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Here’s the Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive

Lolly Daskal

There is growing evidence to suggest that positive work cultures are more productive than negative ones. In fact, research shows that employees who feel positive about their work environment are more likely to be engaged, motivated, and productive. On the other hand, employees who work in negative or toxic cultures are more likely to be disengaged and less productive.

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6 Proven Ways to Smile More

David Grossman

A client recently realized that she wants to smile more. Having seen herself on a number of corporate videos and in virtual meetings , she’s made a note that when she smiles in her delivery, she conveys her excitement more naturally, is more motivating, and overall, comes off as more like herself. Smiling naturally is a powerful way to connect with others and can positively impact how we feel as well.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Michael McKinney

T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.

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The 1% rule – what it is and why it’s useful for you as a leader

Suzi McAlpine

You might have heard of the 1% improvement rule utilised by Head of British Cycling, Sir Dave Brailsford when he applied the theory of marginal gains to cycling with the UK team who went on to achieve gold medals. Brailsford said, “The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could… The post The 1% rule – what it is and why it’s useful for you as a leader first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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The Future of Leadership Development: How to Prepare for What’s Next

Lolly Daskal

Despite investing heavily in education for their executives, many companies don’t see a good return on their investment. This is because traditional educators and businesses don’t often teach the vital skills necessary for success. Even if individuals receive some training, they may not stay with the company that paid for it. As an executive leadership coach, I have observed that most organizations’ leadership development programs are standardized and one-size-fits-all.

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How to Clarify and Share Your Aspirations for the Way People Treat Each Other at Work

Leadership Freak

The difference between a great place to work and a job is the way people treat each other.

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“It worked really well, until it didn’t”

Chief Outsiders

Over dinner with Ted, the retired founder/CEO of a successful company in the electric power sector, I heard an interesting story with a widely applicable lesson.

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The Power of Perspective: Why Your View as a Leader Matters

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I often guide my clients on the importance of having the right perspective as a leader. In my experience, a leader’s perspective is crucial because it is what people will follow. Therefore, it is essential for a leader to understand their perspectives, as their views truly matter. There are four key perspectives that I believe a leader must have in order to make a meaningful impact on those they lead.

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7 Ways to Advance Self-Care

Leadership Freak

Sometimes the greatest gift you can give your team is to let them go home. Image of a welcome mat.

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Self-Care for Coaches

Ed Batista

Coaching is a very fulfilling activity, and I feel lucky to spend all day, every day working with leaders in this capacity. But it's also very demanding, which is why I try to take good care of myself--and my practice--in a variety of ways. This certainly includes the basics: mindfulness, exercise, sleep, reducing chronic stress. [1] But more specifically, there are four self-care practices for coaches that I follow myself and recommend to colleagues. 1.

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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More Tasks than Time? Spring Clean Your To-Do List

Michael Hyatt

It’s that time of year: Spring cleaning. It’s an annual tradition that goes back forever, and most of us get a piece of the action. Seven in ten Americans participate every year. You can find countless spring-cleaning checklists, tips, and shortcuts. But most of these lists miss the messiest part of our lives: our to-do […] The post More Tasks than Time?

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The 10 Decision That Can Change Your Leadership Life

Lolly Daskal

We all make decisions every day. As an executive leadership coach, my clients make business decisions constantly. But it’s who they are as leaders that makes their other decisions more impactful. Here are 10 decisions that I have encouraged my clients to make so that their leadership lives can change forever: Choosing to find meaning in what they do: This decision can help leaders find meaning in what they do and can make work more meaningful and life more purposeful.

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10 Ways Managers Maintain Credibility When Higher-ups Reverse Decisions

Leadership Freak

Promised promotions aren’t happening. Instead of increasing headcount you’re laying off. How can you maintain credibility with your team when upper-management changes decisions? Your word feels like a promise to your team.

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How Remote Work Has Affected Real Estate Values

Forbes Leadership

The remote working boom that was seen during the pandemic has undoubtedly changed how we work in a fundamental way. New research explores what impact it has had on the corporate real estate market.

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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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360 Degree Feedback: A Comprehensive Guide

AIHR

With 360-degree feedback, employees get valuable input from multiple directions about what they’re like to work with. Instead of being limited to the perception or bias of a direct supervisor, they receive a broader and more balanced viewpoint. Realizing that others may not view them how they want to be seen can inspire employees to devote more effort to their development.

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The Letter Every Leader Must Write To Those They Lead

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it is important to not only focus on the task at hand, but also to take the time to connect with those you lead on a personal level. One way to do this is through the written word. Here are some suggestions to express and that would make a difference to those you lead: Make today count. People often forget that the activities they do today will impact their future.

