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Good Judgment Is a Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI

Harvard Business Review

With generative AI, the technology game has changed — suddenly everyone is a potential programmer. But as we travel these technological leaps forward, there’s still a fundamental, longstanding capability every organization will need to realize AI’s true potential: judgment. That idea of judgment in the age of AI was a central tenet of the work of the authors’ late colleague, visionary friend, and longtime HBR contributor Alessandro Di Fiore.

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Leading with Confidence: Body Language Tips for Leaders

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, one of the most important things I teach my clients is the power of body language. Our nonverbal cues can communicate just as much, if not more, than the words we say. In fact, studies have shown that up to 93% of communication is nonverbal. As a leader, it is crucial to be aware of and in control of your body language, as it can greatly impact how others perceive you and respond to your leadership.

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How to B.U.I.L.D. T.R.U.S.T.

Leadership Freak

Average leaders get things done. Exceptional leaders build environments where others get things done. Average leaders fix. Exceptional leaders build. B.U.I.L.D.

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Starting Thought Leadership Early | Vaishali Dialani

Peter Winick

The benefits of starting thought leadership ASAP. An interview with Vaishali Dialani about her thought leadership journey and how starting earlier in her career has paid off. An investment in thought leadership – for yourself or your org – compounds over time. Starting earlier in your career will have a greater impact. So what’s stopping you from getting started?

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Is Your Background Screening Policy Built For 2025? What HR Leaders Need To Know Now

Speaker: Liz Charron

From evolving legislation to shifting workforce expectations, background screening is undergoing major transformation and HR is in the driver’s seat. With new compliance requirements and growing scrutiny, today’s HR leaders must build programs that are not only audit-ready, but outcome-driven. HR Management and Employee Relations Expert, Liz Charron, will delve into how HR teams can navigate the latest legal changes, connect screening to workforce ROI, and embed these practices into the very fab

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How FlexJobs Engages Customers With Proactive Messages

Help Scout Leadership

Learn how FlexJobs was able to double traffic and contacts during the pandemic as a result of their Beacon and Message setups in Help Scout.

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10 Habits You Should Give Up To Feel More Confident

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s important to inspire confidence and trust in your team. However, certain habits and behaviors can undermine our confidence and make us feel less capable and self-assured. Here are ten habits to give up in order to feel more confident as a leader: Comparing yourself to others: Comparison is often the thief of joy, and constantly comparing yourself to others can lead to feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.

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Finishing Strong: Gearing Up to End the Year

Michael Hyatt

Where Did I Win? Listing your wins helps you begin from an abundance mindset. And it’s easy to lose track of just how much you’ve accomplished. So make a list. Review your calendar, journal, and planner (especially your Weekly Previews). What did you make happen in the last three months? What has that made possible? […] The post Finishing Strong: Gearing Up to End the Year appeared first on Full Focus.

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Leading Thoughts for September 28, 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. Bill Taylor on humility and ambition: “Exceptional performance begins with extraordinary insights. But that doesn’t mean it’s your job to come up with those insights. In businesses built on new ideas, generating and evaluating ideas is everybody’s business.

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The Key to Unlocking Your Leadership Potential

Lolly Daskal

As a leadership coach, one of the most common questions I hear from my clients is “How can I unlock my full leadership potential?” Unlocking your leadership potential is not an overnight process and it requires a combination of self-awareness, skill-building, and consistent effort. Here are some ways that I have coached my clients in finding ways to unlock their leadership potential: Get to know yourself: The first step in unlocking your leadership potential is to get to know yoursel

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Choose to Hug New Ideas Before Killing Them

Leadership Freak

People learn to keep their mouths shut when new ideas face a firing squad. Exploring an idea is different from agreeing with it.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

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

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How to Have Better One-on-Ones

Ed Batista

One-on-one meetings with employees are seemingly among a leader's most straightforward tasks. Two colleagues have yet another conversation about work--what could be simpler? But a theme in my practice is that a more deliberate approach to one-on-ones can turn them from perfunctory exchanges into much higher sources of leverage. [1] If you're a leader who'd like to hold better one-on-ones, here are some questions to ask yourself and a set of proposals to consider: If you're not holding formal one

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Customer Story: Panorama Education

Help Scout Leadership

Using the Help Scout and Jira integration helps Panorama Education's Client Success, Product, and Engineering teams stay on the same page.

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9 Leadership Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Lolly Daskal

Being a leader can be a challenging role, as there are many obstacles that leaders must overcome in order to be successful. Whether you are a new leader or an experienced one, there are challenges and solutions can help you become a more effective leader. Here are nine leadership challenges that most leaders will face and how to overcome them. Lack of direction: As a leader, not having a clear vision or direction for your team can make it difficult to achieve goals and can lead to a lack of moti

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How to Lead Successfully in a Global Environment

Leadership Freak

It’s impossible to over-communicate when teams are far away from each other. There's a new book giveaway on this post.

