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How AI Is Helping Companies Redesign Processes

Harvard Business Review

Companies like Shell and DBS Bank are using it to change how their work gets done.

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Leaders, Don’t Be Afraid to Admit Your Flaws

Kellogg Insight

We prefer to work for people who can make themselves vulnerable, a new study finds. But there are limits.

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What Is Performance Management? The Complete Guide

AIHR

Effective performance management helps organizations ensure that employees understand their roles, receive constructive feedback, and have the support they need to achieve their goals and business objectives. Let’s look at what performance management is, what the performance management process looks like, and some examples. Contents What is performance management?

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The Two Biggest Communication Mistakes A Leader Can Make

Lolly Daskal

Good communication is a core principle of leadership. In my work as an executive coach, I stress communication to my clients every day. Two problems in particular seem to have the worst consequences when it comes to communication: Mistake No.1: Secrecy. Leadership requires transparency. That’s part of the reason that leaders who pride themselves on their authority often find themselves in trouble.

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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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Why Retailers Fail to Adopt Advanced Data Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Six factors holding the industry back — and how it can move ahead.

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My Ultimate Ten Point Guide to Personal Time Management Tactics and Strategies

Scott Elbin

In more than 20 years of executive coaching, I long ago lost count of the number of conversations I’ve been in about the challenges of personal time management. A quick count today of 15 years of my blog posts suggests that I’ve written on the topic at least a couple of dozen times. So, in the interest of helping you manage your time more effectively and saving you time while you do it, here’s my ultimate (for now) guide to personal time management tactics and strategies.

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5 Simple Ways to Show Your Appreciation to Your Employees

Lolly Daskal

Showing appreciation to your employees is important for building a positive work culture and for retaining top talent. Additionally, when employees feel valued and recognized, they are more likely to be engaged, motivated, and productive. Here are five simple ways to show your appreciation to your employees: Offer verbal praise and encouragement: Demonstrate appreciation for your employees by offering verbal praise and encouragement.

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5 Essential Soft Skills to Develop in Any Job

Harvard Business Review

You don’t have to be in your dream job to advance your career.

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CEO Branding | Raoul Davis

Peter Winick

Building thought leadership for CEOs An interview with Raoul Davis about building a personal brand using thought leadership. It is important for CEOs to have a personal brand that supports the ir organizational brand. That s why smart CEO s build their personal thought leadership early on, and maintain it throughout their careers. Today we are joined by Raoul Davis, the Founder, and CEO of Ascendant Group Branding one of the first and most integrated CEO branding firms.

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In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, We Need Our Human Skills To Keep It Real

Forbes Leadership

We're still early in the “hype cycle” of inflated expectations and fears, but in a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, we’ll need humans at the wheel more than ever.

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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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10 Reasons to Give Employees Recognition (Other Than to Say Good Job)

Lolly Daskal

Recognizing employees for their hard work and contributions to the company is important for several reason, and recognizing employee for their specific contributions to the company is even more important. Saying “good job” doesn’t cover the details of which people put in effort and perseverance, so it’s important to go beyond that when giving recognition.

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Leading with Compassion Has Research-Backed Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Why it helps you and your workplace — and how to get better at it.

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Recession Readiness for Small Businesses

Thought Leaders LLC

Jay Jung explains how small businesses can prepare for a recession by investing in finance and creating a restructuring plan. Today’s guest post is by Jay Jung, Founder and Managing Partner at Embarc Advisors. While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has recently dismissed fears of a recession, other economists disagree. Whether or not the US is on the verge of a recession today, wise business leaders are always prepared for one.

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Why Non-Linear Career Paths Are The Future

Forbes Leadership

As we face an ever-changing job market, non-linear career paths are becoming the new normal. Here are some reasons why.

