Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2024

Economists have traditionally believed that new technology lifts all boats. But in the case of AI, some are asking: Will some employees get left behind?

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Peter Winick

MAY 30, 2024

Expanding Horizons: From Home Improvement to Thought Leadership A conversation with Matt Hullander about being a serial entrepreneur, changing perspectives, and writing a book. In this compelling episode of Thought Leadership Leverage, host Peter Winick dives deep with Matt Hullander, a versatile entrepreneur from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hullander, who has ventured into real estate development, e-commerce, private equity, recently authored the inspiring book “The Daily Climb: 10 Principl

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Real Estate Benefits Hospitality ROI 238

Thought Leaders LLC

MAY 27, 2024

Psychological strength is key for any leader. Courage to face the storm is a skill that develops with experience. Today’s guest post is b y Oleg Konovalov, author of The Fisherman’s Path to Leadership: 224 Lessons from the Wisdom of Nature. We are all perfect for today and we are comfortable in it. Yet, how strong we are for tomorrow’s challenges defines our leadership capacity.

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Lolly Daskal

MAY 31, 2024

Conflicts within a team can hinder productivity and create a negative work environment. However, conflicts are not necessarily a bad thing. According to recent studies, well-managed conflicts can lead to innovation, growth, and improved team dynamics. As an executive leadership coaching, I’ve seen firsthand how addressing conflicts can be a pivotal skill for leaders.

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Benefits Manager Leadership Development 113

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2024

Being happy and positive at work can be a win-win for employees and organizations. But what happens when your boss practices toxic positivity? No matter how bad or stressful the situation is or how difficult the circumstances, they convince themselves that simply acting happy or thinking positively will change the outcome — then spread this toxic positivity to their teams.

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Manager 143

Peter Winick

MAY 27, 2024

Digital Strategies for Community Building A conversation with Clemence Sop about finding a niche audience, creating communities, and building a body of thought leadership based on authenticity and trust. In this episode of Thought Leadership Leverage, host Bill Sherman sits down with Clemence Sop, the Head of Marketing Innovation at InterSystems, for an insightful discussion on marketing high-ticket items, leveraging digital platforms, and the power of thought leadership.

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Engineering Hospitality Marketing Government 230

Lolly Daskal

MAY 27, 2024

Providing feedback is a vital aspect of leadership and personal growth. As an executive leadership coach, I knowhow valuable constructive feedback can be in helping individuals and teams thrive. However, giving feedback effectively is an art that requires finesse and skill. Here are 12 common pitfalls to avoid when delivering important feedback. Recognizing and steering clear of these mistakes will enhance your ability to provide feedback that is constructive, well-received, and conducive to gro

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2024

Managers struggling to implement hybrid work policies confront three key challenges: scheduling, culture, and productivity. Research into companies allowing employees to be both remote and in-person suggest these obstacles can be overcome. In scheduling, shift to a focus not on how often workers are in, but which activities are better done in the office.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 29, 2024

A mind is a terrible thing to spew when it’s a bubbling cauldron of brilliance. Practice strategic silence rather than blinding with faux wisdom. Conformity disempowers. Strategic silence empowers. The more certain you feel the more likely strategic silence is protection. Practice strategic silence, not disengagement.

Leadership Development 114

Leadership Development 114

Alison Green

MAY 27, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Does being salaried just mean I work a ton of overtime with no extra pay? My position became salaried a while back and, while I understand the general idea of it (no overtime compensation), I’m wondering how working overtime hours should or does function in the real world sense.

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Compensation Compliance Administration Manager 108

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

MAY 29, 2024

Your team members are the heart of your organization, and selecting individuals who align with your vision, values, and goals is crucial for success. As an executive leadership coach, I know that building a high-performing team starts with recruiting the right people. In this blog post, we’ll explore a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the recruitment process effectively and ensure you bring the right talent on board.

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Recruitment Employee Engagement Leadership Development Manager 104

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2024

M&A deals have traditionally been transactional in nature, pursued for economies of scale and to consolidate costs. But that approach has more limited success in today’s volatile business landscape and won’t provide the transformational results that companies need today. To unlock the growth potential that transformational M&A can bring, leaders need a shift in thinking and behavior.

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Scaling 138

Leadership Freak

MAY 31, 2024

Don't spoil a great conversation with a lousy ending. A great ending to one-on-ones elevates energy. Ending set direction. 27 ways to turn toward confidence and action at the conclusion of one-on-ones.

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Energy Leadership Development 110

Alison Green

MAY 29, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve been at my company for eight years. I’m a senior manager and a very high performer. I’ve received multiple raises and promotions. I’m very calm and pragmatic and don’t easily get pulled into drama. It’s a small company and there are a lot of great things about it, including 98% of my coworkers who are all very experienced and professional.

