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Managers Are Burned Out. Here’s How to Help Them Recharge.

Harvard Business Review

As a leader of leaders, you “create the weather” for your team. It’s your job to not only support your burned-out leaders, but also to keep burnout at bay going forward. In this article, the author offers six strategies to help recharge the burned-out managers on your team: 1) Recognize and acknowledge their burnout; 2) Create opportunities for personal connection both in person and virtually; 3) Re-assess, re-prioritize, and re-distribute their work; 4) Revise team agreements about how you all

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Skip Level Meetings: Everything you need to know about Skip Level 1 on 1s

Get Lighthouse

How are my managers really doing? What's really happening in my organization? What do my people really think? Am I missing anything important? Whether you're a veteran leader or brand new to having a real hierarchy below you, these kinds of questions are likely to be on your mind often. The more removed from the day-to-day work you are, the harder it is to have a feel for what's happening and how people are really doing.

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Connecting Thought Leadership to Sales and Lead Generation | Dani Buckley

Peter Winick

How thought leadership can elevate sales teams and increase lead gen. An interview with Dani Buckley about creating thought leadership content that salespeople can use. Thought leadership is a great source for lead generation. So how do you create content that a sales team can easily access and assess? And how can you measure the success of it? To discuss these topics I’ve invited Dani Buckley the Vice President and General Manager of LeadG2 to join me.

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Advance Reading for #ASAE23

Association Now Leadership

Association pros are gearing up to head to Atlanta for ASAE’s 2023 Annual Meeting & Exposition this weekend. Get a head start on the learning—or learn from wherever you are—with our reading list. Whether you’re heading to Atlanta this weekend or catching up on your learning at home, we’ve got your must-reads right here. In advance of the 2023 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition, which kicks off Saturday, several expert content leaders shared their wisdom in articles and interviews.

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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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AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI

Harvard Business Review

The first step business leaders must take is to experiment, create sandboxes, run internal bootcamps, and develop AI use cases not just for technology workers, but for all employees.

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How to Lead with Socratic Questions

Scott Elbin

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. It’s about asking the kinds of questions that help leaders come up with their own answers and insights. As an executive leadership coach, I often see the same dynamic playing out with my clients.

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The Art of Mental Toughness: How Extraordinary Individuals Thrive in the Face of Adversity

Thought Leaders LLC

Explore the transformative journey towards enduring discomfort and uncertainty. Discover the techniques extraordinary individuals use to develop mental resilience. Embrace voluntary hardship and self-accountability to unlock your hidden potential for success. Today’s guest post is by Polina Marinova Pompliano, author of HIDDEN GENIUS: The Secret Ways Of Thinking That Power The World’s Most Successful People (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Mastering the Art of the Request

Harvard Business Review

Even the most effective leaders recognize how much is outside of their control, but one thing we all have agency over is how we communicate with others. Clearly articulated requests, the kinds that elicit real responses, don’t come naturally to most of us. As it turns out, there’s an art to the request — whether it’s directed at an employee who’s producing subpar deliverables or a colleague from a different department who hasn’t been pulling their weight on a collaborative project.

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Curiosity: 5 Powerful Questions You Can Ask Today

Leadership Freak

The opposite of curiosity is apathy. You don’t need to be smart to be curious, but asking questions makes you smart. Here are 5 powerful questions you can ask today.

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Develop Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With 6 Practical Examples

AIHR

Recently, 69% of companies reported talent shortages (a 15-year high), and it’s estimated that 97 million jobs will be created within the next three years, so having a solid talent acquisition strategy is more important than ever. Attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent is a challenging task that requires time, strategy, and money. As your organization evolves, it will be necessary to reassess your talent needs – your talent acquisition strategies must align with your company vision a

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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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Branding & Growth - Why They are Inseparable

Chief Outsiders

Your company’s brand equals your market position and value proposition. It’s your entire strategy in a single package that is as important to your customers as it is to your long-term success.

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How a Federal Ban on Ransomware Payments Could Help CISOs

Harvard Business Review

The White House is considering a ban on ransomware payments, which could change the chief information and security officer (CISO) job. The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens. This is a significant shift: after Uber’s former chief security officer was convicted for his role in covering up a 2016 cyberattack, CISOs had more reason to worry of the personal liability t

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15 Employee Engagement Quotes to Inspire You

15Five

When’s the last time you felt inspired by something you were working on? This could be at work, or for a personal goal or project. Whatever you were working on, you probably felt curious and motivated. You didn’t just want to get this thing done — you wanted to accomplish it in the best possible way. That feeling is engagement. And when employees feel engaged in the workplace, something magic happens.

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How to Develop a Staffing Planning (With Staffing Plan Example)  

AIHR

In an ever-evolving business landscape, staffing planning is integral for ensuring that an organization has the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles, at the right time. As an HR professional, you can drive this strategic process by analyzing current staffing resources, predicting future needs, identifying gaps, formulating strategies to fill these gaps, and creating a staffing plan that the organization can follow.

