Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.

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Manager 121

Alison Green

APRIL 3, 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. Coworker says she loves shoplifting I’ve been angsting over a coworker interaction that I just let go by. I am the oldest and most domesticated person in my workplace, but I try hard not to give off “work mom” vibes.

Benefits 102

Benefits Manager Insurance Education 102

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.

Government 119

Government Marketing 119

Alison Green

APRIL 3, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My father keeps responding to my employee’s political posts on Facebook. My father is very conservative and my employee is very liberal, so you can guess that their opinions go together like oil and water. I feel that it is inappropriate for my father to be interacting with someone I supervise, and I asked him to stop.

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Manager 101

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

APRIL 3, 2024

While gig work has offered workers benefits like flexibility, it has also come at the expense of lower pay, limited protections, surveillance, and limited privacy. Tactics such as petitions and boycotts have been used to effect change for workers in the traditional economy, but these have proven far less effective in the gig economy. To explore why, the authors use sociologist Robin Leidner’s concept of the customer service triangle to illustrate the ways that workers, companies, and customers a

Benefits 105

Benefits 105

Lolly Daskal

APRIL 3, 2024

The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. In this blog post, we will explore seven powerful examples of common CEO mistakes and the valuable lessons that can be learned from them.

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Diversity Inclusion Employee Engagement Leadership Development 94

Alison Green

APRIL 3, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I know it’s strange to complain that my boss praises me too much — but she does, and it’s getting on my nerves! Just for completing fairly basic tasks, she’ll say “You’re crushing it!!” or “So grateful for you!!” I feel like there’s a cheerleader waving pom-poms in my face, or maybe some amped-up Peloton instructor screaming encouragement.

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Benefits Manager 87

Thought Leaders LLC

APRIL 3, 2024

Learn how to identify distractions and focus your team on the most strategically important initiatives for your organization. In a fast paced world, there is no shortage of distractions. Side projects, interesting new ideas, and the crisis of the day can divert resources from key strategic initiatives. In isolation, pursuing these small ideas make sense, but when you put them in the broader context of your strategic initiatives, you get to see exactly how nonstrategic these distractions are.

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Kellogg Insight

APRIL 3, 2024

Generative AI is like “a hammer looking for a nail.” On this episode of The Insightful Leader: we have to decide what the nail should be.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 3, 2024

Culture is mortar, not bricks. Culture building is laying a bed of mortar on bricks. Culture binds people together. Culture is expressed by the way people treat each other while they do the work. This post explains the foundation of culture building.

Organizational Development 84

Organizational Development Leadership Development 84

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

Ascend

APRIL 3, 2024

At the end of the day, what are a few simple, clear key business metrics that will make you feel really good about the progress you made this year?

Metrics 73

Metrics 73

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.

Engineering 72

Engineering Operations Manager 72

Alison Green

APRIL 3, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My boss keeps bringing her sick child to work because she can’t send them to school or daycare since they won’t accept sick children. While I understand that it’s hard to find someone to look after them, especially when both parents are working, I get sick every time I’m at work with the sick kid around.

Education 84

Education Manager 84

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.

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Manager 85

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

AIHR

APRIL 3, 2024

In an unpredictable labor market, recruitment has become a two-way street, and more organizations than ever before are looking to improve the candidate experience. However, a study by Morgan McKinley found that 65% of companies lost out on their best candidates because of lengthy hiring procedures, while PeopleScout’s research shows that less than 2 in 10 candidates rate their candidate experience as excellent.

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Recruitment Onboarding Revenue Marketing 87