Sat.May 20, 2023 - Fri.May 26, 2023

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10 Powerful Things Great Leaders Should Say Every Day

Lolly Daskal

Great leaders understand the power of words. They use their words to inspire, motivate, and guide their team. They also know that the words they choose can have a significant impact on their team’s performance and morale. Here are 10 powerful things that great leaders should say every day: “Thank you.” Recognition and appreciation are crucial for building strong teams.

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Are you Ready for the Next Senior Living Crisis | Part 3

Chief Outsiders

Make Local Digital Marketing Your Secret Advantage By: Beth VanStory and Jennifer Apy If you’ve been with us throughout this blog series , by now you have a greater understanding of the broader market forces that challenge your senior living business and some of the measures you can take to be one step ahead of the competition.

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Leading Thoughts for May 25, 2023

Michael McKinney

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. Schoolteacher Alice Moore Hubbard , on how to teach: “Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

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Why Change Capability Is The Most Important Missing Competency For Today’s Leaders

John Kotter

With increasing uncertainty, the most under appreciated, yet critical, leadership competency in today's world is adaptability.

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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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7 Common Leadership Mistakes That Derail Your Team’s Success

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s important to recognize that your actions and decisions have a ripple effect on your team. If you’re making mistakes, it’s likely that your team will struggle as well. There are common leadership mistakes that can derail your team’s success. By understanding the mistakes and learning from them, you can set your team up for success.

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Quiet Quitting – 5 Questions that Confront Quiet Quitting

Leadership Freak

Quiet quitting is a disaster. I’m not thinking about organizations. It’s a disaster for everyone. Doing the minimum at work is circling a black hole. Quiet quitting is disengagement. Disengagement is boring.

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Organizational Thought Leadership for Healthcare | Jean Accius, Traci Conley, Craig Joseph, and Jerome Pagani

Peter Winick

Influence, Communication, and Comedy for Healthcare Professionals. A compilation of advice for thought leaders in the Healthcare industry. Healthcare is a serious topic, and it needs great thought leadership to disseminate information swiftly and clearly to those that need it most. In today’s episode, we revisit our conversations with three guests who focus on thought leadership for healthcare organizations.

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How The Best Leaders Handle Team Conflict Successfully

Lolly Daskal

Conflict is inevitable in any team. It’s how leaders handle it that can make the difference between a successful resolution or a damaging escalation. The best leaders know how to navigate team conflict successfully and emerge stronger as a result. Here are seven key strategies they use to handle conflict: Staying neutral: As a leader, it’s important to maintain objectivity and not take sides in a conflict.

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Develop a Leader’s Perspective: Master the Ripple Effect

Leadership Freak

One of the biggest challenges of leadership is lack of imagination. A leader’s perspective includes imagination. All the important things you do begin with imagination. Everything in the world began with imagination.

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How To Craft A LinkedIn Profile That Recruiters Love, According To 100 Hiring Professionals

Forbes Leadership

Tips for optimizing each section of your LinkedIn Profile to attract recruiters and stand out as a candidate, according to 100 hiring experts.

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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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12 Tips to Achieve and Maintain a Good Work-Life Balance

BetterUp

Feeling like all you do is work? You’re not alone. Several statistics show that more than 60 percent of U.S. employees feel like their work-life balance is out of whack. But how do you balance your work-life with so much work happening at home? And how do you balance your workload to be more efficient? Is it more than just hitting a weekly yoga class ?

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8 Must-Have Leadership Traits For Current And Future Leaders

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, my clients often ask me what skills are necessary for effective leadership today and in the future. In my experience, there are several core competencies. These traits are crucial for current and future leaders to possess. By developing these skills, leaders can build the confidence and assertiveness. They will be needed to thrive in a constantly changing organizational environment.

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The Ultimate Pursuit of Leadership

Leadership Freak

It’s normal to complain; it’s leadership to make something better. The consistent pursuit of improvement yields unfathomable advantage. Improvement is the ultimate pursuit of leadership.

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AT&T’s Dream In Black Program Empowers HBCU Athletes Off The Court

Forbes Leadership

Select HBCU students had the opportunity to meet with industry leaders during the NCAA Men's Final Four and HBCU All-Star Game Weekend in Houston thanks to AT&T.

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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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What’s at Stake in the Debt-Ceiling Standoff?

Kellogg Insight

Defaulting would be an unmitigated disaster, quickly felt by ordinary Americans.

