2022

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Work-Life Flexibility Is a Challenge Up and Down the Pay Scale

AOM

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How the Best Leaders Get Themselves Back on Track

Lolly Daskal

Every leader, whether their title is boss, manager, supervisor, or coach, has a lot going on. And even the most skilled leaders sometimes find they’ve gone off the rails—sometimes in small ways, sometimes disastrously. It’s important to have a plan for what to do when things start to fall apart. Here’s what I tell the leaders I coach about getting back on track: Acknowledge what’s happening.

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Leader as Shock Absorber

Ed Batista

One of a leader's most important functions is serving as a shock absorber , soaking up forces generated by one part of the organization (or from outside the organization) and distributing them elsewhere, and doing so in such a way that the entire system operates more effectively. This is a simple metaphor, but it has some implications that are worth making explicit: A shock absorber cushions the blow--it doesn't prevent the flow of force.

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3 Times Employee Communication Is Essential

David Grossman

Communication is more than a “feel good” part of any organization. The business world, the real world, employees’ worlds—all are continuing to change at an accelerated pace, leaving communicators and leaders with the daunting challenge of keeping employees focused, committed and engaged. Knowing When to Communicate. Establishing a strong system of communication with employees is crucial on several levels, ranging from major company shifts to day-to-day interaction.

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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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Four questions to ask yourself when faced with a big decision

Suzi McAlpine

Not long ago, I was coaching a leader who was faced with a big decision he had to make. The decision had huge implications not only for the organisation – but also, if he was honest, for himself. The stakes were high. The pressure palpable. And he was in a pickle. Stucksville. So, when he… The post Four questions to ask yourself when faced with a big decision first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Seeking Higher Ground? How Your Company Can Embody Purpose

Chief Outsiders

By: Rich DePencier and Philippe Harousseau. I’m sure many of you read with intrigue recently when Yvon Chouinard, CEO of the revered outdoors company Patagonia, signaled that he was “giving away” his company – essentially, donating the value of his ownership interest to charity. Though this is a rather extreme example of corporate philanthropy at work, the lesson regarding purpose is especially relevant in these days of corporate transparency.

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Going from Zero to Hero

Mark Sandborn

My antivirus software license had expired and the company emailed me to let me know. The email said I could renew and upgrade my software online. While I was downloading the upgrade, the process froze my computer. I couldn’t get it restarted correctly. I couldn’t get is started at all. My computer formerly working well was now incapacitated by a software upgrade for which I’d paid.

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Customer Success: What It Means, Why It Matters, and More

Help Scout Leadership

Customer success boosts lifetime customer value, creates stickier customers, and even provides deeply helpful product insights. Here’s our guide on how to do it well.

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Demystifying ghostwriters and their work in publishing | Jesse Finkelstein & Dan Gerstein

Peter Winick

Understanding what ghostwriters do and investigating the various options for publishing. An interview with Jesse Finkelstein & Dan Gerstein that originally aired on October 21st, 2021 as part of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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A New Year – A New Focus

Leadership Freak

An unfocused life goes in circles. Focus – in the new year – matters because you go where you look. Focus determines direction. The problem, bad is magnetic.

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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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The Bright Side of Not Getting That Promotion

AOM

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Year-End Checklist for Leaders: Achieving Success in the New Year

Lolly Daskal

At the end of each year, leaders can use a checklist to reflect on their leadership style, assess their team’s performance, set goals, and make changes to continue developing and growing. By taking the time to reflect and plan, leaders can position themselves and their team for ongoing success. Here are some things to include in your year-end checklist: Assess leadership style: Reflect on your own leadership style and approach, and identify areas for personal growth and development.

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Whether or Not to Fix a Broken Relationship

Ed Batista

A theme in my practice is the leader who's struggling to repair a damaged working relationship with an employee. In most cases we start with the assumption that a better relationship is possible and that even a long-running conflict can be resolved. This usually entails the following steps in some form: Having both parties engage in an ongoing dialogue about the relationship.

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Drive Business Results with Communication Planning

David Grossman

When the pandemic began, organizational leaders were forced to communicate in new ways, focusing on what was essential. Now, as we move to new realities, it continues to be important to stay focused and thoughtfully plan communications. Planning communications is often the key to employees having the information and context they need to help an organization or team achieve its vision and goals.

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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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3 common myths of coaching (and what’s true instead)

Suzi McAlpine

Coaching is a leadership superpower. Coaching saves you time. It helps you delegate. It improves performance, builds capability and helps tap into everyone’s creative process. It’s also pretty good for organisational performance. A comprehensive study on the effects of an organisation adopting a ‘coaching culture’ showed some startling results. Coaching led to: A 10 to 20%… The post 3 common myths of coaching (and what’s true instead) first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership

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CEO Go-To-Market Warning: Avoid the Blind Spots That Cause Products to Miss the Mark

Chief Outsiders

Part 1: Avoiding the Dust Bin Requires an Insights-Driven Approach. Have you ever heard of the Apple Pippin or the Twitter Peek? Played a game of TowerFall on the Ouya Console? Taken an important call on your Amazon Fire Phone? If so, you are among the rarest of the rare – the chosen few who took the calculated risk of trying a new product during its brief run on earth.

