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Breaking the Stigma: Mental Health in the Professional World | Stephen J. Dietrich

Peter Winick

The Fear Factor in Thought Leadership Can vulnerability drive business success? Corporate attorney Stephen Dietrich shares how tackling fear and anxiety transformed his personal life and skyrocketed his professional growth. In this episode, he and Peter Winick explore the power of emotional openness to build trust, deepen relationships, and achieve exceptional outcomes.

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Think This, Not That

Michael McKinney

O UR mindset can either work for us or against us. A mind full of false narrativesfalse beliefswill keep us from growing into our potential. Unchallenged, these negative beliefs will become the soundtrack we live by and keep us from moving in the direction of our best selves and change the outcome of our lives. Josh Axe identifies in Think This, Not That twelve mental barriers that obstruct personal growth and hinder success.

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I Thought I Knew How to Listen—Then I Learned Radical Listening

Leadership Freak

Radical listening is the heart of leadership. How many aspects of leadership are made worse by listening? Not many. Ive been learning to listen all my life. If you think listening is easy, you arent doing it.

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Asking Better Open-Ended Questions: A Leader's Guide

David Grossman

In the fast-paced world of work we all live in now, one of the most understandable and common mistakes all employees make is simply not asking the right kinds of questions.

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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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potential employer wants me to disclose any medical conditions, including migraines, depression, eczema, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently interviewed for an admin role, essentially front reception, for a private hospital. The job is entirely non-clinical. After the interview, the hiring manager emailed me to say that they would like to progress my application to the next stage. In the email they included a link for me to complete some pre-employment checks.

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3 Rules of the Road: Business Lessons from our Airstream Adventures

AlignOrg

Have you ever broken your foot in three places three days into a 70-day road trip? I have. And that was just the beginning of our Newfoundland Airstream adventure. Picture this: 1,400 miles to go before the Newfoundland caravan even started , a rapidly swelling foot, and the daunting task of finding an orthopedic surgeon inwell, pretty much any of the eight states we were driving through to get to our caravan meet-up point in Nova Scotia.

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Free Employee Scheduling Software: The Top 10 in 2025!

Vantage Circle

Introduction Finding reliable free employee scheduling software can feel like a challenge. Don't you agree many tools fall short with limited features like shift swaps, time-off tracking, or payroll integration? Moreover, outdated designs and user caps only add to the frustration. But there’s good news—the ideal solution does exist.

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Mistakes When Designing Core Values: The Top 10

LSA Global

Mistakes When Designing Core Values Company values often adorn the walls of offices or feature prominently on corporate websites, but turning those words into meaningful team norms can be a significant challenge. Too many companies make mistakes when designing core values. These common mistakes lead to ineffective and watered down platitudes that fail to create the strategically aligned and differentiated behaviors required for values to mean something to the business and the people in the busin

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Help Scout Classes: Learning to Educate at Scale

Help Scout Leadership

Learn how Help Scout scaled to meet the educational needs of new, old, and prospective customers alike by turning one on one demo sessions into interactive live classes.

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A CEO’s Guide to Marketing Performance | Metrics Matter

Chief Outsiders

Part 2 of A CEO's Guide to Marketing Performance Metrics matter now more than ever. As a six-time CMO over a 16-year career, Ive tracked dozens (actually hundreds) of metrics and found that many measures are ultimately meaningless or only matter to marketers.

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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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Do your goals have the appropriate constraints attached to them?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: In the world of business, particularly in the world of thought leadership, keynote speakers, experts, advisors, etc., there’s a lot of energy focused on setting goals and achieving goals.

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619 | How to Spot and Stop Sabotaging Behavior in Your Leadership Team

Chris LoCutro

If you’re leading a team, you need to be aware of one critical threat: sabotaging behavior. If left unchecked, it can destroy team dynamics, create dysfunction, and completely derail your progress. This episode of The Chris LoCurto Show dives deep into how to recognize and stop these behaviors before they wreak havoc on your leadership team. The first thing you need to do?

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4 Secrets of Achievement

Leadership Freak

If dreaming worked, youd already be there. I bet youre already working hard. Here are four secrets to achievement people often miss. #1. Find the problem youre built to solve. People who achieve success create and drive solutions. Who are you trying to help? How? More.

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The 5 Ws and H Guide to Communicating Virtually Anything

David Grossman

Learn how to use 5 Ws and H to capture important perspective, share all-important content, and make it relevant for your audience when communicating virtually anything.

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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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boss says it’s unacceptable not to meet all deadlines, no matter how unreasonable

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I started a job eight months ago that I was very excited about. I was looking to get out of a highly stressful position and got this offer (same pay, somewhat worse benefits but growth potential) and what I thought would be a solid work-life balance. The first day, my boss mentioned how we typically end at 4:30.

