Suzi McAlpine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If there’s one thing that’ll get most managers in a pickle, it’s dealing with conflict in their team. That tug of war. The slight that’s festering. The miscommunication that’s led to simmering, surly and sulky. The bun fight that’s bigger than Ben Hur… Most of us (me included) would rather sidestep the whole messy thing… The post 3 lessons for leaders to navigate conflict first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Manager 250

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Turning failure into a learning opportunity for growth. An interview with Don Schmincke about becoming blinded by the tools we use and making the best of entrepreneurial losses. What happens when the tools we use to analyze and take control of our environments become the cause of our destruction? Is your company using the tools they have at their disposal?

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Balance Sheet Engineering Strategic Planning Sales 272

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To get ahead in the business world, it’s not enough to think stategically. You also have to effectively communicate those ideas. There are several ways to do this, including elevating the conversation to focus on the big picture and broader context, being forward-looking in your comments, anticipating the effects of potential decisions, connecting disparate concepts, simplifying complex issues, using metaphors and analogies, stimultating dialogue with questions, showing you are informed, activel

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Manager 145

Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leadership is an essential aspect of any organization, as it sets the tone and direction for the team. A good leader not only ensures efficient use of resources, but also inspires, encourages, builds trust, and boosts morale. They act as mentors and empower their employees to reach their full potential. Here are some key times when leaders are especially needed: Creating a purpose : Leaders play a vital role in setting the purpose and goals for their teams.

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Employee Engagement Retention Leadership Development Manager 125

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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Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“What’s up?” You ask, somewhat concerned with what may come next. <Your team member takes a deep breath…> “I’ve accepted an offer at another company. I need to give you my formal notice.” Sooner or later every manager hears something like that. These words will always be painful for you to hear, especially if we are talking about a superb employee you can’t afford to lose.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Source: Super Entrepreneurs Podcast Information provided by Super Entrepreneurs Podcast “In today’s enlightening episode, we dive deep into the world of thought leadership with none other than Peter Winick, CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. As a seasoned expert, Peter unveils the behind-the-scenes strategies that power the most influential personal brands and successful entrepreneurs.

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Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Leadership is all about making decisions, but sometimes the best leaders can fall victim to indecision. Indecisiveness is a weakness that can sneak up on the most respected leaders, and it can have a detrimental effect on the organization. Here are a few reasons why this one trait of leadership should be eliminated, it causes the following: Disengaged employees: Indecisiveness can disengage employees by creating a sense of uncertainty and lack of direction within the organization.

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Manager 122

Thought Leaders LLC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Brilliant jerks are great to have around because they’re brilliant but they’re equally painful to have because they’re jerks. As a leader, the way you treat these brilliant jerks tells your organization a lot about what you value… and what you don’t. Today’s post is by Chris Laping, author of People Before Things: Change Isn’t an End-User Problem ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Chief Outsiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Article 4 of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen For modern-day businesses , establishing measures is not just a good idea – it’s a downright necessity. In fact, a poll of executive leaders found a nearly unanimous agreement that key performance indicators (KPIs) are essential to gauge the pulse of broad business goals.

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Strategic Planning KPI 110

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes). In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience.

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Deliverables Project Management Manager Operations 144

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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Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Leadership is not just about having the necessary skills and abilities, but also about having the right attitude. The best leaders understand that having the right attitude is a crucial aspect of their leadership that shapes their impact on others. As Charles Swindoll said, “ Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ” A positive attitude is a superpower that leaders can harness to react to any situation in a positive and productive way.

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Benefits Employee Engagement Manager Leadership Development 116

Tanveer Nasser

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Does your organization encourage a sense of curiosity? According to a survey in the Harvard Business Review, 83% of leaders say they do, but barely half of their employees would agree. Far from being something that’s ‘nice to have’, encouraging a sense of curiosity in your workplace is going to.

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Association Now Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A newly released McKinley Advisors report identified the five most prominent trends facing executives in the next decade. Association leaders will face challenges in five key areas across the next decade, according to a new survey. Earlier this year, association consultancy McKinley Advisors asked association executives, “What major trends or changes do you expect to occur within the field or industry your association represents over the next five to 10 years?

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Digital Transformation Travel Government Operations 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding. Third, adopt a growth mindset to help others strive for improvement instead of getting stuck on autopilot.