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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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It’s Election Season. Here Comes the Morally Charged Language.

Kellogg Insight

In the U.S., presidential candidates across the political spectrum lean on value-laden rhetoric—but emphasize different values.

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Customer Story: Influitive

Help Scout Leadership

“Having the ability to know exactly how we're performing and having it laid out in a straightforward, visual way makes things really simple for us.

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What Effective Leaders Do And Don’t Care About

Lolly Daskal

Leadership is a vital aspect of any successful organization, and effective leaders possess a unique set of traits and characteristics that set them apart. One way to gain insight into the actions and mindset of effective leaders is to examine the things they do and don’t care about. Here are some things leaders DO care about which makes them great leaders: Do care about the well beings of people: Effective leaders care about the well-being of their team members, both in terms of their prof

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How to Discern the Hidden Meaning Behind Suggestions

Leadership Freak

Complainers have suggestions for others. 'We should' means 'you should' Discern the meaning of pronouns.

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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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HR Transformation: A 2023 Comprehensive Guide

AIHR

In a world with new cost pressures, hybrid work models, and ever-evolving employee expectations, HR transformation is more urgent now than ever. In response to the demand for HR to play a more strategic role, transformation can elevate HR from an administrative and task-oriented function to a strategic business partner that aligns talent management and workforce development with the company’s goals.

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Customer Story: GrabCad

Help Scout Leadership

See how GrabCad uses Help Scout to create a memorable customer experience and build long-term relationships with nearly 4 million designers, engineers, and manufacturers.

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8 Ineffective Management Styles to Root Out of Your Organization

15Five

Strategic HR leaders understand how influential managers are in a business. They can make or break a team’s ability to perform and be a driver—or killer—of employee engagement. So, it’s no surprise that 60% of you said manager effectiveness was your top priority in 2023. We spend a lot of time studying and discussing why manager effectiveness is important.

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We Asked, You Answered: New Skills for Today’s Leaders

Association Now Leadership

To be more effective, association leaders constantly need to evolve and develop new skills—whether that’s getting comfortable with technology or improving their soft skills. Here’s a look at what your colleagues want to get better at. Knowing that association pros are always looking at how they can become better leaders and professionals, we asked our readers what new skill they’re looking currently to acquire or improve.

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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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Free Employee Task List Template and Actionable Guide for 2024

AIHR

As an HR professional, you can add value to the performance management cycle in your organization by creating and implementing employee task lists. This powerful management tool supports planning, monitoring, reviewing, and refining employee performance. Employee task templates help managers and employees create employee task lists, and you can be instrumental in supporting this process.

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Customer Story: Tattly

Help Scout Leadership

Tattly insists on delighting customers and uses Help Scout to make providing memorable support as easy and fun as it should be.

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How robust are your organization’s crisis response contingency plans?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How robust are your organization’s crisis response contingency plans? Extremely: we’re ready for anything and can get operations back online quickly 13.16% Very: we’re prepared for most crises and have adequate contingency plans 47.37% Somewhat: we’re ready for common crises but would struggle with others 28.95% Not very: if we face a crisis, we’ll be challenged to get through it 7.89% Not at all: if a crisis hits, we’re doomed 2.63

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Tips for Fixing Broken HR Systems and Building Momentum with Small Wins

15Five

What can HR leaders do to drive real organizational change when working within a broken system? What do you do when you see a problem and have ideas about how to fix it, but your executive team isn’t giving you the necessary support or resources? These are the questions Adam Weber, host of the HR Superstars podcast , discussed on a recent episode with guest Kara Kirby , CEO of Insights Leadership Group and host of the Pop!

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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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8 Steps To Design an Employee Referral Program (With Free Sample)

AIHR

As a Human Resources professional, you’re probably already aware of the benefits that come with utilizing an employee referral program. Not only does it save time and money by streamlining recruitment efforts, but when done right, it can also drastically improve the quality of your new hires. According to LinkedIn Talent Solutions , it takes, on average, 29 days to hire a candidate referred by an employee.

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Inside Support: Q&A with Support Leader Brittany Ferguson

Help Scout Leadership

Learn from folks who are helping customers, building teams, and growing careers in ecommerce customer service.

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Podcast: Why Canada Goose Soared and Shinola Sputtered

Kellogg Insight

Luxury is dominated by older brands. So what happens when newer entrants try to break through? In the second of two bonus episodes, we show what can go right—and wrong.

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How To Be A More Human Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“To be most effective in today’s environment, leaders must be human leaders. Human leaders must be able to lead not only with their heads but also with their hearts and souls,” says veteran executive coach Hortense le Gentil , author of the new book, The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in 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.