Sweet Process

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by Owen McGab Enaohwo Start your free 14-day trial of SweetProcess No credit card needed. Cancel anytime. Click Here To Try it for Free. Improving employee engagement and maximizing profits depends on how good a manager is. Companies always thrive in workplaces where employees love their jobs and customers […] The post How to Be a Good Manager: Tools and Tricks from Seasoned Professionals [13 Must-Have Qualities and Traits] appeared first on SweetProcess.

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Manager Employee Engagement 111

Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

What Every Author Needs to Know About Protecting Their Rights and Marketing Their Book In this episode, Michael Jenet shares his journey from author, on the brink of losing the rights to their own book, to publisher ensuring what happened to him, never happens to another author. What happens when your publisher holds your book hostage? Today on Leveraging Thought Leadership, Bill Sherman speaks with Michael Jenet, author of “Ask: The Questions to Empower Your Life” and founder of Jou

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Nonprofit Marketing Media Government 281

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 145

Metrics 145

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.

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Media Accounts Manager 141

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

Benefits

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.

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Leadership Development Diversity Accounts 133

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 127

Leadership Development 127

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 128

Revenue Manager 128

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 131

Workflows Implementation Employee Engagement Leadership Development 131

Kellogg Insight

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Research-backed advice for your next conversation.

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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.

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Energy Manager 143

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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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 119

Manager 119

Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Effective leadership is much more than just managing people and processes. Successful leaders inspire confidence, foster a positive workplace culture, and drive their organizations toward long-term goals. Certain qualities distinguish truly effective leaders from mere managers. As an executive leadership coach, I have identified seven essential qualities that every successful leader must possess to achieve outstanding results and cultivate a thriving team environment.

Diversity 130

Diversity Manager Leadership Development 130

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 115

Leadership Development 115

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 142

Manager 142

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.

Retention

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off today. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. Giving extra time off to people who get married My friend got married this weekend, and she mentioned to me that her office gives her an extra week of PTO to use in the year which she got married.

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Manager Recruitment 116

AIHR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

HR process improvement is a necessary part of a company’s long-term HR management strategy. Establishing processes to ensure accurate, timely, and efficient task completion improves the overall work experience and gives HR more time to focus on strategic initiatives. Using generative AI (GenAI) as an example of an HR process improvement tool, Boston Consulting Group projected that GenAI deployments could free up 25% to 30% of an HRBP’s (HR Business Partner) time.

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Process Improvement Human Resources Compliance Workflows 111

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 106

Leadership Development 106

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Take 15 minutes once a week to reflect on your health in these five areas.

Manager 142

Manager 142

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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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 111

Software Manager 111

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.

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Employee Engagement Inclusion Implementation Diversity 105

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 106

Leadership Development 106

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

How to spot the difference between confidence and competence.

Manager 143

Manager 143

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.

Benefits

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 111

Manager 111

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.

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Education Media Implementation 100

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.

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Organizational Change 100

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.

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Sales Sales Performance Management Manager 143

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

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts.

Manager 105

Manager 105

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Christiana Aguilera sings, “When there’s no one else, look inside yourself, like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within.” Sometimes your inner voice is wrong.

Leadership Development 99

Leadership Development 99

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Two case studies show how they can improve outcomes.

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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