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Tips, Tricks, and Advice for Elevating Thought Leadership | Robert Glazer

Peter Winick

Discovering the strategy, tone, and modality for thought leadership. An interview with Robert Glazer about how he develops content, cultivates an audience, and pushes beyond limits! You can find an audience for your thought leadership on almost any social media platform. Time is the ultimate commodity – so, how do you break through the noise to get your audience’s attention?

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How to Get the Honest Input You Need from Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

Leaders often struggle to get complete, unfiltered information from the people around them. This wealth of unspoken information represents a great untapped resource for today’s leaders, and yet most remain at a loss for how to reliably access it. Common tactics for overcoming this problem, such as taking another’s perspective or reading their body language, simply aren’t sufficient.

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Why Every Top Leader Needs a Succession Plan

Lolly Daskal

Succession planning is crucial for any organization, but it is especially important for top leaders. A well-crafted succession plan can ensure a smooth transition of power, minimize disruptions, and preserve the organization’s legacy. Here are some reasons why every top leader needs a succession plan and what key elements should be included in a successful plan: The Importance of Continuity: The most effective leaders understand that continuity is essential for the long-term success of an

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5 Ways to Love Work

Leadership Freak

How can you love work when tomorrow’s storm giggles behind the door? Challenges are unending. Let's stop pretending that hard work is easy. Here are 5 ways to love work.

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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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Spotting Ideas with the Potential for Scale | Ward Kampf

Peter Winick

Matching content with context to get the most out of your ideas. An interview with Ward Kampf about vision, strategy, and execution for taking ideas to scale. Can you spot a good idea? And when you do, how do you successfully find its best audience? These are just two questions we examine with today’s guest, Ward Kampf. Ward is the President of Northwood Retail, which leases, manages, and markets a portfolio of over five million square feet of mixed use and community properties.

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When Analytics Should Drive Sales Decisions — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business Review

As AI proliferates, companies are using it to offer data-driven recommendations on a wide range of activities, from whom to hire to what product a salesperson should recommend to customers. How much to rely on these data-driven recommendations should hinge on two questions: How high are the decision stakes? And how reliable is the data-driven insight?

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Preparing for 2024: Is Your Marketing Funnel Integrated with Your Sales Funnel?

Chief Outsiders

Final article of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen In the relentless pursuit of growth, businesses often find themselves at a crossroads - a bustling marketing funnel generating a stream of leads, yet somehow, the path to conversion seems elusive. One study found that 71% of potential customers are not contacted, while only 13% of potential customers become opportunities.

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How to Leverage Weaknesses

Leadership Freak

What if your weaknesses revealed potential strengths? 1. Blunt – honesty. 2. Rigid – discipline. 3. Picky – analytical. 4. Indecisive – flexibility. How can you find strength in weakness? More.

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6 Kinds of Board Members — and How to Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

Boards are not monolithic. They often are composed of people with different kinds of personalities. This article describes six types: the narcissist, the data chaser, the deferential, the status hound, the unprepared, and the stakeholder champion. It offers tactics for influencing each.

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Communication Matters: How to Effectively Talk to Your Team

Lolly Daskal

Effective communication is the key to running a successful and profitable business with minimal drama. As a leader, understanding your communication style and the styles of those around you is crucial for building trust and creating a culture of talking and listening within your team. We will explore the four main types of communication styles: passive, aggressive, passive aggressive, and assertive.

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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 Allocate Your Marketing Spend for Maximum Effect

Chief Outsiders

Article 6 of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen In a marketplace that's more competitive than ever, optimizing your marketing spend isn't just a best practice—it's a necessity for survival and accelerated growth. With shrinking resources and an ever-more diverse array of marketing platforms upon which to reach the customer, shooting arrows in the dark is no longer a viable marketing strategy.

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Don’t Rush to Set Personal Goals for 2024

Leadership Freak

It’s a waste of time to set personal goals before you define personal success. Before you set personal goals for the new year: 1. Define personal success. 2. Choose goals that affirm who you are. 3. Choose goals that express who you aspire to become. More.

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Are You a “Bottleneck Boss”?

Harvard Business Review

More often than not, a firm that’s losing great employees year after year is being negatively affected by a leader’s bottleneck-style behaviors. These leaders don’t think they’re bottlenecks, but they’re often standing in the way of high-potential employees’ progress. To remove these bottlenecks in businesses, the author outlines the signs of a bottleneck leader and three strategies to delegate responsibilities and allow high-potential employees to take on more ownership: 1) Figure out who your

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Do you have your team members write self-appraisals and use those as a basis for the review you write?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Do you have your team members write self-appraisals and use those as a basis for the review you write? Yes 73.64% No 15.46% We don’t write performance appraisals 10.90% Write it yourself. If you have the opportunity to write your own self appraisal (and based on the poll results, it looks like most people do), there are a few tips for getting the appraisal you want and deserve.