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How to Find the Root Causes of Your Problems

Thought Leaders LLC

Understanding the real cause of your problem and considering the consequences of potential solutions can help you make better decisions. The final thing you should think about as you’re trying to define your problem is causality. I’ve mentioned thinking about causes and consequences. That applies to thinking through how you’re going to define the problem in the first place.

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Why Business Leaders Should Think Like A Venture Capitalist

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book, The Venture Mindset , is all about how to make smarter bets and achieve extraordinary growth. The authors, Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang , explain that if any company wants to win big in competitive times, they need to think differently. They need to think like a venture capitalist (VC). This book teaches you to spot new opportunities, nurture the right talent, foster a culture of innovation, and take calculated risks, say Strebulaev and Dang.

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Scoring Big with Systems Thinking

AlignOrg

For me, growing up immersed in sports has always been a rollercoaster of emotionsmoments of elation and despair that mirror the highs and lows felt by countless others. Our favorite teams have a remarkable ability to stir deep emotions. We engage in daily conversations about how our teams could improve, emphasizing their problems and providing our perspective on how they could achieve better results.

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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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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations. However, crafting a corporate strategy is only half the battle; ensuring it resonates as believable and achievable to your key stakeholders is where many organizations falter.

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Leveraging Transferable Skills for a Career Change

Help Scout Leadership

There is always something that made a person great in Job A that could help make them great in Job B. Its just a matter of connecting the dots.

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Tariffs and Your Next Chapter | The 5 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Make Around Tariffs

Chief Outsiders

Tariffs have been around for centuries. Commonly used to protect emerging industries or bolster national security, tariffs have evolved beyond trade tools into economic levers that can shift markets overnight. Tariffs have re-entered the conversation for mid-sized business leaders, especially those with global supply chains or international customer bases.

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AI, Leadership, and the Future: What We Know (and What We Don’t) | Nada Sanders

Peter Winick

The New Rules of Thought Leadership in an AI-Driven Future AI is changing everythingbut no one really knows what the future holds. The best leaders wont be the ones making bold, absolute claims; theyll be the ones embracing uncertainty, adapting quickly, and using AI as a tool rather than a crutch. This episode explores why humility, critical thinking, and human expertise are the keys to leading in a rapidly evolving world.

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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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619 | How to Spot and Stop Sabotaging Behavior in Your Leadership Team

Chris LoCutro

If you’re leading a team, you need to be aware of one critical threat: sabotaging behavior. If left unchecked, it can destroy team dynamics, create dysfunction, and completely derail your progress. This episode of The Chris LoCurto Show dives deep into how to recognize and stop these behaviors before they wreak havoc on your leadership team. The first thing you need to do?

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When Being a “Bad Leader” Is Good

Leadership Freak

You could be a bad leader for doing the right thing! Servant leadership doesnt win popularity contests in authoritarian environments. Showing up as a humble leader in a dysfunctional culture makes you the problem. Here are seven ways to be a "bad leader" in a good way.

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Your All-In-One Culture Audit Guide: What Is It & How to Conduct an Audit

AIHR

Conducting a culture audit can bring significant financial benefits to your organization. Did you know that companies with strong workplace cultures can achieve up to four times higher revenue growth than those with weaker ones? On the flip side, disengaged employees can cost your company around 18% of their annual salary. They contribute less and cost more due to lower productivity, higher absenteeism, and increased turnover.

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the head of the nonprofit I volunteer for doesn’t know what a budget is

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve been doing some remote volunteer grant writing as part of a long-term plan to break out of my current job family (also nonprofit-centric). The nonprofit Im currently working with is only a few years old, in another state, and very small, with no paid staff.

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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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Retention is an Asset

Thought Leaders LLC

Today’s post is by Anil Singhal, author of “The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity.” We live in an age of corporate layoffs. Whenever companies encounter a setback, the inevitable go-to move is to cut overhead. A challenging stock market, a significant customer loss, the retirement of an aging product line?

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The Benefits Of When Everyone Leads

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When Everyone Leads , by Ed OMalley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems, explain the authors.

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The Case for Muting the Boss

Kellogg Insight

When discussing business strategy, leaders should leave room for new voices, who could spur the next big idea.

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Navigating M&A Integration in the Evolving Utilities Sector

Kotter Inc.

As of 2024, the value of announced deals in the industry exceeded $150 billion, nearly double the value through the same period in 2023. M&A is expected to further accelerate in Q1 2025 after the Fed'.

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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.