Peter Winick
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Why Resilience Matters and How Leaders Can Cultivate It at Every Level Dr. Deborah Gilboa shares her journey from theater to medicine to resilience expert, uncovering how resilience can be learned and developed. She offers actionable insights for leaders on managing change effectively, building resilient teams, and understanding the natural resistance to change within organizations.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
A series of studies found that virtual meetings offer workers valuable glimpses into each other’s nonwork lives — which boost feelings of trust and authenticity.
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Alison Green
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I wonder if you have any tips/tricks on how to keep focused on work when there is a major event going on? I recall trying to work for several weeks after the 2020 election and January 6 and know my work was not efficient or good quality during that time. I’m so anxious about the election results that I know I will be following all day and probably many more days after since it’s unlikely we’l
Lolly Daskal
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
When it comes to leadership, the wide variety of styles and approaches can make it difficult to identify who truly stands out. Great leaders, however, leave a lasting impression, influencing those they lead and the organizations they serve in profound ways. But how can you recognize a truly exceptional leader? What sets them apart from the rest? As an executive leadership coach with years of experience, I’ve dedicated my career to helping leaders reach their full potential.
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
Peter Winick
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: When you, as a thought leader, as an expert, as an author, as an advisor, are talking to folks that could potentially become clients, that could use your services, how are you positioning yourselves?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal approach to remedy an employee’s performance gaps, including failures to meet specific job goals or behavior-related concerns. The plan outlines the existing issues and defines what new outputs and behaviors are needed by when. But is a PIP the right choice for your situation? Will it work? Is it worth the effort?
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Lolly Daskal
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Perfectionism in leadership can be a powerful force, driving leaders to set high standards and achieve exceptional results. However, this same drive can also lead to overwhelming stress and a constant sense of inadequacy, ultimately hindering both personal and professional success. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen how perfectionism can become a double-edged sword, pushing leaders to excel while also creating significant obstacles.
Agile42
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
When Ninja and I were contemplating different perspectives on coaching, I immediately thought about comparing it to other jobs I’ve had before becoming an Agile Coach. As a graduate of hotel management, I began to consider the correlations and differences between coaching and cooking. I must share an unpleasant truth with you from the start. Coaching agile teams is even more challenging than making pancakes!
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
For many, heading straight to college and then into the working world is seen as the best way forward. But what if a break during this time — in particular, a gap year before college — can help reduce stress and burnout, improve your academics and leadership down the road, and help you find your true purpose? Research and interviews with people who have taken gap years demonstrate its promise, and practical advice about the logistics of taking a gap year can help you decide if it’s the right pat
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: The clinic I work for filled a medical receptionist position. The new hire had worked as a receptionist for other offices for over 18 years. Sure, they had to learn the ropes of a new EHR (electronic health record) program, but they should already know enough to not be so overwhelmed that they had to call in, right?
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.
Lolly Daskal
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Great leaders recognize that their most valuable asset is their people, especially those who are exceptionally smart and talented. However, managing highly intelligent individuals comes with its own set of challenges. These individuals often have strong opinions, high expectations, and a desire for autonomy. To truly harness their potential and drive organizational success, leaders must employ innovative and thoughtful strategies.
BetterUp
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Do you feel stuck in a rut? It can feel frustrating to be stuck in the same place and feel like nothing is changing. When you’re languishing , it feels like you’re not moving forward toward your goals. One of the ways to break this rut is to take action. Making a conscious decision to better yourself can be empowering and motivating.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Many leaders today are stretched beyond capacity, and in that state, feelings of resentment can readily emerge and take hold. Whether you’re already feeling resentful or just starting to feel the tinges of this emotion, try these five strategies to safeguard your and your team’s well-being and performance: pinpoint the source, step outside yourself, focus on solutions, communicate constructively, and let go.
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 3, 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. How can I ask out our general manager? How do I get ahold of someone who works in the offices where I work to ask them out? Her position is GM. I’m intending to ask her if she’d like to go for a coffee or walk on the beach one day after work just to get to know each other.
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.
Kotter Inc.
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The post How government leaders can maintain momentum amidst changing administrations appeared first on Kotter International Inc.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
You aren’t a leader when you do it yourself. Humble leaders expand their leadership by including people. Excluding competent people limits opportunities. Know-it-alls think they’re always right. Standing aloof gives permission to close your heart, ignore people, and make snap decisions. Learn how humble leaders overcome limiters.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows.
AIHR
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Organizational knowledge refers to all the knowledge within an organization that provides business value and continuity, regardless of industry or company size. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of companies providing remote workforces with easy, timely access to relevant job- and organization-related information. This remains important post-pandemic and requires a solid organizational knowledge management system.
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.
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am writing about a new coworker who has no concept of boundaries. “Hannah” is in her mid-40’s and is pretty advanced in her career (in a technical position that starts at $100K a year). She sees herself as a “grandma figure” to the Gen Z coworkers in our small office.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Leadership is all fluff when you neglect what matters. Busyness causes you to miss what matters today. This post shares 10 ways you can do what matters today. Pick one action to move your leadership in a positive direction.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
When you’re planning for a vacation, it is essential to hand over work efficiently. Begin by notifying colleagues and clients of your absence well in advance, ideally four to six weeks ahead. It is good practice to find a colleague to act as your backup at least a month in advance. Then, create a detailed handover document, listing current project status, pending tasks, and instructions for what they’d need to take care of while you’re away.
AIHR
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The one thing that ‘bare minimum Mondays’, ‘new-collar jobs’, and ‘Quittok’ have in common is that they are all HR buzzwords. While buzzwords tend to have an expiration date, it is good to know what they refer to since they often express a genuine, underlying workplace trend. This article explores 27 HR buzzwords, providing you with a handy resource to refer to when you encounter a fancy-looking word or phrase in the HR field.
Speaker: Brian Richardson
With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too
Kotter Inc.
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
There is general consensus that smart factory tools will transform the way that products are made within five years. What’s less clear is how and where to deploy them.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Inexperience experiments. Congealed experience hinders progress. Arrogance assumes it will win because it won in the past. Disaster awaits when business-as-usual meets new challenges. Experience is destructive when it resists change.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
A study of 1,600 U.S. workers examined their preference for narrative or numerical feedback — or a combination of the two.
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 5, 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. Manager is always scratching his chest inside his shirt I am a recent transfer to my current office, 10 years with my company, and I have an issue with a manager. “Mark” wears his shirt with the top three buttons undone and he is rarely seen without his hand inside the shirt, scratching his chest.
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.
Michael McKinney
NOVEMBER 7, 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. Warren Bennis on consensus decision-making: “Emphasis on harmony does not serve organizations particularly well. Unanimity leads rather quickly to stagnation, which, in turn, invites change by nonevolutionary means.
BetterUp
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Discover how life planning can help you reach your goals. Learn what a life plan is and how to create a successful one with our life planning template.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Look for the candidates whose skills and energy encourage everyone around them to perform better.
Alison Green
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently took on my first intern. I let them know from the get-go that I didn’t know if it could evolve into permanent work given the current work pipeline. They are ambitious, smart, and eager to learn, and I have done my best to give them “real world” learning experiences so they make their resume look great.
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.
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