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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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The Top 10 Habits of Successful CEOs

Lolly Daskal

As a CEO, success isn’t just about achieving your own personal goals. It’s also about driving the success of your organization and its employees. Here are the top ten habits of successful CEOs that get results: Prioritizing time: Successful CEOs focus on the most important tasks and responsibilities. They use their time and resources efficiently.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Risks Could Be Inside Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Your Biggest Cybersecurity Risks Could Be Inside Your Organization

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6 Habits That Are Secretly Making You Miserable

Nir Eyal

You wake up in the morning irritable and groggy but determined to be productive. Yesterday didn’t go well. You didn’t complete even the one big priority project that would have taken just a couple of hours if you’d focused. Still, you spent all day on the computer, even leaving your partner to handle dinnertime alone and canceling pickleball with friends.

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To Attract More Women In Tech, The Industry Needs To Change

Forbes Leadership

Great strides are being made to encourage diverse perspectives in the workplace, yet we’re still not giving women opportunities to truly lead within the sector.

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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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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters

Lolly Daskal

Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is the ability to understand and manage emotions of self and others. It is an important trait for leaders, as it enables them to effectively interact with and manage others. Here are some reasons why emotional intelligence matters in leadership: Emotional intelligence enables leaders to build strong relationships with their team.

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What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed?

Harvard Business Review

Seven research-backed strategies to drive real — and lasting — impact.

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Could Your Board Benefit From Spring Training?

Association Now Leadership

While you may think spring training is only relevant for professional baseball players, it’s a good training tool for boards too. One leadership and communication expert shares how spring training, or consistent training, makes for more effective boards and stronger associations. It’s officially spring training season for Major League Baseball. But this type of training isn’t just for professional athletes.

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The Women Working To Solve The Home Health Caregiver Crisis

Forbes Leadership

The home health crisis impacts not only a vulnerable workforce, but the patients and families who find themselves navigating complicated logistical and emotionally fraught issues as they attempt to find long-term care for their loved ones.

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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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Talent Mapping: How HR Can Use a Skills-Focused Approach

AIHR

Talent mapping is an essential tool for HR professionals to develop a comprehensive understanding of their workforce’s skills levels and gaps and address these gaps. In this article, we propose a skills-focused approach toward talent mapping as an alternative to the traditional 9-box grid and explore the benefits of shifting towards a skills-focused approach.

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How to Become More Adaptable in Challenging Situations

Harvard Business Review

We often fall back on old habits when facing tough problems. But that’s when we need new approaches the most.

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When you have to deliver a tough message, what best describes your approach?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When you have to deliver a tough message, what best describes your approach? I deliver it directly and without apology or cushioning: 32.15% I strike a balance between tough news and positive news: 62.15% I soft-pedal the message and risk it not being received: 4.28% I avoid delivering the message and hope they’ll figure it out on their own: 1.42% Beware the “But” Sandwich.

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How To Cope With The Constant Barrage Of Workday Microstressors

Forbes Leadership

We all experience issues in the workplace that make us miserable. Getting laid off, losing out on a promotion and raise or being ordered to return to the office mentally and emotionally beats you down. Many mundane annoyances build up over time, making you feel disengaged from your job and company.

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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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Upshift: How to Turn Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

Michael McKinney

P ROBLEMS come our way. They always do. And too little of the associated stress is not good. We become disengaged, demotivated, and unfulfilled. But with too much stress we become overloaded, and we just feel like shutting down. But in between is the Challenge Zone. International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stre

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An Outcomes-Focused Approach to Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Five considerations for mental-health-care providers, insurers, and employers.

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Do You Set Supporting Goals?

Thought Leaders LLC

Setting goals for supporting functions helps link people’s roles and the work they do every day to your department’s larger goals. It’s easy to focus on big departmental goals, but not everyone on the team can directly affect those numbers. Setting goals for supporting functions helps link people’s roles and the work they do every day to that broader departmental goal.

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15 Exercises Leaders Can Use To Foster Appreciation For Team Diversity

Forbes Leadership

It can be challenging for leaders to help team members better understand and appreciate the distinct perspectives and experiences that their teammates from different backgrounds bring to the table.

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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.