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When Your Manager Is Ineffective — and You Feel Stuck

Harvard Business Review

Navigating a relationship with a manager you perceive as ineffective or unqualified can be daunting, but it can also be a catalyst for growth. If, after having a honest conversation with yourself and your manager, you still believe they’re the core issue, it might be time to move on.

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Ask a Manager in the media

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here’s some coverage of Ask a Manager in the media recently: I talked to Vanity Fair about how human you should be in your out-of-office message. Bloomberg cited Ask a Manager in a piece about election stress in the workplace.

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A Toolkit to Help You Manage Uncertainty Around AI

Harvard Business Review

Uncertainty around AI takes different shapes and forms, but we can boil it down to three main categories that every manager should consider: state, effect and response uncertainty. State uncertainty occurs when managers lack sufficient information to predict market trends and changes.

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4 Reasons Why Managers Fail

Harvard Business Review

Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports.

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Beyond the Check-in: Building Trust and Performance Through Powerful 1:1s

Speaker: Alex Seale, Kjerstin Greene, and Holly McIlwain

Nearly half of direct reports rate their 1:1s with their managers as suboptimal, according to Harvard Business Review research. We’ll cover: The importance of the manager-employee check-in. Feeling like your one-on-one meetings are just going through the motions? Unfortunately, a majority of 1:1s fall under the ineffective category.

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8 Steal-Worthy Management Tips You Need to Manage Best

Lolly Daskal

Effective management is an art that requires not just knowledge and experience, but also the ability to adapt and apply best practices in various situations. A staggering 82% of managers are said to be lacking in the necessary leadership skills, according to a study by Gallup. Lead with Emotional Intelligence: Empathy goes a long way.

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Managing Irritating People

Leadership Freak

Managing Irritating People Irritating people are everywhere because everyone is messy. Some more than others. We wish that “pain in the neck” employee would go away. What will it take for us to have a positive attitude about messy people?

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

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

We’ll discuss: 🔁 How to shift from traditional practices, such as performance management, to new ways of enabling performance with continuous feedback, recognition, and growth. 💡 Discover practical tips to empower managers and build high-performing teams.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

It will also provide you with resources for making compliance more manageable. The goal of this webinar is to make you smarter in knowing what you should be focused on and the questions you should be asking.

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Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

Speaker: Kjerstin Greene and Adri Glover

HR teams can be small and mighty, but it requires smart tactics to scale your reach.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement. Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization?

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships! Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? Register today to save your seat!

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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. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.