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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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Why All Business Leaders Should Avoid New Year’s Resolutions

Lolly Daskal

As the clock ticks down to the new year, my clients flood me with their grand plans for change. Yet year after year, these resolutions fall by the wayside. As an executive leadership coach, I firmly believe that all business leaders should avoid the trap of New Year’s resolutions altogether. The truth is, these well-intentioned promises are too often nothing more than empty words that fail to deliver real results.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Developing an HR Strategic Plan

AIHR

An HR strategic plan solidifies and documents your HR strategy. For the entire organization to engage with the HR strategy, they must understand how it’s being played out. An HR strategic plan turns your HR strategy from an abstract concept into a concrete road map for HR and organizational success. This article discusses what an HR strategic plan is, why you need one, and how to create one.

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Research: Is Moving Internationally for a Job a Smart Move?

Harvard Business Review

Many MBA graduates consider moving internationally for their careers. But beyond the opportunities for personal and professional enrichment and the challenges of adjusting to new environments, what are the implications for their careers over the longer term — and especially for their compensation? To find out, the authors conducted a study of the career histories of MBA graduates from a leading European business school.

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Start Building Your Leadership Fitness Today

Thought Leaders LLC

Leadership is an endurance activity. Achieving peak leadership fitness requires self-awareness, goal setting, following a game plan, and overcoming challenges. Today’s post is by Timothy Tobin, author of Peak Leadership Fitness (CLICK HERE to get your copy). As an endurance athlete and someone who has devoted his professional career to leadership development, I have realized some amazing parallels between physical fitness and leadership fitness.

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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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4 Obvious Signs Your Leadership Needs a Reboot

Lolly Daskal

Leadership is a vital aspect of any organization, and it is essential for leaders to continuously assess and improve their skills to ensure the success of their team. However, even the best leaders can fall into bad habits or become complacent, leading to a decline in their leadership effectiveness. Here are four obvious signs that indicate your leadership needs a reboot: Lack of direction and vision: As a leader, it is essential to have a clear vision for the future and to communicate that visi

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10 Strategies For A Creative Company Culture With Examples You Need To Know

Vantage Circle

Creativity is intelligence having fun. - Albert Einstein Behind every successful company lies a secret ingredient: a creative company culture that fosters innovation and empowers its employees to think outside the box. Imagine a workspace that transcends the confines of cubicles. A place where people passionately build the future together because they love what they get to do every day.

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How Banks Can Stay Resilient As AI Becomes More Disruptive

Harvard Business Review

Historically, disruption is extremely rare. Only 23 of the 568 companies included in the Fortune 500 since 1997 were under 15 years old when they entered. But right now, there are three forces converging that might transform finance and other industries. The first is the explosive growth of AI. The second is a massive migration of tech talent from big finance to big tech.

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How To Be A More Human Leader

Eric Jacobson

“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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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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What Is a Training Matrix? (Plus 7 Steps To Using One) 

AIHR

In the face of accelerated change, a well-designed training matrix acts as a company’s shield, empowering HR professionals to anticipate skill gaps, prioritize training, deliver personalized interventions, encourage continuous learning, and align with strategic business goals. In fact, companies that offer training programs experience 53% lower attrition rates.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Michael McKinney

B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture. Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive.

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Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home

Harvard Business Review

There is a large and growing divide in terms of who gets to work from home. Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more education. Managers should be aware of this divide, as it has the potential to create toxic dynamics within teams and to sap morale.

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How Leaders Build Trust

Eric Jacobson

You can't lead if your employees, team or followers don't trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips , recommended by author Susan H.

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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.

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5 Ways to Think for Yourself

Leadership Freak

You can't think for yourself when you’re worried about what others think. 1. Don't rush to research. 2. Consider how others could be right. 3. Reflect on who you're making happy. More.

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16 healthy habits you can start this week

BetterUp

Jump to section 6 healthy habits to adopt Eat nutrient-rich foods Ditch the cigarettes Sleep well Drink less alcohol, drink more water Get regular exercise Practice self-care and self-compassion 3 ways to start building healthy habits The beginning of a new year is often a time for reflection. It’s a time to deeply examine your own habits and identify ways you can make changes for the better.

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The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now. Once a company understands its present situation, it can chart a path to creating a truly differentiated offering that can create economic value.

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How To Manage People: 10 Things NOT to Do

Niagara Institute

You’ve recently received a promotion to a people management role - congratulations! However, as you soon found, managing people requires different skills than what is needed to excel as an individual contributor. Anyone can take on a new title and delegate tasks , but there is much more to being an effective manager than that.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.