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Benefits Manager 108

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

MAY 28, 2024

Building trust with your employees is not just a nice-to-have; it’s a must-have for a thriving organization. When trust is present, employees are more engaged, motivated, and loyal. As an executive leadership coach, I understand that trust is the foundation of strong leadership and effective teamwork. Here are five powerful strategies to help you foster trust with your team members.

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Employee Engagement Leadership Development Manager 102

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2024

Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts. Companies need to: 1) understand the asymmetrical capabilities of AI-enhanced phishing, 2) determine the company or division’s phishing threat severity level, and 3) confirm their cur

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Leadership Freak

MAY 28, 2024

Are you a leader brimming with ideas? Ideas are like rabbits. Multiplication leads to disease. The only thing worse than a leader with no ideas is one with too many. “Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” Paul Valéry What if you have too many ideas?

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Leadership Development 111

Thought Leaders LLC

MAY 30, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: When members of your team have conflict with each other, how do you handle it? I ignore it and hope they figure it out 6.40% I tell them to go resolve it 14.16% I offer to mediate if they’d like me to 49.32% I jump in and actively mediate 27.39% I reassign their work so they don’t have to interact 2.73% Mediating conflict.

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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

Lolly Daskal

MAY 30, 2024

Manipulators are skilled at presenting their ideas in a way that makes them seem appealing, even when those ideas may not be in the best interest of the organization. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve observed that even the most well-intentioned leaders can fall victim to manipulation when it comes to making decisions. Manipulators are skilled at presenting their ideas in a way that makes them seem appealing, even when those ideas may not be in the best interest of the organization.

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Diversity Implementation Benefits Employee Engagement 99

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2024

Remote work can be a blessing and curse for those just starting their careers. While it has clear benefits (improved work-life balance, geographic flexibility, and eliminating commutes), it’s not without drawbacks. There are unique challenges that come with starting your career remotely: isolation, distractions, and communication gaps. Fortunately, you can overcome these obstacle.

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Benefits Manager 134

Alison Green

MAY 28, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently joined a public agency as a director after working in the private sector previously. One of my employees, let’s call her Anna, works with various employees from the IT department in a working team on projects that are very much needed to advance our team’s work.

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Accounts Manager 104

Thought Leaders LLC

MAY 29, 2024

Improve your team’s culture by celebrating your team members’ successes. Be careful, though…one person’s reward is another person’s punishment. Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things.

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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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Association Now Leadership

MAY 31, 2024

A new report shows that nonprofits still struggle to broaden the range of people who participate in governance. Change begins with an open conversation about challenges. Four years after a very vocal and intense public conversation around diversity, how far have we come? A new report points to some positives, but also suggests that there’s plenty of work to be done.

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Diversity Nonprofit Government Inclusion 102

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2024

New research suggests that encouraging in-store pickup over home delivery could lead to more profitable sales, higher market shares, and sustainability-performance gains.

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Sales Sales Marketing 134

Alison Green

MAY 28, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should I accept my employee just isn’t well suited to a task? We are a small team of very silo-ed job types. Twice a year, for about a week each time, we have a meeting with lots of external stakeholders to review content for a textbook.

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Operations Manager 102

Wendy Hirsch

MAY 31, 2024

Key Points Life balance goes by many names — work-life balance, work-family balance, work-non-work balance. The right life balance is unique to each person. You have the opportunity but also a responsibility to define it for yourself. Four factors influence a sense of balance: involvement, competence, feelings, and alignment. Developing life balance requires continuous attention.

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Energy Organizational Change 98

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

Vantage Circle

MAY 29, 2024

Introduction In the competitive world of small business, finding the right talent quickly and efficiently is crucial. An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) can be a game-changer, simplifying and enhancing recruitment. However, with many options available, choosing the right ATS can be overwhelming. This blog provides a comparative overview of the top 10 ATS software for small businesses, helping you make an informed decision.

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Small Business Recruitment Workflows Software 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2024

How much value are your customers getting from your products? Net Promoter Scores are one tool to answer that question but the authors offer another: Customer Surplus Value. The idea, drawn from economics, is to ask customers how much money they’d need to be given to give up your product for a period of time. The more money it would take for them to accept, the more valuable the product.

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Marketing 135

Alison Green

MAY 30, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. My boss keeps leaving her kid with me I am the person who kept having to watch over their manager’s kid during my shift (from this post). I appreciate everyone’s input, and I wanted to thank you for your advice. When I said I was “in my 20s,” I meant very early 20s.

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Government Manager 100

Michael McKinney

MAY 30, 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. Herman Cain on focus: “The essence of focus is sacrifice. Leaders who cannot bring themselves to give up the unnecessary stuff for the sake of the necessary do not possess the critical leadership characteristic of focus.

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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.

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