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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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Manager Employee Engagement 109

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. LinkedIn has a new practice of sharing your personal data to train AI — unless you specifically opt out. That includes your profile, your posts, and your videos. Without announcing it, LinkedIn apparently added a new data privacy setting last week that covers this, and they turned it on for everyone.

Media 141

Media Accounts Manager 141

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

Metrics 130

Metrics 130

Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: Is your work perceived by your clients or your prospects as incremental or radical? Let me break this apart for a little bit. Sometimes your ideas might be perceived as radical, and that’s a relative term.

Organizational Change 130

Organizational Change 130

Speaker: Jeremy York

Typically, when people think of diversity, they think of physical traits such as the color of one’s skin or physical abilities/incapabilities, etc. But diversity is much more than this. It is about appreciating our differences and including others that may have a different perspective or point of view. Our experiences, upbringings, education, and so many other things shape how we think, act, and feel—all of which make us diverse.

Diversity

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I Know some remarkable servant leaders. This post represents their passion. Average leaders deliver results. Servant leaders develop people who deliver results. People don’t rise to low standards. Stretch goals that are always reached are too low. Confront helplessness. Promote responsibility. Consider "The 5 Habits of Highly Effective Servant Leaders.

Leadership Development 106

Leadership Development 106

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. In last week’s question about burning out doing work that you love , I wrote this: I used to think the cure for burn-out was lots of downtime and relaxation — and sometimes it is — but what’s worked better for me personally is regularly using my brain for something completely different.

Revenue 126

Revenue Manager 126

Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The role of leadership has become increasingly complex and nuanced. However, amidst this complexity, certain persistent myths continue to shape the way many organizations approach leadership development and practice. These misguided beliefs can have a profoundly negative impact on an organization. They undermine an organization’s ability to thrive in today’s fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Leadership Development 102

Leadership Development Diversity Accounts 102

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Power corrupts, so does lack of power. Weakness isn't virture. The paradox of power is it grows when it’s shared and shrinks when it’s hoarded. Discomfort with power is contentment with weakness. Power is the ability to get something done. Embrace power responsibly. Expand power ethically. Here's how.

Leadership Development 101

Leadership Development 101

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A corporate “hiking retreat” made headlines last month when a participant was left stranded overnight on a 14,230-foot mountain. The employee was on a day-long “team-building” hike, and he was left behind after the rest of his colleagues made it down the mountain safely. Emergency responders found him stranded in a gully the next day.

Manager 109

Manager 109

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

Energy 121

Energy Manager 121

Speaker: Debra Squyres 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.

Retention

Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Motivating a team is crucial for achieving organizational goals and creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Effective motivation goes beyond mere task completion; it involves inspiring your team to commit passionately to their work and the broader organizational vision. As an experienced executive leadership coach, I’ve identified ten proven strategies to help any leader inspire and successfully motivate their team.

Workflows 97

Workflows Implementation Employee Engagement Leadership Development 97

BetterUp

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

At one point or another in our lives, chances are we all have said something along the lines of “I’m having an existential crisis.” It’s a concept we are quite familiar with, yet it is not often that we stop and think “What is an existential crisis? How do I know if I’m having one? How can I overcome it?

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off today, so here’s an older post from the archives. This was originally published in 2017. A reader writes: I started working at my job eight months ago, not long after I completed college (thanks in part to your write-ups about cover letters, resumes, interview questions and job searching).

Manager 95

Manager 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Working for a leader who always changes their mind is a maddening yet common experience. When the strategy is perpetually changing, it’s challenging to be enthusiastic about the strategy du jour. When rework is viewed as inevitable, high effort is difficult to justify. A leader who constantly changes their mind will often leave behind an emotional wake of resentment.

Manager 115

Manager 115

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.

Scaling

Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Has it ever occurred to you how engaged your employees truly are? Are they all engaged on the same level, or do their levels vary? Given the utmost significance of employee engagement today, it is high time to ponder where your employees stand in engagement levels. Understanding the different levels of employee engagement is vital for organizations aiming to cultivate a positive work culture and boost productivity.

