Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using a structured approach when communicating can help you prioritize what you need to convey. In this article, the author introduces his “What, So What, Now What” framework. Much like the Swiss Army knife, known for its versatility and reliability, this structure is flexible and can be used in many different communication situations. The structure is comprised of three simple questions: 1) What: Describe and define the facts, situation, product, position, etc. 2) So What: Discuss the implicati

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Manager 145

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2024

The path to your best self requires self-awareness. Self-awareness hinges on self-reflection. Self-reflection enables self-discovery. Here's how.

Leadership Development 132

Leadership Development 132

Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 4, 2024

Building trust with your boss is essential for career growth and success. When your boss trusts you, it can lead to increased responsibilities, opportunities for advancement, and a more fulfilling work environment. Here are ten strategies to gain your boss’s trust and become an indispensable team member. 1. Deliver Consistent Results: To gain your boss’s trust, consistently deliver high-quality work.

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Assets Accounts Manager Leadership Development 125

AIHR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Turnover and attrition are two basic HR metrics that companies should monitor on a regular basis. The data helps HR and management understand how long employees typically stay with an organization, and provides insight into what may or may not drive retention. Companies are more likely to retain employees when they feel engaged, productive, and understand how their job plays a role in the company’s overall success.

Retention 118

Retention Metrics Compensation Reorganization 118

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.

Diversity

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

Each year, thousands of executives retire from long and successful corporate careers. But few are prepared for the journey they are about to embark on. Based on conversations with dozens of highly respected former chief executives, the authors identified seven common mistakes, ranging from not preparing far enough in advance to thinking you can rely on your existing professional network to not realizing that behaviors that worked for you as an executive can work against you in retirement.

Manager 145

Manager 145

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Why will no man confess his faults? Because he is still in their grasp.” Seneca Smart leaders love correction. When you hate correction, you love grappling with the same faults over and over and over.

Leadership Development 131

Leadership Development 131

Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 3, 2024

Unlock the path from corporate executive to a thriving portfolio career, showcasing intentional choices and strategic career moves for lasting success. Today’s guest post is b y Merideth Mehlberg, author of YOUR FINEST WORK: Career Fulfillment In A Complicated World (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Renata, Vice President of Operations for a large fintech company, arrived for coaching ready to leave her role, but fearful of the risks such a shift would include.

Operations 111

Operations 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.

Performance Review 145

Performance Review Human Resources Performance Management Retention 145

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 4, 2024

Maybe you hate writing, or you don’t have time. But journaling is centering in a world gone mad. Record your thoughts to understand yourself.

Leadership Development 124

Leadership Development 124

Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the world of work evolves, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a key component in modern business. AI holds the potential to revolutionize our work, transforming leadership roles and responsibilities. This is how AI will reshape the future of work and alter leadership dynamics forever: The Intersection of AI and Leadership Strategies: Leaders must think long-term, integrating AI into their strategic plans for market forecasting and supply chain optimization.

Strategic Planning 119

Strategic Planning Talent Development Retention Marketing 119

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

AIHR

JANUARY 1, 2024

An exit survey can provide you with valuable insight into how employees truly feel at work in your organization. With the cost of losing an employee often between 1.5-2.0 times an employee’s annual salary, understanding why people leave your company and taking action to prevent this is crucial when it comes to meeting organizational goals and protecting your employer brand.

Retention 111

Retention Compensation Benefits Onboarding 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

In June 2023, the Supreme Court effectively ended race-based affirmative action in higher education in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) case. On the heels of that decision, newly empowered activists have brought a barrage of challenges against workplace DEI efforts. When it comes to DEI today, the authors predict that neither side will “win.” Rather, as the law inevitably evolves in a more conservative direction, the new legal standards will be absorbed into the field of DEI, transforming

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Education Human Resources Recruitment Diversity 145

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2024

Journaling reminds you to participate in life. Enhance your journaling journey with simple sentence starters. Two or three sentences is a beginning.

Leadership Development 122

Leadership Development 122

Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 1, 2024

Be a visionary: The most effective leaders have a clear vision of what they want to achieve and are able to inspire others to work towards that vision. Be a strategic thinker: Business needs good strategic thinkers and the most effective leaders are able to think strategically and plan for the long-term. Be a good planner: The best leaders are able to plan effectively, and set clear and achievable goals.

Manager 111

Manager Employee Engagement Leadership Development 111

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.

