Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

Whether initiated by strategic realignment, leadership changes, or market demands, departmental transitions test a leader’s mettle. In this article, the authors offer four strategies to guide your team through a departmental transition while maintaining morale, productivity, and cohesion: 1) Communicate the “why” clearly and authentically. 2) Acknowledge the emotional impact. 3) Cultivate ownership and involvement. 4) Prepare your team for future changes.

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Marketing Organizational Change Manager 112

AIHR

MAY 13, 2024

More than 80% of companies agree that Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) positively impact their organizations. OKRs set ambitious goals, while Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide measurable metrics to track progress, creating a powerful framework for aligning strategy with execution. Achieving synergy between the two drives organizational success.

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KPI Metrics Benchmarking Employee Engagement 103

Lolly Daskal

MAY 13, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I am deeply aware of the critical role that leadership plays in shaping the well-being and success of a team. Ensuring that your team not only survives but thrives is a responsibility that leaders must embrace wholeheartedly. To guarantee that your team is not just surviving but flourishing apply these four strategies, so you can create an environment where your team members are motivated, engaged, and thriving: Foster Open and Transparent Communication: Open a

Employee Engagement 101

Employee Engagement Leadership Development Manager 101

Alison Green

MAY 13, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in a medium-sized location of a small-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things business as one of the upper managers on site. The site manager recently asked me to keep an idea on the books for sometime later this year: to do a donation drive with manager names on donation boxes.

Performance Review 100

Performance Review Manager 100

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? 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? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

Benefits

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

When employees collaborate across silos, there are numerous benefits for organizations. But the employees who do this critical work — also known as boundary spanners or network brokers — may end up overwhelmed, burned out, and can even develop abusive behavior toward their fellow employees. Research shows why this can happen, and suggests three key strategies companies can use to mitigate any negative effects: strategically integrating cross-silo collaboration into formal roles, providing adequa

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Benefits Manager 94

Thought Leaders LLC

MAY 13, 2024

Breakthrough leadership is about seizing the WOO – Window of Opportunity. Leaders can only seize the WOO to build their team by being fully present. Today’s guest post is b y Brian Biro, author of Lessons from the Legends: New Applications from the Timeless Wisdom of John Wooden and Pat Summitt. Is it possible that your life, relationships, health, and business can flourish as never before, despite even the most difficult circumstances?

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 13, 2024

Today brings a new book I wish was published back when I was early in my career. It’s called, Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships. It’s one of four books in the new Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) Work Smart Series. The book includes adapted content from 20 articles that previously appeared on HBR.org. “We probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else.

Media 89

Media Manager 89

Viima

MAY 13, 2024

In a world dominated by uncertainty, how can we prepare for the unpredictable and keep innovating in what seems like a highly chaotic environment? We simply need to be faster in adapting to change and navigating uncertainty. Studies show that organizations that move faster achieve significantly better results across various metrics, including profitability, operational resilience, organizational health, and growth.

Metrics 85

Metrics Operations Manager 85

Alison Green

MAY 13, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve run my own business for nine years, and I’ve found financial comfort and fulfillment in my work. This did not come easy. I was barely scraping by the first couple of years. Not anymore. I don’t have to hustle. I have built rapport and trust with steady, well-paying clients who respect my expertise.

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Manager 83

Leadership Freak

MAY 13, 2024

A leader writes that she's running out of steam. Leadership doesn't take action on well-presented ideas. Here are some ideas for moving the agenda forward. Practice forward-facing vulnerability. Defensiveness makes you talk too much. Play small ball. And we do what we do because it's who we are. More.

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Leadership Development 82

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? 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.

Change Management

David Grossman

MAY 13, 2024

Amid all the constant changes in business today, signs of burnout are everywhere in the workforce. As the economy continues to rebound and employee mobility grows, burnout is a double-edged sword wreaking havoc for organizations, with many employees feeling checked out or looking to leave their jobs. Those who remain are left with picking up the pieces, and that aftermath can cause stress and strain on them as well.

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Manager Employee Engagement 58

Vantage Circle

MAY 13, 2024

Introduction Avec l'essor du travail à distance, le besoin d'outils collaboratifs en entreprise solides monte en flèche. Ce blog explore une variété d'options conçues pour combler le fossé entre la distance et la productivité des équipes distantes. Nous découvrirons des outils essentiels pour une communication fluide, la gestion de projet et un travail d'équipe efficace.

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Diversity Travel Administration 52

LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy? Companies that have a tight match between their strategy and the capabilities of their people outperform their peers. Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship be

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SaaS Digital Transformation Sales Sales 36

BetterUp

MAY 13, 2024

Jump to section What is empathic listening?

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

Engineering

Peter Winick

MAY 13, 2024

Science, Space, and Why It’s Not So Simple to Build a Colony on Mars A conversation with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about the reasons, research, and humor that went into writing their book. In this episode of the Thought Leadership Leverage podcast, host Bill Sherman dives into the realities of space settlement with Kelly Weinersmith, biologist and adjunct assistant professor at Rice University, and Zach Weinersmith, comic artist and author.

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Engineering Government Scaling Operations 294

15Five

MAY 13, 2024

What Is an Employee Performance Review? Touching base. Checking in. Looking forward. These are all terms that should describe the ideal employee performance review. Best case scenario? A manager accurately communicates an employee’s performance in a way that encourages them to improve on their weaknesses while having a better sense of how they can rely on their strengths.

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Performance Review Compensation Manager Workflows 71

Michael McKinney

MAY 13, 2024

T HE GOAL of any communication is to connect. Some people are supercommunicators. That is, as they talk, they align with the person they are speaking with, constantly adjusting how they communicated in order to match their companions. In Supercommunicators , Charles Duhigg explores how we communicate and connect. He explains why our communication sometimes goes awry and what we can do to make it better.

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Energy 96

Alison Green

MAY 13, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I walked in on two managers in a compromising position I am a newly hired manager. Today I was asked to visit a storage building to pick up some items for staff. I arrived at the building and noticed two other managers’ cars.

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Manager Deliverables Nonprofit Assets 87

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

Compliance

Peter Winick

MAY 13, 2024

Source: SPOS #931 – Peter Winick Debates Mitch Joel On The Art And Business Of Thought Leadership Peter Winick joins Mitch Joel at Six Pixels of Separation to talk about the business of thought leadership! Information below provided by Six Pixels of Separation. “Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #931. What is a thought leader?

B2B 130

B2B Metrics Media Marketing 130

Alison Green

MAY 13, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week we talked about the best, worst, and weirdest office decor you’ve seen. Here are 15 great stories you shared. 1. The dolls One of the managers in my former job had a massive full-wall bookshelf of baby dolls in her office. They were all dressed sharply in frilly dresses and so forth.

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Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Advertising 98