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How to Jumpstart a Stuck Project

Michael Hyatt

Have you ever been stuck on an important project? You have a big idea, you know it’ll be great for your business or personal life, but you can’t get moving? Yeah, happens to me all the time, too. Missing our goals isn’t a great feeling. As we approach the end of the year, it’s natural […]. The post How to Jumpstart a Stuck Project appeared first on Full Focus.

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4 Exercises that Will Make You a Better Speaker

Mark Sandborn

You can read three books on riding a bicycle, but until you put your feet on the pedals you won’t start learning to ride. You can gain knowledge about speaking from reading books and watching seminars, but you ultimately learn to present better by presenting more often. Here are four exercises that help you improve your speaking: 1. Analyze Others.

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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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SaaS Customer Success: Key Roles, Strategies, and Tools

Help Scout Leadership

One of the best steps any SaaS company can take to improve customer retention is an investment in customer success.

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Moving from Corporate to Entrepreneur | Jennie Blumenthal

Peter Winick

How to successfully transition from a corporate role to your own business. An interview with Jennie Blumenthal about how she is helping women move from the corporate space into their own businesses. Most people think that once you’ve hit the big role at your company, it’s smooth sailing. The reality is far different. C-suite positions often have hardships, and many executives deal with a lot of stress and difficulty in their job.

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10 Dos and 7 Don’ts for Mentoring Millennials

Leadership Freak

Meaningful work is part of meaningful living for people ages 26 to 41*. Mentoring Millennials is changing lives, not simply equipping workers.

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Virtual Work Offers Pros and Cons for Women’s Careers

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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 Putting Profit Over People is Always Bad for Your Company

Lolly Daskal

There’s a single point I make throughout my work in executive coaching, speaking, and writing: people are the most important asset of any business. Most people agree, at least on the surface. But too few are willing to carry out that principle in policies and day-to-day management. I recently conducted a study of my clients with for-profit businesses and found that most understand the importance of people but still put profits first.

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The Problem with Fighting Fires

Ed Batista

The problem isn't that you're too busy. You are too busy, but that's not the problem. If you view being busy as the problem, there is no solution. You will always be too busy, and that will never change. As Andy Grove once noted: "A manager's work is never done. There is always more to be done, more that should be done, always more than can be done.".

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Creating Useful Vision and Mission Statements

David Grossman

As we emerge from the tumult of the past two years, individuals and organizations are charting how the future will be shaped and look. More and more, we are seeing individuals evaluating how work fits into their lives rather than vice versa. Likewise, they are taking a very hard look at whether an organization’s values align with their own. Choices about staying at, going to or joining an organization are being driven by these reflections.

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Are you operating in your sweet spot?

Suzi McAlpine

We feel more positive about our work when we can use our strengths to do it. When we work from our strengths, we feel energised, it increases our emotional fulfilment, and in essence, we feel strong. Strengths are where what we enjoy doing and what we’re good at meet. I’m sometimes surprised at how… The post Are you operating in your sweet spot?

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

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

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Navigating Growth During the Economic Sugar Crash

Chief Outsiders

Everyone “knows” we’re in a recession except the economists. We feel the pain of collapsed 401k's, higher fuel and food prices, so isn’t that enough to declare a recession? And shouldn’t my business be hunkering down to ride this out? In today’s chaotic economy, we are more likely to react to news headlines and stock market trends than market insight.

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4 Reasons Company Culture Is Essential

Michael Hyatt

While weak leaders blame their followers for a lack of alignment, strong leaders know that it is their responsibility to create it. Alignment doesn’t just happen. It is created. Here are three ways to make it happen with your team. The post 4 Reasons Company Culture Is Essential appeared first on Full Focus.

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Create Your Best Presentation: the 10 MiM Exercise

Mark Sandborn

Ashley is a young woman with an impressive past of overcoming difficulties and circumstances. She’s been speaking on behalf of a well know youth organization and wants to transition to becoming a speaker in her own right. She asked me how to make that shift. There are a number of factors in becoming a successful speaker. Whether you speak as part of your job, part or full-time professionally or simply as a platform to share your ideas, it is essential to identify your most important messag

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How to Deal with Difficult Customers

Help Scout Leadership

Every support person needs to know how to deal with difficult customers. Read about different types of difficult customers and the best ways to help them.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.