Diversity

Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How are intellectual property and trademark rights viewed in your organization? They’re sacred and should never be violated 70.74% One should be careful not to violate them but … sometimes it happens 22.57% It’s not a big deal if you’re not overly obvious about violating them 4.87% Who cares? Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

You may be an expert at running your business unit or leading your team. But do you know how to advance your agenda across an organization, particularly if you have an idea that will impact its strategic direction? This article offers four key domains you can focus on to ensure you’ve prepared an agenda-setting mission: adopting an enterprise perspective, leveraging your strategic mindset, cultivating stakeholder awareness, and considering your personal motives and risks.

Manager 145

Manager 145

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 1, 2024

A big goal makes me feel powerful when it's 364 days away. A goal for today slaps me to attention. A year-long goal is a compass. Awareness of brevity sets the rudder.

Leadership Development 114

Leadership Development 114

Kellogg Insight

JANUARY 1, 2024

Running even a small number of experiments can reveal a lot, a new study finds.

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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.

Retention

Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Understanding the strategic environment of a negotiation will help you achieve your desired outcome. The first step in any negotiating process is defining and understanding the context you’re operating in. You have to understand the strategic environment of the negotiation in order to be successful. There are several elements to defining this context.

Operations 108

Operations 108

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trusted actors simulate how adversaries would attack any given system. The term was popularized during the Cold War when the U.S. Defense Department tasked “red teams” with acting as the Soviet adversary, while blue teams were tasked with acting as the United States or its allies.

Manager 145

Manager Risk Management 145

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 5, 2024

Agile rewards and recognition are the ultimate change-makers in workplace incentives—they are dynamic influencers of acknowledgment. Unlike the outdated routine rewards, agile recognition instantly lets managers celebrate small wins. Did You Know? Over 91% of HR professionals believe that recognition and reward make employees more likely to stay.

Implementation 104

Implementation Employee Engagement Performance Management Operations 104

Kellogg Insight

JANUARY 2, 2024

“The basic amenities people want are pretty universal, but every community has its own priorities and ideals.

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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

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are ten questions (or bundles of questions) you should ask yourself to ensure you are thinking and acting like a superboss. These are from Sydney Finkelstein 's well-worth-reading book, Superbosses. Do you have a specific vision for your work that energizes you, and that you use to energize and inspire your team? How often do people leave your team to accept a bigger offer elsewhere?

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Energy Manager 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s not uncommon for managers to continue thinking about their job, even after the official workday is over. This may involve ruminating about an issue with an employee, trying to think of a solution to a client problem, or creating a mental to-do list for the next day. But new research shows that this tendency may not be beneficial, particularly for people new to a leadership role.

Manager 145

Manager Leadership Development 145

Michael Hyatt

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s New Year’s Day. And if you haven’t already set some New Year’s Resolutions while staying up too late last night, you’ll probably find yourself thinking about the next twelve months sometime today. And if you’re not careful, you’re bound to fall into one of these common traps. Trap 1: Letting Shame Chart Your Course […] The post Big Mistakes To Avoid Today appeared first on Full Focus.

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Peter Winick

JANUARY 4, 2024

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage. Here’s the thought that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: Are you in the question business or are you in the answer business? What do I mean by this? There are situations and scenarios that we play in as experts, as thought leaders, where we’re in the question business.

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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.

Benefits

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you want to delight your customers, then the book by Steve Curtin , Delight Your Customers -- 7 Simple Ways to Raise Your Customer Service from Ordinary to Extraordinary , is a must-read for you and your employees. The book explains the seven ways for you and your employees to demonstrate exceptional customer service : Express genuine interest Offer sincere and specific compliments Share unique knowledge Convey authentic enthusiasm Use appropriate humor Provide pleasant surprises Deliver serv

Hospitality 101

Hospitality Energy Manager 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

It is certainly important for people in some jobs to feel safe to speak up, make mistakes, take risks, or ask for help. They include jobs that involve creativity, learning, and exploration. But five studies of workers in a variety of frontline jobs found that more is not always more when it comes to psychological safety. Previous research had focused only on the average effects, which, of course, are made up of high scores and low scores.

Manager 145

Manager 145

AIHR

JANUARY 5, 2024

The HR department carries out some of the most critical roles in any organization, from sourcing candidates and hiring top talent to using data and analytics to make key business decisions. Over the past few decades, the role of HR has greatly evolved and continues to change in line with advances in technology and noticeable shifts in the world of work.

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Human Resources Compensation Organizational Development Compliance 98

Niagara Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jack Welch once said, “Set stretch goals. Don’t settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch goals is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.” Is it really that straightforward, though?

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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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