview to ask us any questions they might have about the job, the organization, or the application process.

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How to Measure Employee Recognition: Driving Success Through Data

Vantage Circle

Employee recognition is a critical component of a thriving workplace, but how can its impact be effectively measured? Utilizing data-driven approaches to track and evaluate recognition programs can provide valuable insights, ensuring that appreciation efforts not only boost morale but also contribute to overall organizational success. This blog explores the key metrics and strategies for measuring employee recognition, turning appreciation into a powerful tool for driving performance and engagem

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When Resentment Is Building on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Is resentment simmering on your team? Sometimes resentment looks like lashing out; other times it manifests as silence or withdrawal. In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on what to do if you’re worried about resentment building on your team: 1) Don’t assume the issue will resolve on its own. 2) Stay close to your team. 3) If you see something, say something. 4) Embrace tough feedback. 5) Advocate for your team. 6) Shake things up. 7) Focus on common goals.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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How to Successfully Navigate the Challenges of Shifting to a Less Hierarchical Company

Lolly Daskal

In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, many companies are shifting away from traditional hierarchical structures to embrace flatter, more collaborative organizational models. This transition can bring numerous benefits, such as increased innovation, faster decision-making, and improved employee engagement. However, navigating the challenges that come with this shift requires careful planning and effective leadership.

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toll collectors, fear of being set on fire, and other things we believed about work when we were kids

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week we talked about weird things we believed about work as kids. Here are 12 of the funniest misunderstandings you shared. 1. Firings When I was 4 or 5, I tended to take most things literally. So I thought getting fired meant that if you were bad at your job, you were taken out of the building and set on fire as a punishment. 2.

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Employee Recognition Letter with 5 sample letters

Vantage Circle

Recognition is the spark that lights the fire of the employee's zeal to perform better. In the hustle of daily work, it's easy to forget the heartbeat of any organization: its people. Yet, a simple act of appreciation can brighten even the busiest day. Crafting an employee recognition letter is more than just acknowledging tasks; it's about celebrating the human spirit behind the effort.

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Research: What Happens When Influencers Turn Off Comments

Harvard Business Review

Influencers are often targets of online negativity, and how they respond to this feedback can have important ramifications for their personal brands and the effectiveness of their product endorsements. Recent research shows that one commonly employed tactic — turning off social media comments — can undermine influencers’ key assets: their persuasiveness, likability, and perceived sincerity.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.