Employee Engagement 94

Employee Engagement Inclusion Implementation Diversity 94

BetterUp

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It’s normal to wonder how to motivate yourself. See 15 evidence-based techniques for finding the motivation to achieve personal or professional goals.

Manager 105

Manager 105

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off today, so here’s an older post from the archives. This was originally published in 2019. A reader writes: I started a new position recently and was promoted quickly to a management position. Great, I have a long supervisory background, looking forward to helping in a wider capacity.

Insurance 95

Insurance Manager Benefits 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

Sales 121

Sales Sales Performance Management Manager 121

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

Michael McKinney

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

L AW professor Steven Collis is no stranger to polarized arguments. He specializes in the First Amendment. But he has found a way to have constructive discussions without them devolving into shouting matches or accusations. In Habits of a Peacemaker , he provides practical habits and skills to talk about hard topics in a productive way. These habits are more than tactics.

Education 92

Education Media Implementation 92

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

You can’t influence people who are protecting themselves from you. Ethical influence requires free response. You can’t pressure someone into being influenced. Everything you do that causes people to protect themselves corrodes influence. This post explains 5 ways leaders corrode their influence and 5 ways leaders enable responsiveness.

Leadership Development 89

Leadership Development 89

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off this week, so here’s an older post from the archives. This was originally published in 2019. A reader writes: My coworker, Lenora, is the oldest person in our office. She is generally friendly, cheerful, and a hard worker. However, despite her genuinely sweet nature, she is about to drive us all up the wall.

Manager 89

Manager 89

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The AI boom — and the growth of gen AI in particular — has introduced new points of conflict between employees and companies. Some of these have already started to play out, such as in the Writers Guild of America strike over how AI can and can’t be used in the entertainment industry. But others are still on the horizon. As AI becomes more integrated into business, high quality data for training AI becomes more valuable and a more important part of employees’ contribution.

Compensation 106

Compensation Benefits Manager 106

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.

Inclusion

Michael McKinney

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. Kevin Roberts on the future of business: “Even the best teams lose. In business, the best families don’t. A family will beat a team, a tribe, an institution, a community time after time. If you feel like a family and play like a team, your organization will operate at peak performance.

Operations 87

Operations 87

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Where are the leaders who inspire us? Words born in the brain touch reason. Words conceived in the heart inspire. Leaders tend to overuse logic. You need logic to inform. You need heart to move people. 3 ways to speak from the heart.

Leadership Development 87

Leadership Development 87

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off this week. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. My coworker’s food restrictions mean that I’ll be the one restricted My company is based mainly in two cities. Every so often, we all meet up in one city or another and go out to eat, paid for by the company.

Software 87

Software Manager 87

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on individuals’ and families’ lives, and until they do, social impact reporting is unlikely to approach the level of robustness associated with financial and environmental reporting.

Metrics 106

Metrics Inclusion 106

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.

Performance Management

Kotter Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As Starbucks and Chipotle navigate CEO transitions, Nick Petschek of Kotter shares how organisations can empower their leaders during leadership changes.

Human Resources 97

Human Resources Biotech Hospitality Nonprofit 97

BetterUp

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Jump to section What is love bombing? 11 signs of love bombing Stages of the love bombing cycle (and examples) Love bombing vs.

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off this week. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. Should I temporarily live in my boss’s spare bedroom? I’m in a bit of a housing bind, and dealing with some pretty serious anxiety to boot. I mentioned my anxiety issues to my boss to explain any lapses she may be seeing in my performance at work, and mentioned that my apartment search in NYC was

Recruitment 89

Recruitment Manager 89

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New research shows how foreign-owned factories tend to be more productive, higher paying, and more technologically advanced. Here’s how U.S. companies benefit.

Benefits 110

Benefits Engineering Transportation Government 110

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

Onboarding