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3 Essential Culture Rules all Leaders must Apply

Leadership Freak

3 essential culture rules for high performance culture: aspire, amplify, and adapt. Image a of bright sunrise.

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Silicon Valley Bank’s Meltdown Could Fuel Widespread Job Losses

Forbes Leadership

Fallout from the troubled Silicon Valley Bank could adversely impact the job market, particularly in the venture capital, startup and cryptocurrency sectors where SVB was a prominent lender and banker.

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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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Authors and Community | Jeremy Madsen

Peter Winick

The importance of authors supporting authors An interview with Jeremy Madsen about author communities and the journey to get published. Unless you are writing a book with a co-author or ghostwriter, it probably feels like a very lonely task. But what if you could find a fellowship that provided encouragement and advice? Our guest today is Jeremy Madsen, Operations Manager for BK Authors an author group affiliated with the award–winning publisher Berrett-Koehler.

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Podcast: Workers Are Stressed Out. Here’s How Leaders Can Help.

Kellogg Insight

On this episode of The Insightful Leader: You can’t always control what happens at work. But reframing setbacks, and instituting some serious calendar discipline, can go a long way toward reducing stress.

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5 Answers for Resistance to Development

Leadership Freak

Some leaders refuse to change. You want them to rise. They offer resistance to development and cling to patterns that hold them down. Resistance to development feels like pushing an unwilling rope.

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Covid Generation Is ‘Less Smart’ As Result Of Pandemic Lockdowns, Study Finds

Forbes Leadership

Students whose education was disrupted by Covid lockdowns have not only lost out on their learning, but are also less intelligent than previous generations, new research has found.

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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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Thought Leadership and Artificial Intelligence | Spencer Ante

Peter Winick

How AI will affect the future of thought leadership. An interview with Spencer Ante about the history of thought leadership and how AI could be used in the future. How does the world of thought leadership intersect with the growing technology of AI? A lot of news stories lately have focused on the use of AI “bots” to answer questions, generate images, or create entire dissertations on a topic.

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Leadership Pro Tip: Embrace a Curious Mindset

Association Now Leadership

A sense of curiosity can help uncover new ideas and get your brain tuned in to other kinds of thinking. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it built the leader. Leadership in many ways is built around making important decisions, and if you’re making the same types of decisions over and over, your leadership style might struggle as a result. But one way to fix that?

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There’s Nothing Quiet About It: The Shifting Employee-Employer Relationship 

AIHR

In brief Recently, there has been a plethora of articles headlining one of these buzzwords. Comically, these trends are often described as unprecedented or life-changing concepts that are entirely new to HR. They’re not. Quiet Quitting has been well-studied. It is called employee disengagement. Quiet Hiring is nothing new. It’s called having a good internal mobility strategy.

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The Latest College Extravagance: $100 Million “Football Operations Centers”

Forbes Leadership

The University of Oklahoma took a giant stride toward keeping up with the Joneses this week with the announcement that its Board of Regents had approved plans to construct a “state-of-the-art” football operations center with an estimated budget of $175 million.

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Miss One Change, Face Major Risk: The New Compliance Crisis In HR And How To Fix It

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.

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We Need More Useful Intelligence, Not Just Artificial Intelligence

Chief Executive

Artificial or not, what’s most important is that intelligence be useful. Which is why there’s a better name for what businesses need right now: Useful Intelligence or what I call UI, or a tool that filters out bad or even dangerous information and delivers fact-based, well-researched data genuinely useful to humankind, and in turn companies across the world.

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Why the Hybrid Office Still Isn’t Settled Yet

Association Now Leadership

Four-day workweeks? Fully remote? Plenty of options are still on the table for leaders. And now is a good time to look into what works. The struggle to create a post-COVID workplace that works for everybody is still going strong. Many associations settled on hybrid work arrangements in 2022, but there’s still a lot of work happening to address changing needs, and changing attitudes about employee wellness.

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How HR Can Use Screening Interviews to Hire Top Talent

AIHR

A screening interview is a preliminary stage of the hiring process that enables HR professionals to evaluate a large pool of candidates and determine if they possess the minimum requirements for the position. It is a crucial step in identifying top talent and saving time and resources by eliminating unsuitable candidates early on in the process. Contents Why screening interviews are important in the hiring process What is a screening interview?

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The 20 Safest Countries For LGBTQ Travelers, Ranked In A New Report

Forbes Leadership

From the most LGBTQ friendly countries to the most homophobic countries, a new LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index ranks 203 places around the world.

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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.