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5 Communication Strategies That Will Transform Your Leadership

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, your communication skills can make or break the success of your team and organization. Great leaders know that effective communication is key to building trust, aligning efforts towards common goals, and inspiring positive change. On the other hand, poor communication can lead to misunderstandings, damaged relationships, and barriers to progress.

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7 Questions to Create Brag Time

Leadership Freak

Give team members brag time in one-on-one meetings. Bad stuff: Bad overshadows good. You’re rightly concerned about making things better and solving problems. But constant concerns suck the life out of people.

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Obsessed With Going To An Elite College? Read “The Golden Ticket” First

Forbes Leadership

Irena Smith's memoir, "The Golden Ticket" is a smart, personal, bracingly honest account of the college admissions process and the larger struggle for successful lives.

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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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Organizational Analysis 101: Your Comprehensive Guide for 2023

AIHR

Businesses looking for a competitive edge should consider what an organizational analysis has to offer. The awareness gained from taking an in-depth look into the organization can disclose what needs to be done to provide a competitive advantage through effective use of resources and management of costs. This article explores what organizational analysis is all about.

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What People Want Out of Leaders Now

Association Now Leadership

New research suggests that employees want leaders to get back to matters of trust and stability. But don’t buy the idea that empathy is “out.” Despite some relatively optimistic data points in the past year or so—low unemployment, declining Covid numbers—executives are fielding a lot of stress in their workplace lately. Inflation and supply-chain issues aren’t entirely resolved; recession concerns still loom; hosts of industries are concerned that AI will termite into their business model, if it

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Smart Help – 7 Questions to Ask Before Helping

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders help people, but helping has disadvantages you might not see. Don’t rush to help. Strength rises to challenges. Don’t get in the way. Ease bores talented people.

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Why Are Minorities Leaving Tech? 5 Ways Tech Companies Can Benefit From New BIPOC Founders

Forbes Leadership

The pandemic and economic downturn generated an increase in entrepreneurship, especially for the BIPOC community.

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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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How to Reinforce a Culture of Accountability

Thought Leaders LLC

Your culture is an important asset, and you need to curate it every single day. Look for opportunities to reinforce the behaviors you want to see. It’s not enough to just build a culture of accountability. You have to strengthen it and reinforce it every single day. This is about the small behaviors adding up to that broader culture. The organization is going to behave in a manner based on what it sees punished or rewarded.

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The Ultimate Guide to Garden Leave (Plus When To Use It) 

AIHR

Garden leave is gaining traction in the United States. Employers are increasingly concerned about protecting their confidential information, trade secrets, and customer relationships from departing employees. Technological advances make it easier for people to take valuable information with them when they leave a job, which could damage their former employer’s business.

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6 Best Practices for Modern Employee Performance Management 

15Five

Is your performance management program actually moving the needle on employee performance? Research shows that many organizations (more than half by some estimates) are falling short. In a McKinsey & Company survey, 54% of respondents said performance management at their organization had not had a positive effect on performance. (If not to improve employee performance, what exactly is the point of “managing” it?

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University Of Kentucky Receives Record $100 Million Gift

Forbes Leadership

The University of Kentucky has received the largest gift in its history - $100 million from the late Bill Gatton, for its College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

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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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Work Less and Relate More 

Thought Leaders LLC

If each of us took 10 percent of the time we devote to work and shifted it to relationship building, we’d reap impressive financial and emotional rewards. Today’s guest post is by Larry Thornton, author of Why Not Win? A Reflection on a 50-year Journey from the Segregated South to America’s Boardrooms — And What it Teaches Us All (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Report: Organizational DEI Efforts Flagging Worldwide

Association Now Workplace

Fewer organizations are pursuing DEI efforts since 2020, a recent DDI report found, but many have learned to ask more of their initiatives. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices flagged between 2020 and 2022, according to a new report, raising questions about companies’ commitment to workplace equity. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report 2023 , released last month by DDI, a leadership consulting firm, found that the number of global companies without a DEI program increased 33

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The 4-Day Workweek: How To Do More With Less

Nir Eyal

What would it look like if the world moved toward a four-day workweek? Time magazine says 2023 could be the year of the four-day workweek. But if the world is going to attempt this paradigm shift, we have to do our best to eliminate the obstacles. Companies and employees can use the methodology described in my book, Indistractable, to navigate this sea change.

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Why White-Collar Workers Are Losing Out In The Job Market

Forbes Leadership

White-collar, college-educated professionals are having a harder time finding a new job and are facing greater job insecurity than blue-collar workers.

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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.