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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 Create a Leadership Development Plan (+Template)

Niagara Institute

The beloved Brazilian soccer icon, Pelé, once said, “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you do or are learning to do.” This is especially true for those in leadership. While some people are naturally gifted leaders, the vast majority of those in leadership have to learn how to be good managers by honing their skills, perfecting new techniques, and building their confidence over time.

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Don’t Let Your Company’s Culture Stifle Leadership Development

Harvard Business Review

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. Leaders may be asked to think long term in a culture that fixates on immediate results, or they may be taught to collaborate across organizational boundaries when they’re rewarded for work within their own group.

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4 Ways to Have Lousy One-On-Ones

Leadership Freak

When one-on-ones are tedious, you’re doing them wrong. If they’re draining to you, imagine how everyone else feels. Stop sucking the life out of people. Zombies aren't productive.

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A Breakdown of LinkedIn’s AI Assisted Growth Loop

Brian Balfour

In March, LinkedIn launched an AI assisted growth loop. Fareed Mosavat and I recorded a convo where we broke it down step by step. We were shocked when we looked up the stats. From March to June it went from generating 0 to 1M uniques per month according to Ahrefs and is on one of the steepest growth curves we’ve ever seen for a content loop. ?️ Note: Fareed and I are thinking about turning this type of convo into a podcast.

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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.

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How clearly is your organization’s culture articulated and disseminated through the company?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How clearly is your organization’s culture articulated and disseminated through the company? Very: we have clear statements of our culture and everyone knows and understands it 38.59% Somewhat: people generally know what our culture is but there is some lack of clarity 34.65% Not very: we have conflicting views of culture and no one can really articulate it 20.47% Not at all: what’s culture?

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How to Make a Pivot in the Latter Half of Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Changing careers as an older worker can be daunting, especially amid today’s relentless uncertainty. But you already have what you need to set yourself apart as a candidate — you just need to do a little extra preparation to ensure that hiring managers and interviewers can see how your unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives will move their team and organization forward.

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Hidden Gems: Using Data Analytics to Inform Organization Design Choices

AlignOrg

A good gardener knows the health of the garden is influenced by what’s happening below ground. Beneath the roses and daisies is a hidden ecosystem of roots, airways, and irrigation systems that allow plants to flourish. A novice gardener might focus on the health of flowers and leaves, but a pro understands that the blooms will never reach their full potential if the world below the surface goes unchecked.

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How And When To Ask Questions

Eric Jacobson

"Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things, But few of us know how to question in a methodical way," explains Frank Sesno , Emmy-award-winning journalist, and author of the book, Ask More. Sesno's book teaches readers how the power of questions: Opens doors Uncovers Solutions Sparks Change More specifically, he reveals: The power and payoff of targeted diagnostic questions.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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.

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3 Ways to be Liked and Respected

Leadership Freak

There's more to results than being liked and respected. But it's easier to work hard for someone you like and respect.

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A More Ethical Approach to Employing Contractors

Harvard Business Review

Beyond doing the right thing, responsible contracting attracts and cultivates talent, lifts employee morale, generates returns, and bolsters your brand.

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How to Start Addressing Accessibility Gaps

Association Now Leadership

Accommodating everybody who wants to access your association—staff, members, attendees, and more—involves more than following regulations. It means being open to conversations about who feels excluded, and why. Associations spend a lot of time thinking about standards. Technical and medical organizations work to establish safe and sensible guidelines for their professions.

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How 25 Awesome Twentysomethings Nailed It

Eric Jacobson

Prepare to be enlightened, fascinated and inspired by the stories of some of history’s iconic men and women that show where they were at near the age of 25. And how they overcame obstacles, defied their critics and forged ahead to attain success. Author Robert L. Dilenschneider tells these stories of 25 men and women from around the globe who shaped the world in his new book, Nailing It.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

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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How Data Tracking Is Changing—and What That Means for You

Kellogg Insight

Tech companies are phasing out cookies. Will consumers finally see meaningful privacy protections?

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What Is “Charisma,” Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

In our leader-focused society, how often do we consider the role of followers?

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Live by Aspirations: Stop Using Genetic Wiring as an Excuse

Leadership Freak

Personality assessments are fun because we are fascinated with ourselves. Your genetic wiring is a platform, not an excuse for self-affirming apathy or incompetence. Live by aspirations not limitations.

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What Is Human Resources?

AIHR

What is Human Resources? Human Resources is both a function and a department within an organization. As a function, HR covers the processes, practices, and strategies to attract, develop, and retain employees who contribute to the company’s overall success. As a department, it is responsible for managing HR activities from recruitment and onboarding, compensation and benefits, learning and development, performance management, and employee relations to separation or retirement.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

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.