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Project Management Manager 143

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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Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business leadership, the question that arises is how to navigate the importance of Artificial Intelligence adoption. As a leadership executive coach, I understand the significance of finding the right leadership style to guide leaders and their organizations toward embracing AI intelligently. Here are four distinct leadership styles, each offering a unique approach to driving AI adoption.

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Inclusion Benefits Employee Engagement Leadership Development 116

Thought Leaders LLC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One of the most exciting aspects of building a high-performing team is recruiting people to be members of that team. Follow these three tips to improve your recruiting process. One of the most exciting aspects of building a high-performing team is recruiting people to be members of that team. There’s nothing better than finding that really talented person who wants to come work with you.

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Recruitment Project Management Manager 108

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Enemies don't help each other. People bring their best when they pull for each other. What do great relationships at work look like?

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Leadership Development 123

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve. A second reason is unreasonable constraints — when the effort doesn’t have adequate funding, people, time, or other key inputs.

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Project Management Government Benefits Manager 139

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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Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 31, 2023

All of us have biases, but as a leader it’s essential that we are aware of the potential biases that can influence our decision-making and actions. Unconscious biases are those that occur without our awareness and can have a significant impact on how we interact with others and how we lead. Here are the top five unconscious biases that leaders should take steps to avoid: Gender Bias: Gender bias refers to the unconscious belief that one gender is superior to the other.

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Diversity Leadership Development Manager 117

Michael McKinney

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here is a selection of Posts from October 2023 that you will want to check out: The One Trait Every Leader Should Eliminate by @LollyDaskal Toward a Better Model for Leader Development by @artpetty How The Right Values Help Increase Your Wellbeing by @LaRaeQuy The Art of Unlearning by @samchand People Skills: Responding to Disrespect With Dignity by @KateNasser Are High Performers More at Risk of Burnout?

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Manager 107

Scott Elbin

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How often do you stop what you’re doing to step back, pull up and look at the patterns of what’s going on in your environment, and ask questions like what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next? The most effective senior leaders I work with take the time and make the effort to regularly engage in a practice of pattern recognition and analysis. Doing that puts them ahead of competitors who don’t by identifying new opportunities to leverage and avoiding being blindsided by emerging trends.

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Manager 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. In response, the company proposed implementing a “KPI butterfly” to balance doing well (making money) against doing good (protecting society) as part of its digital transformation process.

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Digital Transformation KPI Operations Implementation 142

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

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. More importantly, they say that it is better for you as a leader to coach employees rather than supervise them.

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Deliverables Accounts Manager 104

Association Now Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Associations have more data to work with than ever, but that can paralyze decision-making. Many choices made quickly can be worth the risk. During the pandemic, associations learned a lot about how quickly they can change what they do. From shifting to remote work to building hybrid events, they countered the cliche of the “slow-moving ship” that’s long been attached to the industry.

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Benefits Manager 104

Michael McKinney

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou on wisdom: “Wisdom itself grounds us, helping us to shift from using our smartness for our own benefit—and often with a zero-sum mindset—to using it for creating new value for a higher purpose.

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Energy Benefits 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them? To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories.

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Manager 138

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

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do some young companies become unicorns ( a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion) , while others don’t? The book, What a Unicorn Knows , offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Those inhibitors include these four primary forces: Drag Inertia Friction Waste Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum

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Scaling Operations Sales Sales 104

Nir Eyal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Think you’ll explode if you try one more ineffective productivity hack? Here’s what you need to know to actually hack back distraction: there are only three causes of any distraction: an internal trigger, an external trigger, or a planning problem. A distraction tracker is the only way to help you figure out which of those is causing you to get distracted so you can do something about it.

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Michael McKinney

OCTOBER 30, 2023

C OMMUNICATION is a two-way process. It is imperative that we understand how to transmit and receive in order to have the appropriate communication that builds stronger relationships. The Evolution of Communication From the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt to the tweets of today, communication has always been humanity’s compass. By the firesides of our ancestors, stories shaped cultures and defined communities.

Leadership Development 103

Leadership Development 103

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A key part of your job as project leader is to keep your team motivated and on track when things start to go sideways. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies to try if you need to boost your team’s morale: 1) Re-establish or re-define the project purpose, goals, and vision. 2) Involve the team in trouble-shooting and defining the path forward. 3) Help remove obstacles. 4) Understand what motivates different team members. 5) Connect regularly as a team. 6) Celebrate small wins

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Project Management Performance Management Manager 141

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.

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